The Rabbitte Perspective

DC's shining grace for 2016?! I think it's fair to say that the year of 2016, so far, for DC Comics, hasn't particularly gone well to their expectations, as far as their cinematic prowess goes. Both Batman V. Superman , which everyone predicted to be one of the big box-office contenders at the start of this year, and Suicide Squad , which presented itself to be a fun cinema-outing from the trailers that it presented itself with, much like how Deadpool was for Marvel, under-performed and both never lived up to the anticipation and fan-projection in being Superhero films that challenged the ever-growing Superhero cinematic dynasty that Marvel are constructing in this day and age. Indeed, while I remain wrongly optimistic that DC will correct themselves with Wonder Woman and Justice League next year, being that these films could too fall down the piping order and be disappointing, It's a shame to say that Batman V. Superman and Suicide Squad both didn't live...

A slight bump on the wizarding road?! Being that the previous filmic entry in the form of The Prisoner of Azkaban , directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was the first Harry Potter film, in that time, to have delved into the more 'dark' nature of the stories through excessive yet successful visual means, it was only natural then, that we would gradually see more of these dark tropes and a much more serious story being fleshed out, in Mike Newell's Harry Potter iteration of The Goblet of Fire . With fearsome creatures, casual murder and a character hacking off their own hand in a peculiar yet odd satanic ritual, indeed, The Goblet of Fire  goes far and beyond from the light-hearted Columbus productions, to a film that matures itself through serious horror/thriller cinematic approaches. It was no wonder parents, at the time of this films release in 2005, were conflicted on whether or not they should permit there own child in watching an edgy Potter, rated 12A, that could potenti...

A visual spectacular mish-mash of Spielberg and King?... It is quite a weird thing to say that Netflix, the quintessential streaming service now above the likes of Hulu and Amazon Prime, in this day and age, is really the place to go to now when it comes to simply sitting down, and watching a reasonably high-quality show. While there can be an argument made for traditional T.V. still offering us the things that fill our viewing pleasure, it can't be denied that Netflix is a resource that extinguishes the need to go the cinemas, or to watch something on BBC or ITV. One of the bigger reasons into why Netflix specifically, combats our need of not potentially going to the cinemas or watching something normally on T.V., is because of their focus in distributing a vast array of original shows/films that cover and span the genre-specific graph. Whether you're looking for a scare,   in the form of  Scream T.V. series , a laugh, with the likes  Orange is the New Black / Unb...

A visual beast with a dark bite: Why it's considered the best of the bunch? Undoubtedly, one trait that a long running film franchise upholds, is the way in which it tries to re-imagine and betters itself, whilst keeping a familiar formula that audiences can engage and relate with. Over the many years of their own filmic existence, on-going film series in the forms of James Bond and Batman for example, have each always embodied and maintained a familiar structure that over the years, has always been re-adjusted and moulded by different directors and auteurs. Batman especially, with its radical transformation from Tim Burton's 90's renditions to Christopher Nolan's hyper-realistic re-telling of the caped-crusader, is a clear indication of how much a franchise or a well-known singular-fictional character can morph into something completely different. The Harry Potter filmic series is no different; with the 3rd instalment, The Prisoner of Azkaban , crafted by Alfons...