When we sat down to see what films we were looking forward to seeing in 2024, it was rather sad to see how many where sequels or spin offs to already existing movies. So, we created this separate list of them, and these are the 10 films we are looking forward to in 2024 that are franchises coming to the big screen. We have to be honest, sequels can be a mixed bag and a … [Read more...]
Film Stars In Adverts! Do They Make Us Buy?
We were awaiting a film to start the other day and as per usual had to endure what felt like an hours worth of adverts. First Harvey Keitel told us about Direct Line, quickly followed by Ryan Reynolds promoting BT Broadband with Idris Elba telling us the benefits of Sky Broadband. It didn’t stop though, Jennifer Aniston telling us the benefits of flying with Emirates, … [Read more...]
Illness on screen! A prescription for Box Office Success?
This week, Facebook highlighted that we had watched The Fault in our Stars A Teen Romantic Drama about illness, in this instance, sufferers with cancer, a year ago! What was a coincidence was that this week’s film rental was Miss You Already, again a film about someone coming to terms with being diagnosed with cancer. Films dealing with illness, terminal or not as well as … [Read more...]
Winters War: The Huntsman returns Thor another adventure
In 2012, We got 2 live action Snow White films that could not be more completely different. We had Mirror, Mirror with Julia Roberts & Lily Collins from Director Tarsem Singh,who was probably best known for the Jennifer Lopez SciFi Horror The Cell. We actually thought this was a lot of fun and a lot better than we expected. We also had Snow White and the Huntsman … [Read more...]