The Rabbitte Perspective

Changing Of The Guard Upon reflection, when Disney acquired Lucasfilms and the Star Wars franchise along with it in 2012 for an overwhelming sum of over $4 billion, no fan of the popular sci-fi film series or cinephile can deny their initial excitement for the saga's return to the silver-screen. Indeed, when murmurs and hushed whispers were spiralling around that a new trilogy of Star Wars films were set to become a reality, a new three-part arc that would expand on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and base its premise around new characters, it's hard to imagine not seeing a fan of the franchise not be galvanised by the saga's return and J.J.Abrams' Force Awakens  metaphorically demonstrated this adherent affection at the time of its release. Of course, the aforesaid franchise has gone-on to evolve from its own norm by introducing features that are prequels/spin-offs to main plot-line, as seen with Gareth Edwards' Rogue One . Yet, for...

Downgrade?! While it's not easy to perceive that producing/filming comedy-centric films is a hard feat in itself, considering this specific strain of films either hit-or-miss at the box-office, it's not uncommon either to fathom comedy's attempt in establishing franchises that try to compete with cinema's elite in action and superheroes. Indeed, from the vast array of acclaimed British comedy film franchises, such as the Carry On  and Monty Python, that tend to be the staple, to the more 'universally' accepted comedies like the Scary Movie or The Hangover productions that grossed in profit, it's interesting to fathom the evolution of comedy films since cinema's inception and how enveloped it's become to many other film genre's. This is specifically noticeable in Ryan Reynolds' efforts as Deadpool in the films of the same name that, although has an obvious superhero outlook, it's main aim is to please it's audience members wit...