You might have noticed this blog has been on an extended hiatus these past few weeks. Truth is I've stopped enjoying writing longer reviews, and as I'm getting busier with other projects in my life, it's time for this one to come to its conclusion.
Never say never to it coming back, I'm not huge on leaving things unfinished, but let's call this hiatus indefinite.
It’s our final look at Locke and Key, as both sides converge on the Black Door, who will prevail? Let’s find out.
Coming off getting a DC Universe subscription a few months back, I now have a Marvel unlimited subscription, so what does the Marvel Universe have to offer. Well, let’s take a look at this annual issue. Full disclosure, my knowledge of the X-men is limited. I’ve seen Wolverine and the X-men, and the movies. Yes, I haven’t actually seen the 90s show, sacrilege I know, but I was always more of a DC fan. I’m going into this more blind than I ever have before, lets see if this comic really does follow Stan Lee’s mantra ‘every comic is someone’s first’
We continue with Locke and Key as the mysteries have been heating up, and some of those lines from the poem are actually from the future? Let’s take a look and find out which
Disney has definitely shown determination to continue to support its streaming service, whilst they don’t have the power of Netflix, which may well be a good thing given Netflix’s shaky financials, they certainly have a bunch of original films and tv shows to show off, many of them with a larger than average budget. We’ll be looking at the Marvel side of that soon, but today we’re going to look at the adaptation of Artemis Fowl, and why, despite having many of its core plot points, it's not a good adaptation.
Artemis Fowl was written by Eoin Coffer and released in 2011, it has spawned a successful series of 8 books, and a spin-off trilogy. Disney had helped publish some of the later novels, which appear to have had a bunch of different publishers over the years, so they were in a good position to vie for an adaptation. Originally intended for a theatrical release in 2020, covid changed their plans and it ended up being released on Disney+ instead. The film had a budget of $125m, that’s very expensive for a streaming film.
But the reception to the film with critics was pretty cold, with a mere 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. What happened here then? Let’s take a look.
We’re taking another look at Locke and Key, what does the head key mean for the Locke siblings and their mother, well, let’s take a look.
Being a spy is a dangerous game, never being sure who to trust, danger around every corner and having commit acts of malice in a crowd of enemies. But sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture, sometimes you need a… bird’s eye view
OK, it was a
cheap joke but seriously, we’re looking at the last major effort of Blue-Sky
Studios before it was absorbed into the House of Mouse. Blue Sky Studios is a
mid-tier animation studio, most famously behind the Ice Age Films. The
animation doesn’t carry the high bar of Pixar films, but bears a slightly
higher prestige than say Illumination.
Anyway,
Spies in disguise, based on the short film Pigeon: Impossible, though loosely
from what I can tell, the film has a full-on celebrity voice cast featuring
Will Smith, Tom Holland, Karen Gillen, Ben Mendelsohn and… DJ Khaled?
Anyway, the film released in December 2019 to a fairly positive reception but that didn’t translate well to money at the box office, the film received only $150m on its $100m budget. I don’t think Disney really cared whether this made money or not. Let’s dive in and see whether or not that’s a justified position.
