Hello, welcome to celebrating 31 years of one of the biggest worldwide franchises. I am talking about the Transformers, who have been the most successful toys based franchise in history. You have seen them in movies, TV, and of course sitting on shelves at the stores, but did you know they first appeared in what…
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Avengers: Infinity War to be filmed entirely in IMAX
Whether they admit it or not, Marvel seem to be embracing their films’ IMAX potential more and more.
Sex Sells: A Brief History of Cinema’s Favourite Trick.
Sex sells. This is not a bold thesis so much as a stubborn, unkillable truth, and few mediums have leaned into it more enthusiastically than cinema. From the earliest flickers of film, sexuality has been baked into the language of movies. One of the first films ever publicly exhibited, The Kiss (1886), ran a scandalous…
Transforming Comics – Free Comic Book Day, The Gateway In
Hello readers, I am here with a new weekly article that will center news for comics and related media. The focus will sometimes run into my current favourite on-going series Transformers, but today is more of a look into getting started with comic collecting and reading. For that purpose I am going to tell you about a…
The Many Faces of Superman
“It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!” It would be hard to deny that there is no character more iconic than Superman, you would have to travel to a very obscure and isolated spot on this Earth to locate someone who couldn’t identify The Man of Steel from even just his trademark symbol –…