Author: Sean McConville

The first Kingsman as many would know was not grounded in a gritty reality as many spy films are nowadays. It took a very flexible approach and was

Whilst watching Darren Aronofsky’s latest creation, memories of early film studies started to come back to me. I was reminded of one of my earliest essays about whether

Coulrophobia is back people. The original mini-series of It became an instant cult classic and if you ask any adult what terrified them as child, Tim Curry’s comical

Victorian London and a murder mystery. If it hadn’t been for Jack the Ripper and Arthur Conan Doyle, these two pieces of a narrative jigsaw would not have

This is certainly a sharp turn from reviews but the idea and the service that can be put out by writing on a topic like this clicked inside

Films on historical events tick with me, I often do a ton of research on the event being shown after the viewing just purely down to the motivation

As far as Stephen King based films go, there have certainly been hits and misses that need no explanation. And since connecting other film worlds is now the

Whist watching A Ghost Story, I was reminded of a film from Thailand called Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. In a way, the two share

So apparently Valerian is the science fiction of all science fiction culture, it has inspired the like of Star Wars and The Fifth Element, another film that Luc

It is very easy to get romantic comedies wrong, it is easily a combined genre that when executing is very unpredictable and dangerous, unless you nail the romantic

Christopher Nolan in a recent article said that he wanted to offer a fully immersive film, as if the audience were to put on a VR headset and

Remember the original teaser trailer for Cars 3? It had everyone hyped because it seemed that Pixar were going to take a massive gamble on the Cars franchise

Let’s talk reboots. It has become common practice to take an old franchise and bring it back up to date, like a chef’s twist on a classic dish.

I may have mentioned this in my previous reviews of films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) but most of my knowledge of comic books comes from my

Tupac Shakur was someone who I never listened to but had heard of who he was and his popularity as an artist after his death, therefore I had