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As a child watching films I knew very little about what happened behind the scenes. Yet one name kept being repeated throughout. Steven Spielberg. These days I'm now completely aware of the mass impact that he had on cinema. Directing such iconic films like Jaws, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, E.T and many more. Now Recently Spielberg has given his opinion of the superhero genre, which is basically the #1 film genre at the moment. What Spielberg says is that Superhero films will die out in a similar fashion to the western genre. "We were around when the Western died and there will be a time when the superhero movies goes the way of the Western. It doesn't mean there won't be another occasion where the Western comes back and the superhero movie someday returns. Of course, right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving." As a huge fan of Superhero films this is a bit depressing. But at the same time it's probably true. Westerns were a huge genre in their...

Just two days ago I found out that Disney are planning to remake one of their most loved films: Mary Poppins. I figure this decision was made due to Disney's success with other remakes of their classic films such as Alice In Wonderland, Maleficent and Cinderella. Not to mention the highly anticipated remake of Beauty And The Beast set for release in 2017. So to remake Mary Poppins would make sense if they're continuing this trend. Personally, I'm kinda 50/50 on this idea. I can understand why Disney would want to do it, and I believe, if they get a good director on it, the film could be a great hit that could live up to the original. However, the main reason I would take this with a grain of salt is that previous Disney remakes haven't really lived up to their predecessors. Alice In Wonderland may have grossed a Billion dollars in the worldwide Box Office but also met heavy criticism from audiences. As did Maleficent. But this was mainly because the films strayed t...

2015 has played host to a new wave of Spy films which have changed the genre altogether. We've had Kingman, the sophisticated spoof, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the hard-edged stunt film, and Spectre is to hit theatres in late October and is a modern version of the franchise. The Man From UNCLE follows this pattern of modernizing the genre but, unlike the others it keeps a foot in the old ways as it's a 60's spy movie made in the stylized directorial vision of Guy Ritchie. The film takes place in the 1960's, at the time of the Cold War between the West and the East (Mainly America and the Soviet Union). And the film does well to set up the tension between the two sides, even for those with little knowledge on the era, within the first 10 minutes as the two main characters, played by Cavill and Hammer, run around East Berlin in a high-tense game of cat-and-mouse. This sequence helps to set up the character traits for both Cavill's Napoleon Solo, who acts l...