Category: Studios and Franchises
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RunPee Star Wars Hub
The 45th anniversary of the first film in the Star Wars franchise is rapidly approaching. It would have been nice to say that the premiere was on May 4th but, back then, no one knew that they had such a phenomenon on their hands. As a result the US release date sits three weeks after…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #110 (April 20th, 2022)
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The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Movie Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Welcome to this week’s special Newsletter, all about the Wizarding World, starting with our review of FB3. It…wasn’t bad. In fact, it’s pretty good. Just not…
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Best of British Biographies – Gary Oldman
Throughout this series of Best of Brit articles, there has been a relatively common theme; a lot of the people I’ve spoken about have spent some of their earlier years in one of the renowned theatrical training grounds such as the RSC, the National, or RADA. This chap is a bit different in that he…
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JB, Or Not JB, That Is The Question
Imagine if Ian Fleming had been a US Marine rather than British Naval Intelligence. Furthermore, imagine if he’d written about a secret agent operating in the dying embers of the Cold War rather than during the whitest of white hot parts. Let’s just say, imagine if he was Robert Ludlum rather than Ian Fleming. So…
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Fantastic Flaw – Why Hasn’t There Been A Good F4 Film?
In many ways the Fantastic Four were the first, the one’s that paved the way for the rest, the ones that were genuinely groundbreaking. Back in 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby got together and created a superhero team with a flawed humanity and other complex, yet naturalistic, characteristics. The Fantastic Four were born. I’m…
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MCU Disney+ Review – Loki
I suppose that we should be looking at The Falcon And The Winter Soldier next but, given that one of the next big films due for release is Thor: Love And Thunder, then Loki seemed the obvious series to do next. Yes, I know that Dr Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness is due out…
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Best of British Biographies – Benedict Cumberbatch
Prior to 2010 not many people had heard of Benedict Cumberbatch nor could they, probably, pick him out of a line up. That wasn’t due to lack of exposure; parts in seventeen TV shows, ten films, thirty radio programmes, and eighteen theatre plays gave him a decent amount of public attention but he was never…
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You’re saying it wrong: The Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator
Of course, the wacky people in Britland can’t be bothered to say superhero actor Benedict Cumberbatch properly. It’s too much effort and a lot more fun to get it astoundingly, satisfyingly wrong. Cumberbatch — er, Cumberbund? — seems okay with this. Say his real name enough times and you start wondering what is correct,…
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Movie Review – The Batman
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The Batman has a few things to love, and a lot to like. There are hardly any disappointments. What I loved My impression is that in all of the Batman movies we’ve seen since Dark Knight we see mostly Bruce Wayne, and Batman fills in the action sequences. Batman is essentially Bruce Wayne’s alter-ego. That’s reversed in The Batman.…
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Jack Reacher History – The Short And The Tall Of It
1997 saw the publication of The Killing Floor by Lee Child. It did quite well; it was nominated for five awards and won three. It started a series of twenty-six novels, so far, and around twenty novellas and short stories. To date, Lee Child has sold over a hundred million copies of his Jack…
