Star Trek: Make changes and prosper
When reviving a franchise in this day and age, studios seem to have two different concerns that they often attempt to address. They want the film to be embraced by…
Top 5: Sci Fi Films ever
We’ve just had Star Wars day (4th May), and sci-fi is certainly in the atmosphere at the moment, with several out-of-this world releases rocketing onscreen (Star Trek, Iron Man 3,…
Change and Decline in US TV Drama: Conclusion
Part 3: Desperate Housewives, Mad Men and Conclusion Spoiler Alert Coming to more recent television dramas, we see that change in little doses can also be dangerous – or indeed…
Change and Decline in US TV Drama: The West Wing
Part 2: The West Wing Spoiler Alert Crossing over to the other side of American television drama morality, and to a show which couldn’t be more different, we have Aaron…
Celebrating Women in Film
Spielberg. Tarantino. Boyle. Nolan. What do some of the biggest household names in cinema have in common? They are all male. It’s a sad fact that even in 2013, women…
Deep in the Hundred Acre Woods – A Review of Evil Dead
Sam Raimi once described his original The Evil Dead as The Three Stooges but with gore instead of custard pies. The 1981 version is the locus classicus of a myriad…
Change and Decline in US TV Drama: The Sopranos
Part 1: The Sopranos Looking at examples of four of the most successful modern American television dramas, each of them have taken on a different course with the passing of…
Change and Decline in US TV Drama: Related or Simultaneous?
Introduction Of all works of art and forms of entertainment, a television drama series has the hardest time maintaining success. The reasons are fairly straightforward: a film may be a…
