Back To Basics? Few superheroes have enjoyed a cinematic legacy as rich—or as fiercely debated—as Spider-Man. From Sam Raimi’s operatic trilogy, which elevated the superhero genre into emotionally resonant blockbuster territory, to Marc Webb’s more introspective interpretation and the kinetic exuberance of Tom Holland’s Marvel Cinematic Universe tenure, each incarnation …
Kaleidoscopic Animation Personified? When it announced itself onto the cinematic stage back in 2018, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse rather broke the mould of the sneered perception of how superhero films are critically received and rather acted as the radioactive arachnid that comes to bite our relatable hero; a spider-bite that …
New Horizons? Despite the naturally adherent feelings from devotee’s towards the likes of Iron-Man, Thor, Captain Marvel and many other likeable protagonists that make-up the Marvel Cinematic Universe that have subsequently resulted in this specific audience to hail the MCU as one of the biggest cinematic feats in contemporary cinema, …
Whatever It Takes Such is the norm in this contemporary age where Superhero theatrical features seamlessly dominate the box-office space and last years Avengers: Infinity War is the prime precedent of this. In now taking the fourth spot in the highest-grossing films of all time, surmising profit of over $2 billion dollars worldwide, it’s …
Stylistic Void: Duck Duck…Goose… What’s paramount to fathom in perceiving the plethora of recent cinematic features that Marvel have released in recent years, is their faith in giving niche directors the chance to share their vision through a super-heroic scope. Indeed, whether it’s through James Gunn’s vision in providing an …
Cinematic Supremacy It’s been six years since we saw a group of individually likeable superhero’s first congregate with each other in the form of Avengers Assemble that was as good as the audience’s hype for it suggested. From that time, Marvel have continued to assert their cinematic dominance by producing …
Long Live The King? As stagnant as it may seem to many that simply discussing the ever-changing iconography of the superhero genre is a nonsensical and tiresome discourse, considering how noticeable this ‘change’ is easy to perceive through recent filmic and televised products, it’s interesting non-the-less to see how vast …
Third Time’s A Charm As much as it’s been highlighted in many various preceding reviews of Marvel superhero films that the aforementioned genre has indeed become the staple of blockbuster film-making, which has resulted in many cinephiles arguing and squabbling over its precedence and how they’re viewed as features that either entertain …
Back To Basics Given that the superhero genre-strain in this day-and-age has blossomed to become the contemporary staple of blockbuster film-making, which has subsequently seen the likes of Marvel and D.C. culminate their own concepts into their own over-arching expanding cinematic universes, its become clearer to notice how each individual …
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It If there’s one thing that’s hard to come by in this cinematic age, it’s to watch a film that has a unique sense of authenticity and spontaneity to it. With their being masses amounts of unnecessary teaser and theatrical trailers for the bigger …
