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Cruella arrives as the culmination of two interconnected trends.. Most obviously, Cruella is the latest in the long line of live action (or pseudo-live action) adaptations of classic Disney properties hoping to turn the studio’s animated back catalogue into a source of rich intellectual property that can be steadily mined for quick returns. Movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO The devil's in the details. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist.Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! ON THE TENETS OF “TENET”… So, as I have mentioned before, I am launching a new video series as a companion piece to In the Frame at The Escapist.The video will typically launch with every second Monday article, and be released on the magazine’s YouTube channel the following week. This is kinda cool, because we’re helping relaunch the magazine’s film content – so if you can throw a subscription our way, it would NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON “CRUELLA” AND OVERLY DETERMINED I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through comic books and then making the leap into film SPIRAL | THE M0VIE BLOG Spiral: From the Book of Saw is an interesting, if dysfunctional, franchise extension.. The obvious point of contrast is something like Jigsaw, the last attempt to restart the Saw franchise.Jigsaw was released in 2017, two years after Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, and it bet big on a particular kind of nostalgia.It was a film that consciously aspired to evoke the memory of the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. NEW PODCAST! THE ESCAPIST MOVIE PODCAST The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the seventeenth episode of the year, with a very special guest – the wonderful Ty Franck, co-creator of The Expanse.Ty joined us to talk about seventies science-fiction, in particular Logan’s Run.. You can listen to back episodes of the podcast here, click the link below or even listen directly. NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON THE UNDERAPPRECIATED APPEAL OF I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist yesterday evening. With the release of Superman: The Animated Series in high-definition on HBO Max in March, it seemed like an opportunity to take a look back at the underappreciated entry in the DC Animated Universe.. Superman: The Animated Series tends to get overshadowed in discussions of the DCAU by the two shows either side of it, byTHE M0VIE BLOG
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Cruella arrives as the culmination of two interconnected trends.. Most obviously, Cruella is the latest in the long line of live action (or pseudo-live action) adaptations of classic Disney properties hoping to turn the studio’s animated back catalogue into a source of rich intellectual property that can be steadily mined for quick returns. Movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO The devil's in the details. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist.Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! ON THE TENETS OF “TENET”… So, as I have mentioned before, I am launching a new video series as a companion piece to In the Frame at The Escapist.The video will typically launch with every second Monday article, and be released on the magazine’s YouTube channel the following week. This is kinda cool, because we’re helping relaunch the magazine’s film content – so if you can throw a subscription our way, it would NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON “CRUELLA” AND OVERLY DETERMINED I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through comic books and then making the leap into film SPIRAL | THE M0VIE BLOG Spiral: From the Book of Saw is an interesting, if dysfunctional, franchise extension.. The obvious point of contrast is something like Jigsaw, the last attempt to restart the Saw franchise.Jigsaw was released in 2017, two years after Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, and it bet big on a particular kind of nostalgia.It was a film that consciously aspired to evoke the memory of the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. NEW PODCAST! THE ESCAPIST MOVIE PODCAST The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the seventeenth episode of the year, with a very special guest – the wonderful Ty Franck, co-creator of The Expanse.Ty joined us to talk about seventies science-fiction, in particular Logan’s Run.. You can listen to back episodes of the podcast here, click the link below or even listen directly. NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON THE UNDERAPPRECIATED APPEAL OF I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist yesterday evening. With the release of Superman: The Animated Series in high-definition on HBO Max in March, it seemed like an opportunity to take a look back at the underappreciated entry in the DC Animated Universe.. Superman: The Animated Series tends to get overshadowed in discussions of the DCAU by the two shows either side of it, byTHE M0VIE BLOG
Cruella arrives as the culmination of two interconnected trends.. Most obviously, Cruella is the latest in the long line of live action (or pseudo-live action) adaptations of classic Disney properties hoping to turn the studio’s animated back catalogue into a source of rich intellectual property that can be steadily mined for quick returns. Movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The JUNE | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG 1 post published by Darren during June 2021. With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to Disney+ over the next six months, The Escapist has launched a weekly show discussing these series. This week, with Loki launching next Wednesday, I join KC Nwosu and Amy Campbell to talk about our expectations and our predictions for the last of this wave of big three live action Marvel shows on NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! REVIEWING “LOKI”… 1 day ago · I published a new column at The Escapist yesterday. I took a look at the opening two episodes of Loki.. Loki arrives as the third and final of the first wave of live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Disney+. The opening episode suggests that it is burdened with “glorious purpose”, featuring one of the cinematic universe’s breakout characters while also introducing the Time NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO The devil's in the details. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist.Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors inMARVELOUS ESCAPE
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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. HOLY CAMP, BATMAN: THE REDEMPTIVE QUEERNESS OF “BATMAN Batman Forever was immediately compromised. It followed on from Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, which remain two of the most distinctive superhero blockbusters ever made.They were hugely financially successful, but met with some backlash. Parents were concerned about the content of the films, Batman Returns in particular. To be fair, this was part of a broader cultural NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION This January and February, we’ll be finishing up our look at the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and moving on to the third year of the show, both recently and lovingly remastered for high definition. Check back daily for the latest review. The Bonding is a pretty pivotal and momentous episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation.On one hand, it’s the first episode overseen MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form story “BLACK PANTHER”, “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”, AND AMERICAN Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians offer an interesting (and perhaps unsettling) glimpse at the American Dream as it exists in 2018. The American Dream is a fascinating idea. At its core, the American Dream suggests that anybody can come to America and make something ofthemselves.
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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. HOLY CAMP, BATMAN: THE REDEMPTIVE QUEERNESS OF “BATMAN Batman Forever was immediately compromised. It followed on from Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, which remain two of the most distinctive superhero blockbusters ever made.They were hugely financially successful, but met with some backlash. Parents were concerned about the content of the films, Batman Returns in particular. To be fair, this was part of a broader cultural NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION This January and February, we’ll be finishing up our look at the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and moving on to the third year of the show, both recently and lovingly remastered for high definition. Check back daily for the latest review. The Bonding is a pretty pivotal and momentous episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation.On one hand, it’s the first episode overseen MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form story “BLACK PANTHER”, “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”, AND AMERICAN Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians offer an interesting (and perhaps unsettling) glimpse at the American Dream as it exists in 2018. The American Dream is a fascinating idea. At its core, the American Dream suggests that anybody can come to America and make something ofthemselves.
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NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON HOW LOKI TWISTS THE CAMPBELLIAN I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With Loki arriving on Disney+ on Wednesday, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s God of Mischief and what makes Loki such a compelling character.. There are lots of reasons why Loki has succeeded where other Marvel Studios villains have failed.MARVEL TELEVISION
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NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE CONJURING Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! ON THE TENETS OF “TENET”… New Escapist Video! On the Tenets of “TENET”. So, as I have mentioned before, I am launching a new video series as a companion piece to In the Frame at The Escapist. The video will typically launch with every second Monday article, and be released on the magazine’s YouTube channel the following week. This is kinda cool, becausewe’re
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Posts about a star wars story written by Darren. I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La ED WARREN | THE M0VIE BLOG Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La THE CONJURING; THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of LaTHE M0VIE BLOG
an Irish nerd's eye look at the world of film. Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. JUNE | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG New Escapist Video! “Loki – Predicting the Direction of the Series”. Posted on June 3, 2021 by Darren. With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to Disney+ over the next six months, The Escapist has launched a weekly show discussing these series. This week, with Loki launching next Wednesday, I join KC Nwosu and AmyCampbell to
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. HOLY CAMP, BATMAN: THE REDEMPTIVE QUEERNESS OF “BATMAN Batman Forever was immediately compromised. It followed on from Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, which remain two of the most distinctive superhero blockbusters ever made.They were hugely financially successful, but met with some backlash. Parents were concerned about the content of the films, Batman Returns in particular. To be fair, this was part of a broader cultural NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION This January and February, we’ll be finishing up our look at the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and moving on to the third year of the show, both recently and lovingly remastered for high definition. Check back daily for the latest review. The Bonding is a pretty pivotal and momentous episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation.On one hand, it’s the first episode overseen MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form story “BLACK PANTHER”, “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”, AND AMERICAN Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians offer an interesting (and perhaps unsettling) glimpse at the American Dream as it exists in 2018. The American Dream is a fascinating idea. At its core, the American Dream suggests that anybody can come to America and make something ofthemselves.
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an Irish nerd's eye look at the world of film. Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. JUNE | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG New Escapist Video! “Loki – Predicting the Direction of the Series”. Posted on June 3, 2021 by Darren. With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to Disney+ over the next six months, The Escapist has launched a weekly show discussing these series. This week, with Loki launching next Wednesday, I join KC Nwosu and AmyCampbell to
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. HOLY CAMP, BATMAN: THE REDEMPTIVE QUEERNESS OF “BATMAN Batman Forever was immediately compromised. It followed on from Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, which remain two of the most distinctive superhero blockbusters ever made.They were hugely financially successful, but met with some backlash. Parents were concerned about the content of the films, Batman Returns in particular. To be fair, this was part of a broader cultural NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION This January and February, we’ll be finishing up our look at the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and moving on to the third year of the show, both recently and lovingly remastered for high definition. Check back daily for the latest review. The Bonding is a pretty pivotal and momentous episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation.On one hand, it’s the first episode overseen MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form story “BLACK PANTHER”, “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”, AND AMERICAN Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians offer an interesting (and perhaps unsettling) glimpse at the American Dream as it exists in 2018. The American Dream is a fascinating idea. At its core, the American Dream suggests that anybody can come to America and make something ofthemselves.
JUNE | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG New Escapist Video! “Loki – Predicting the Direction of the Series”. Posted on June 3, 2021 by Darren. With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to Disney+ over the next six months, The Escapist has launched a weekly show discussing these series. This week, with Loki launching next Wednesday, I join KC Nwosu and AmyCampbell to
NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON HOW LOKI TWISTS THE CAMPBELLIAN I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With Loki arriving on Disney+ on Wednesday, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s God of Mischief and what makes Loki such a compelling character.. There are lots of reasons why Loki has succeeded where other Marvel Studios villains have failed. NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE CONJURING Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of LaMARVEL TELEVISION
4 hours ago · Posts about marvel television written by Darren. I published a new column at The Escapist yesterday. I took a look at the opening two episodes of Loki.. Loki arrives as the third and final of the first wave of live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Disney+. The opening episode suggests that it is burdened with “glorious purpose”, featuring one of the cinematic universe’sbreakout
NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! ON THE TENETS OF “TENET”… New Escapist Video! On the Tenets of “TENET”. So, as I have mentioned before, I am launching a new video series as a companion piece to In the Frame at The Escapist. The video will typically launch with every second Monday article, and be released on the magazine’s YouTube channel the following week. This is kinda cool, becausewe’re
A STAR WARS STORY
Posts about a star wars story written by Darren. I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “CRUELLA Posted on May 27, 2021 by Darren. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of Cruella, which released in cinemas and on Disney+ this THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La ED WARREN | THE M0VIE BLOG Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La THE CONJURING; THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of LaTHE M0VIE BLOG
an Irish nerd's eye look at the world of film. Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. MAY | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG 235. Seppuku (Harakiri) (#32) Posted on May 29, 2021 by Darren. Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guests Chris Lavery and Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE WITCHES (2020) Non-Review Review: The Witches (2020) The Witches offers a clumsy American update of the classic Roald Dahl novel. To be fair, there is something potentially interesting in attempting to update The Witches, both for modern audiences and for American viewers. It’s to the credit of director Robert Zemeckis and co-writers Kenya Barris and NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (REVIEWS) Star Trek was a science-fiction television series that ran on NBC between 1966 and 1969. It captured the spirit of the decade, bowing out gracefully only a few weeks before the moon landing and a few months before the seventies. STAR TREK – THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS (REVIEW) The Squire of Gothos is a superb piece of Star Trek, and one of the highlights of a rather great first season. It’s probably the best story featuring a god-like being in the entire three-season run of Star Trek, and features one of the best guest performances in the franchise’s history. STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE However, the hatred for A Night in Sickbay is not universal. It was one of two Enterprise episodes to make the shortlist for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in the “short form” category. More than that, A Night in Sickbay actually polled ahead of the other nominated episode of Enterprise, Carbon Creek.Even in commercial terms, A Night in Sickbay was a success, earning MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form storyTHE M0VIE BLOG
an Irish nerd's eye look at the world of film. Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. MAY | 2021 | THE M0VIE BLOG 235. Seppuku (Harakiri) (#32) Posted on May 29, 2021 by Darren. Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guests Chris Lavery and Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (REVIEWS) Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE WITCHES (2020) Non-Review Review: The Witches (2020) The Witches offers a clumsy American update of the classic Roald Dahl novel. To be fair, there is something potentially interesting in attempting to update The Witches, both for modern audiences and for American viewers. It’s to the credit of director Robert Zemeckis and co-writers Kenya Barris and NON-REVIEW REVIEW: STAR TREK Non-Review Review: Star Trek – Insurrection. “I think I’m having a mid-life crisis,” Riker tells Troi at one point in Star Trek: Insurrection, and it might be the most telling line in the film. Insurrection is many things, perhaps too many things. However, it primarily feels like a meditation on what it means to grow old,focusing on
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (REVIEWS) The story of Star Trek: Voyager is the story of the long and slow death of a particular iteration of the Star Trek franchise.. Voyager arrived when the Star Trek franchise was at the peak of its popularity.Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a television institution. It had retired the previous year, of its own volition after more than one hundred and seventy episodes. STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (REVIEWS) Star Trek was a science-fiction television series that ran on NBC between 1966 and 1969. It captured the spirit of the decade, bowing out gracefully only a few weeks before the moon landing and a few months before the seventies. STAR TREK – THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS (REVIEW) The Squire of Gothos is a superb piece of Star Trek, and one of the highlights of a rather great first season. It’s probably the best story featuring a god-like being in the entire three-season run of Star Trek, and features one of the best guest performances in the franchise’s history. STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE However, the hatred for A Night in Sickbay is not universal. It was one of two Enterprise episodes to make the shortlist for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in the “short form” category. More than that, A Night in Sickbay actually polled ahead of the other nominated episode of Enterprise, Carbon Creek.Even in commercial terms, A Night in Sickbay was a success, earning MATT FRACTION’S RUN ON THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The only reason that this was not possible was because Marvel tied the release of the hardcovers to the release of their big budget films – so the first hardcover had to be published in time for Jon Favreau’s sequel to Iron Man and the second had to be read for Robert Downey Jr.’s superhero team-up. It feels like a bit of a shame, because I get the sense that Fraction’s long-form story NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE CONJURING Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON HOW LOKI TWISTS THE CAMPBELLIAN I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With Loki arriving on Disney+ on Wednesday, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s God of Mischief and what makes Loki such a compelling character.. There are lots of reasons why Loki has succeeded where other Marvel Studios villains have failed. NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO The devil's in the details. I’m thrilled to be launching 3-Minute Reviews on The Escapist.Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (REVIEWS) It can be difficult to separate the history and mythology of Star Trek. The two aspects of the franchise are interlocked and intertwined, the facts buried beneath decades of spin careful cultivated by key figures. There are times at which Gene Roddenberry seems less like a television producer and more like a modern dayprophet, points
THE X-FILES (REVIEWS) The X-Files frequently resorts to viral metaphors when it comes to expressing existential threats; the alien life at the heart of the mythology is a sentient virus. In the context of AIDS and Ebola, these stories take on a cynical twist. The X-Files seems toCRUELLA DE VIL
Posts about cruella de vil written by Darren. I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La ED WARREN | THE M0VIE BLOG Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La DABANGG 3 | THE M0VIE BLOG Posts about dabangg 3 written by Darren. I published a new In the Frame piece at The Escapist this evening. With the release of Cruella in theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.. The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through comic THE CONJURING; THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including The Nun, The Curse of La Llorona and the separate Annabelle trilogy, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La* Home
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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT – REVIEW IN 3 MINUTES” Posted on June 6, 2021 by Darren I’m thrilled to be launching _3-Minute Reviews _on _The Escapist_. Over the coming weeks and months, I will be joining a set of contributors in adding these reviews to the channel. For the moment, I’m honoured to contribute a three-minute film review of THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT,
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237. DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES (RIFIFI) (#241) Posted on June 5, 2021 by Darren Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guest Luke Dunne, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. This week, Jules Dessin’s DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES. Master thief Tony has just been released from prison. He returns home to discover that his young apprentice Jo has hatched a plan for a daring jewelry heist. Against his better judgement, Tony finds himself drawn into a scheme that will have far-reaching implications for allof those involved.
At time of recording, it was ranked 241st on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Continue reading → Filed under: The 250| Tagged: crime
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| Leave a comment » NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON “CRUELLA” AND OVERLY DETERMINEDORIGIN STORIES…
Posted on June 4, 2021 by Darren I published a new _In the Frame_piece at
_The Escapist_ this evening. With the release of CRUELLAin
theatres and on Disney+, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the trend towards overly deterministic origin stories.__
The origin story has arguably always been around, even if the term itself only really entered the mainstream through comic books and then making the leap into film criticism with comic book movies. Nevertheless, the recent trend of overly-determined origin stories betrays something frustrating about the state of our collective imagination. One of the most disappointing aspects of _Cruella_ is the way that the film takes a simple but weird figure and paints an origin that is completely and predictably by the numbers. You can read the piece here,
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| Leave a comment » NON-REVIEW REVIEW: THE CONJURING – THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT Posted on June 4, 2021 by Darren It’s absurd to think that THE CONJURING is probably the second most successful shared universe at Hollywood. Of course, this is arguably more an indictment of the struggles that companies like Warner Bros. and Universal have faced in trying to launch competition for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is still impressive that a gigantic homage to populist seventies horror has successfully grossed nearly two billion dollars across eight films.
After all, this is a property anchored in a cinematic nostalgia which has succeeded through casting character actors appreciably older than most horror leads, notably Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, but also Linda Cardellini, Anthony LaPaglia, Miranda Otto, Lili Taylor and RonLivingston.
“Holy Plot! I mean, this plot… it’s full of holes…” Following a variety of spin-offs and tie-ins including THE NUN, THE
CURSE OF LA LLORONA
and the separate ANNABELLE trilogy, THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT is the third entry in the franchise’s cornerstone series. It is the first entry in that main series not to be directed by James Wan. Instead, Wan hands over directorial responsibilities to Michael Chaves, who helmed _The Curse of La Llorona_. Still, in terms of aesthetic and scale, _The Devil Made Me Do It_ is recognisable as a continuation and development of the previous two entries in the trilogy. Much like THE CONJURING 2,
_The Devil Made Me Do It_ is a curious genre hybrid. It feels like a conscious effort to build a blockbuster horror movie, incorporating elements from more populist films and tying them back to the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of classic horror films. Like _The Conjuring 2_, this hybridisation is perhaps more interesting than it is effective. It doesn’t entirely work, but it certain meritsinvestigation.
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NEW ESCAPIST VIDEO! “LOKI – PREDICTING THE DIRECTION OF THESERIES”…
Posted on June 3, 2021 by Darren With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to _Disney+_ over the next six months, _The Escapist_ has launched a weekly show discussingthese series
This week, with LOKI launching next Wednesday, I join KC Nwosu and Amy Campbell to talk about our expectations and our predictions for the last of this wave of big three live action Marvel shows on Disney+. Filed under: Television | Tagged: amy campbell, disney
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| Leave a comment » NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON HOW “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE” WOULD CAUSE FANOUTRAGE TODAY…
Posted on May 31, 2021 by Darren I published a new _In the Frame_piece at
_The Escapist_ this evening. With Brian dePalma’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE turning twenty-five years old this month, it seemed as good a time as any to take a look back the film that started the modern iteration of the franchise.__
In hindsight, it is impossible to imagine _Mission: Impossible_ getting made today. The movie’s big twist is the revelation that the one character carried over from the television show, a standard bearer for the larger franchise, has secretly betrayed everything that the audience took for granted. The twist was controversial at the time, with several members of the original cast and some fans objecting to the characterisation. However, in a franchise-driven age where any deviation from the template is a source of outrage, it’s impossible to imagine _Mission: Impossible_ attempting anything so bold today. You can read the piece here,
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| Leave a comment » NEW ESCAPIST COLUMN! ON “M.O.D.O.K” AS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR… Posted on May 31, 2021 by Darren I published a new _In the Frame_piece at
_The Escapist_ on Friday evening. With the release of M.O.D.O.K. on Hulu, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at this unusual addition to the Marveltelevision canon.
_M.O.D.O.K. _is not a perfect show, but it is a breath of fresh air. In particular, it arrives in a cultural landscape that is becoming increasingly homogeneous and consolidated, existing as one of the last projects produced by Marvel Television before it was swallowed by Marvel Studios. As such, it is a Marvel adaptation with a distinct aesthetic. More than that, it is a comic book adaptation that is completely and utterly unashamed of its comic book roots. It is a show that revels in the inherent absurdity of comic books in a way that puts many higher profile adaptations to shame. You can read the piece here,
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Posted on May 31, 2021 by Darren With a slew of Marvel Studios productions coming to _Disney+_ over the next six months, _The Escapist_ has launched a weekly show discussingthese series
This week, in the gap between THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER and LOKI, KC Nwosu and I take a look at a rather unconventional entry in the Marvel television canon: M.O.D.O.K., the half-hour sitcom from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum about the maniacal supervillain trying to strike a work/life balance. Filed under: Television| Tagged: comedy
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| Leave a comment » 235. SEPPUKU (HARAKIRI) (#32) Posted on May 29, 2021 by Darren Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guests Chris Lavery and Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. This week, Masaki Kobayashi’s SEPPUKU. It is a peaceful time in Japan. The samurai class have largely been rendered obsolete, with many veterans struggling to feed themselves or their families. A former samurai arrives at the estate of the powerful Iyi Clan, requesting to commit ritual suicide before them. He is the second such wanderer in so many days. However, nobody can expect whatwill follow.
At time of recording, it was ranked 32nd on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Continue reading → Filed under: The 250| Tagged:
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| Leave a comment » NON-REVIEW REVIEW: CRUELLA Posted on May 28, 2021 by Darren CRUELLA arrives as the culmination of two interconnected trends. Most obviously, _Cruella_ is the latest in the long line of live action (or pseudo-live action) adaptations of classic Disney properties hoping to turn the studio’s animated back catalogue into a source of rich intellectual property that can be steadily mined for quick returns. Movies like BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,
ALADDIN
and THE LION KING
all grossed over a billion dollars, so there is surely an audience hungry to see beloved childhood classics transferred into live action. Ready for some hot takes? Ironically enough, 101 DALMATIANS was one of the first films to make that leap from pencil and inks to live action, with an adaptation (and a sequel) in the mid-nineties. Indeed, it’s arguable that Glenn Close’s incarnation of Cruella DeVil looms just large enough in the culture that a simple reboot of the premise might feel a little gauche. Jon Favreau could direct a _second_ pseudo-live-action version of THE JUNGLE BOOK for the company, but only because the earlier effort had no cultural footprint. So _Cruella_ is not content to be a straight-up reimagining of the classic Disney cartoon. Instead, the film draws from another contemporary trend when it comes to managing these intellectual properties: the villain-centric reboot. _Cruella_ is arguably of a piece with recent pop culture like RATCHET, MALEFICENTor
JOKER ,
all works that reimagined a familiar intellectual property through the lens of its antagonist. There is evidently money in this concept, with _Joker_ earning over a billion dollars and _Maleficent_ earning half a billion and inspiring a sequel.A crime of fashion.
So _Cruella_ offers an origin story for the classic Disney villain, inviting the audience to get to know the monstrous fashion designer whose defining character trait was her desire to skin a lot of adorable puppies to make the perfect coat. It’s certainly an ambitious assignment. While Cruella is one of the most striking villains in the Disney canon, with one of the catchiest theme songs, she is hardly the most complex or nuanced. There’s hardly a lot of tragedy to be mined in a character so horrifically monstrous that _“if she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will.”_ This sets up the central tension in _Cruella_, and the problem that the movie never quite manages to resolve. _Cruella_ is a much stronger movie whenever it allows itself to drift away from the shadow of _101 Dalmations_ and become its own thing, but it suffers greatly when it finds itself drawn back into the gravity of the original Disney classic. _Cruella_ works reasonably well as a seventies-set fashion heist movie, but struggles when it tries to be a compelling villain origin story for a character who really never needed one. Continue reading → Filed under: Non-Review Reviews|
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