Enola Holmes is pretty fun. It won’t top anyone’s favourite film list or their 2020 best-of. It doesn’t need to. Because it’s harmless, laid-back fun. Above all else, it is Netflix’s attempt at a blockbuster, […]
Amazon Prime’s ‘The Boys’: Salient Social Commentary or a Step too Far?
With its outrageous gore, constant cursing, social criticism and naïve lost boy Hughie, Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ is everything Marvel wishes it was. At the forefront of this ambitious satire of superhero tropes, is its refusal […]
A New Hope? : The Future of Cinemas beyond COVID-19
It has been a little over four months since the Coronavirus pandemic forced cinemas to close their doors. Since then, we have been forced to consume new film releases from home, which in 2020 means […]
Streaming Takes Studio Ghibli: A Blunder or an Honour?
Emma Rivers discusses the recent announcement that the entire catalogue of works from Studio Ghibli will be available to stream through HBOMax from April 2020. Studio Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese animation film studio founded by […]
Netflix and Marvel: The Rift Between the Dynamic Duo
In August of 2017, Disney announced plans to launch two separate streaming services – one for ESPN focusing entirely on sports, and one for its Disney and Pixar live-action and animated films and shows. The […]
To Stream or Not to Stream?
Everybody knows that at this point, the TV is dead. Nobody opens up the paper and checks to see what time Bargain Hunt is on, except for pensioner’s maybe. These days TV is just watched […]
The Battle of Music Streaming Services
Spotify The undisputed king of music streaming. Launched in 2008, it was the first music streaming service to gain worldwide recognition and has gone on to become the market leader with 20 million users. With […]