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I watched The Greatest Showman at The Savoy for the third time this weekend (yes, you heard that right, I’ve watched it three times) and it got me thinking. YES it’s a great film, YES it has a fab cast, and YES it has an even better soundtrack, but...

Despite missing out at the top gong of this year’s Oscars, La La Land’s unprecedented success has still managed to cause ripples in Hollywood’s lake of cinematic universes and delayed sequels. To add to those ripples is the sudden rise of musical films currently in production, such as a...

Warning: minor spoilers ahead. Logan is a brutal film. Brutal in tone, brutal in the uncompromising nature of the violence it presents, brutal even in its dark (some might say realistic) message. However, it’s arguably for this reason that Hugh Jackman’s last outing as the titular Wolverine is such...

While many are aware of the Gregorian calendar, there is another one that runs parallel to it: the film calendar. Such a schedule means that months like March and September are “in-betweeners”. They don’t quite belong to the artsy-fartsy films of awards season, nor with the somewhat hum drum...

Logan, based on Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan series, is set to be the final solo Wolverine film, after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). Directed by James Mangold, it stars (who else?) Hugh Jackman as the eponymous character. Now, Wolverine has always viewed his power –...

The 1988 Winter Olympics will forever remain etched in history as perhaps the most memorable Olympics ever, thanks to the incredible feats of two first-timers. The first of these was made into the charming Cool Runnings, charting the daring debut of the Jamaican bobsled team. The second has only...

Many say that the superhero genre is fast becoming over-crowded and stale. With at least six superhero blockbusters hitting our screens this year, it certainly seems the case. Sadly Deadpool doesn’t breathe fresh air into the genre. Nope, it f*cking injects the genre with more swear words, more laughs,...