Stop Motion has NEVER looked this good in Wildwood – A Review
The Review contains no spoilers. Good God, this was beautiful. There is a glorious extravagance to building a world this detailed and then giving it inhabitants capable of competing with it for your attention. Wildwood’s sets are gorgeous, intricate enough to reward looking beyond whoever happens to...
The Empire That Ate Cinema, Part Two: How Hollywood Became Central
By the first years of the twentieth century, The Movies had become a business. Companies were being founded, studios built, prints shipped abroad and audiences gathered wherever somebody could put up a screen. France had gained the early lead. Pathé grew with astonishing speed, producing films,...
War Machine Gets Away With Far Too Much – A Review
War Machine had me gripped by sequences I thought were colossally stupid. I worried about whether these people would get out while also wondering why they had ended up in that situation. Director Patrick Hughes sends Alan Ritchson through Army Ranger selection, then sets an enormous...
The Empire That Ate Cinema, part one: Who Owns the Global Box Office?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has done something extraordinary. In a little over two months, it has earned more than $2.5 billion worldwide, overtaken Titanic and Ne Zha 2, and climbed to third place on the all-time box-office chart. Only Avengers: Endgame and Avatar remain above...