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A Series of Unfortunate Events T.V. Review

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Eerily Sarcastic That Exceeds Expectations... As much as this may seem surprising to many general viewing audiences, it's more than likely that, in this day-and-age, you'll be watching a T.V. series that is a direct spin-off from an already established film. Indeed, with a film industry that's flooded with remakes, sequels and superhero films, of which dominant the cinematic/box-office space, the realm of T.V, particularly within the main streaming services, more than satisfies watching needs with concepts that see's a particular story of film continued through an episodic structure. While it's understandable for many to be sceptical by the fact that older and recognisable films are being adapted for the small-screen, since many features are such beloved and don't need to either re-hashed or continued through a new-format, is the film-to-T.V. format so terrible? After all, it has to be said that it takes quite a substantial amount of time for a new and in

La La Land Film Review

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Ga Ga over La La? A Full-Impact Dazzlement that Charms and Commends Classical Cinema... Ever since its first teaser trailer that appeared many months ago and its inception at the Venice Film Festival, Damien Chazelle's latest feature of La La Land  had been spouted and received by avid film-goers as a film that could dazzle in the Awards Season scene. Indeed, with it upholding a focused contextualisation that see's two aspiring entertainers trying to 'make it' in a modern and undermining backdrop of Los Angeles as well as maintaining dance/musical numbers that charmingly hallmark cinema's golden age of 1930's Hollywood, it's no surprise to see that La La Land has peoples heads turning; since it swept the board at The Golden Globes and is being hailed as a revival piece of a bygone genre. While critics and audiences alike have taken the opportunity to wrongly state how such a film has 'revived' an outmoded filmic typing, Chazelle's latest

The New Year: Films To Look Out For In 2017

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Battle of the Sci-Fi's? The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written... Hello everyone and welcome back to the Blog. Happy belated new year to you all!! 😏🎉. Since this is the first proper Blog Post that I'm doing in 2017, I thought what better way to come back and write to you all, and tell you about the many great films that are set to be released throughout the year!! While there are some iffy features that definitely put the avid cinema-goer into a state of questioning, it's more than likely that the big names, that will be mentioned in this list of most anticipated films of 2017, will satisfy the viewing eye than what 2016 presented to us. Without further boredom and babbling on, let us go through the 'most anticipated'  films of this year!!...  La La Land - Damien Chazelle, 12th January While other audiences, in different countries, may have seen Damien Chazelle's work already, for us Brits, its set to