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Film analysis: Why do live-action remakes keep happening?

Why do live-action remakes keep happening? Is it nostalgia, a money-making scheme, or have writers simply run out of ideas? Film News...

Stills of Tom Holland in costume as Spider-Man, alongside Zendaya as MJ

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Film analysis: Will ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ live up to the hype?

On 31 July 2026, the long-awaited Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings into cinemas, and the hype around it is enormous. Fans have...

Split image: (Left) Ryan Gosling sat in a spaceship in Project Hail Mary, (right) Margot Robbie standing face to face with Jacob Elordi amid a cloudy backdrop in Withering Heights

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Film analysis: Have book adaptations taken over the big screen?

From Wuthering Heights to Project Hail Mary, cinemas have seen plenty of adaptations of well-known literature in recent times. There have been...

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Romcom revival: Romantic comedies are back!

Romantic comedies dominated the box office throughout the 1990s and 2000s, but look set for a resurgence after a period of stagnation....

Stills from the Lost Boys. Left: three boys in 80s attire look concerned. Right: four blood-stained vampires stand together in a dark forest.

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Film analysis: How ‘The Lost Boys’ created the teen vampire genre

Following the debut of The Lost Boys Musical on Broadway at the Palace Theatre, Film News Blitz’s Darshan Kaur Gill revisits the...

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm and Histoire(s) du Cinema

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Film analysis: The underappreciated nature of documentary filmmaking

It seems that in our current landscapes, the documentary is for many just a fact study of nature or of war, but...

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Anime

Anime film analysis: How ‘Akira’ still blows minds 38 years later

Released in 1988, Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk masterpiece ‘Akira’ still has people jaw-dropped by its existence, its hand-painted images, and iconic bike slide.

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Film opinion: Three 2026 films that deserve more love

We’re only a third of the way through the year, but there are already a number of 2026 films that have flown...

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Awards

Podcast: ‘A Friendly Film Take’ – Do the Oscars need fixing?

The 2026 Oscars are done and dusted, and Dan Lawrence is joined once again by Oscar Trinick for a post-show post-mortem on...

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Film news: Fears amid Paramount taking Warner Bros. from Netflix

Last week, in a matter of days, Paramount usurped Netflix to become the party in waiting to purchase Warner Bros. A deal...

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Film analysis: Why do live-action remakes keep happening?

Film analysis: Will ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ live up to the hype?

Film analysis: Have book adaptations taken over the big screen?

Romcom revival: Romantic comedies are back!

Film analysis: How ‘The Lost Boys’ created the teen vampire genre

Film analysis: The underappreciated nature of documentary filmmaking

Anime film analysis: How ‘Akira’ still blows minds 38 years later

Film opinion: Three 2026 films that deserve more love

Podcast: ‘A Friendly Film Take’ – Do the Oscars need fixing?

Film news: Fears amid Paramount taking Warner Bros. from Netflix

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