There are a number of reasons why a movie can flop upon its initial release, maybe the critics took the movie apart and cause viewers to steer clear of the film, maybe the release of the film was on the same week as a catastrophic event, but I think the
It’s no secret that Hollywood re-hashes old ideas and concepts all of the time. Most people are familiar with books being turned into movies, movies turned into video games and cartoons based on those video games, it’s the circle that cannot be unbroken. However, every now and then a movie
Any film lover worth their weight in salt understands that a director can make or break a film. A director leaves their fingerprint on each movie they work on and if that fingerprint is one to be desired, a fan base will be built quickly. Names like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese,
Every year thousands of movies are released. Some of these movies are big hits, some of them are flops and some of them are treasures buried by the over saturated market. It is impossible to watch every single movie that is released and to be honest, even if you were
Launching a film franchise has to be one of the most daunting tasks one can undergo in the movie industry. After Marvel finally had the success they craved in the motion picture world, everyone wanted to start their own cinematic universe. In most cases these movies come out with a
It’s no secret that when it comes to horror movies most fans want to be scared beyond belief. If being scared is the point of this genre, can there be such a thing as too scary? There is a fine line between scary and just down right disturbing and there
Traditions are what make up almost every aspect of Halloween. Some of these traditions have roots that go back before America was a country. Without these traditions and celebrations, October 31st would just be another day. One of the best and most entertaining of these traditions, is to cuddle up on
People have always been fascinated by big budget Hollywood productions that either go massively over budget or completely off the rails, as there’s always a sense of morbid curiosity associated with someone spending hundreds of millions of dollars of the studio’s money and somehow still managing to get it catastrophically
Disney’s live-action remakes of their animated back catalogue have provided another hugely lucrative revenue stream for a multimedia conglomerate that already has Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Pixar at their disposal. While the majority of these re-imaginings are painfully lacking in originality and much happier to simply recreate
One of the most memorable aspects of childhood can be linked to things we watched as children, whether those things are television shows or movies that we adored. Sometimes those memories can be rekindled through a new movie or TV series that embraces those shows we appreciated in our youth—like