Neil Gregory
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Film and TV obsessive / World Traveller / Gamer / Camerman & Editor / Guitarist
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'Venom' Review (And Why Do We Knowingly Go to Bad Movies?)
I knew Venom was going to bad, it wasn't Fantastic Four (the Josh Trank abomination) terrible but with the talent involved behind and onscreen it's a huge disappointment. Yet still I went to the cinema and watched a paint-by-the-numbers superhero film that didn't know what type of film it wanted to be or who its audience was.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Geeks
'Bumblebee' Preview (Or, Why There Could Finally Be a Good Transformers Movie)
Like many I'm a child of the 1980s meaning I used to love Transformers, I remember paying a few pound for the original VW Bumblebee that is still packed away safely in my attic. I would watch the G1 cartoon religiously over and over again and when Transformers The Movie came out in 1986 it was all that mattered in life to see it in the cinema.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Geeks
- Top Story - September 2018
'The Boys' Casting News (Amazon 2019)Top Story - September 2018
A few months ago I wrote about my excitement for the news that production was gearing up to start on Amazon's TV adaptation of Garth Ennis's The Boys. Some of the early casting had been announced, but here I'm going to run through the main character cast list for the recently wrapped Season 1 and look at how the casting matches up against the graphic novels characters.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Geeks
Netflix Casts Its 'Witcher'
With HBO's Game of Thrones heading out on its farewell tour next year, there is going to be a chasm-like gap for epic adult fantasy in TV land. Though Amazon is spending all the money on its Lord of the Rings show, it will be most likely be more PG rated than the much more adult orientated Thrones.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Geeks
'Y: The Last Man' TV Preview 2019
The comic book craze continues with Brian K Vaughan's Y: The Last Man headed to our screens sometime in 2019. Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic tale of gender, race, class, and survival; when a disease wipes out almost every living creature with a Y chromosome, only slacker Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand survive the global pandemic.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Geeks
'10 Cloverfield Lane'
So is this film a sequel and connected to Cloverfield? Err, well, no and kind of are the simple answers. Writers Josh Campbell & Matthew Stuecken (if you believe the sources) wrote a woman in confinement script called The Cellar and then was retitled Valencia. Then, at some point, JJ Abrams gets involved and the start of the film is very slightly tweaked, and a brand new ending connecting it to the Cloverfield world is developed.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Horror
'The Witch'
Too often modern horror movies are not scary in the traditional sense. Classic horror films would unnerve you and stay with you for weeks after viewing them. Modern films tend to have people running around in the dark, screaming with dodgy camera work and every scare in the film is down to loud music cues and flash editing. In other words, the story itself isn’t scary or getting a reaction. The filmmakers have to use simple tools to get a response from the audience.
By Neil Gregory6 years ago in Horror