Author: Sam Clark
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Having paid very close attention to what was recently announced at the most recent Disney Expo, I could not help but a feel a crushing sense that any creativity and originality is all but dead. Pointless cash grabs with nothing but remakes, sequels, prequels, and live-action remakes – the worst of all. How lovely it […]
Hooray! We finally have another Transformers film that is honourable to its source material. Despite their financial success, the occasional moment of impressive spectacle and the 12A certificate, Michael Bay’s films embarrassingly tarnished the brand name with one installment after the other being so spectacularly misjudged in who they were supposed to be aimed at. […]
Film fans living in Newcastle can experience the very best films from the 68th BFI (British Film Institute) London Film Festival at Tyneside Cinema from October 9-20th. Selected venues all across the UK are teaming up with the BFI so that more and more audiences are able to experience what films are on offer. The […]
Francis Ford Coppola is no stranger to a hectic and disastrous film production process. Production on Apocalypse Now became infamous and iconic for just how difficult it became, undoubtedly one of the worst examples in Hollywood history. Coppola now properly returns to the directing chair for the first time in well over a decade (his recent […]
If you cast your mind back to 2019, Joker came bulldozing into the spotlight for various reasons, some good, some bad. It broke box-office records and earned $1 billion dollars on a $65 million dollar budget (the only film to have grossed that much on a budget that low). However, not only did the film […]
A promotional campaign is underway to turn the Tee’s Barrage in Stockton-on-Tees, into a regular, recognisable location used for film and TV productions. Sam Mendes’s World War 1 film 1917 (released in 2019) has become the most well-known production to have used this location. The sequence in the film that the Barrage features in […]
Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle has been in the North East filming his latest film, 28 Years Later, the highly anticipated third instalment in the horror series. Recognisable locations in the film will include Northumberland, Hexham, Waskerley, Lindisfarne, Ripon, Aysgarth Falls and Fountains Abbey, and Melsonby, which have been used to bring the dystopian horror […]
