The Rabbitte Perspective

When 007 meets Kick-Ass Having already made the films of X-Men: First Class , Kick-Ass , Stardust and Layer Cake , Writer/Director and Producer Michael Vaughn in recent years has established himself as one of the most exciting film-makers in the industry. With turning down the chance to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past , Vaughn instead opted to direct Kingsman: The Secret Service ; a film that not only marks to be the third film in a row that Vaughn has adapted from a comic book background, but merges the James Bond espionage construct with the outlandish fighting ilk that Kick-Ass specifically branded to create something that is original, comedic and entertaining. Loosely based on the comic by Mark Miller (who also created Kick-Ass), the film centres around a young ruffian named Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin (Taron Egerton) who is taken under the wing of Harry Hart/Galahad (Colin Firth), a Kingsman spy for an unknown British Secret Service. With the aid of Arthur (Michael Caine...

Is it a good idea? It's not often that we would see a reboot in television these days considering the fact that arguably we are living in an age where T.V and more specifically Internet streaming sites such as Netflix are pretty much dominating the world of entertainment by releasing for once, content that is both original and adapted content which people want to see on their little screens. Now 5 years on from it's proposed last and 4th season, 'Heroes', the cult show that started in 2006, will be coming back later on this year which as you can see from the picture above, will be called 'Heroes Reborn'. NBC roughly a year ago announced that Heroes Reborn will in fact be a mini-series which consists of 13 episodes and would reconnect with the basic elements of the show's first season in which ordinary people discovered that they had special abilities. The announcement of this reboot is certainly an interesting mixed package. While the show did overa...