"Venom": back in the nineties
The genre of motion picture comics continues to gain popularity, but in recent years it seems Marvel and its disney stories have virtually become monopolists in this market. Yes, DC…

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History of self-censorship in Hollywood (part 1)
Censorship is a familiar word for everyone who grew up in the former Soviet republics. It is feared, it is hated, it is reproached, but one of the most terrible…

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The ghoulish seven: top scariest movies of the 2000s (part 1)
Have you ever wondered about the reason for such a wide popularity of the horror genre? Is it normal to watch people suffer on the screen? Well, it depends what…

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“Fantastic beasts: the crimes of green de walda”: the darkness of heartache

What certainly expects the viewer, going to the film on the universe of “Harry Potter”? Most likely, the feeling of magic, tales — sometimes naive, sometimes harsh, sometimes too close to real life. “Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald “(Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald), the second film in the series” Fantastic creatures”, traditionally released in the winter season. But this time the new year’s magic did not help him.

It should be noted that the franchise “Harry Potter” has had a huge impact on mass culture. Perhaps, on popularity from book series and their adaptations its surpasses, wasn that, “the Lord of the rings” – but books Professor and there are longer, and, say honestly, have more fertile the ground for multi-year discussions.But the success of “Harry Potter” is not a secret, and it is logical that such a cash cow should not be missed. In the first “Fantastic beasts”, events which occur about a century before all the pandemonium with the boy with the scar, the viewer is enticed by the atmosphere and mantle: follow the adventures of a shy magical zoologist and animals in the distant, incomprehensible and harsh to America was very exciting and damn magical. Continue reading

Game of thrones: Game over

Today (Moscow time, in fact, tomorrow) in the world rolling out the eighth and final season of the series “Game of thrones”. Let’s try to analyze the reason for such a furious popularity, and at the same time remember the most spectacular moments of the film adaptation.

In truth, the word “series” is not too to face this large-scale project, which broke all possible records. For example, the sixth season gathered about 26 million viewers per episode, thus becoming the most popular in the history of HBO. And the fee of each actor who played the title character in the seventh season was about $ 2.5 million per episode.George Martin, who wrote not only the book, divided into several parts, but also worked on the script, repeatedly appealed to disgruntled readers/viewers, explaining the reasons for the inconsistency of the original source of the series: “If we were to film in detail each part, we would still shoot the first book. Continue reading

"Chronicles of predatory cities": the triumph of the picture over the meaning
Authors, artists and other creators regularly come up with a variety of ends of the world for our world, describe in detail the worlds that grow out of the ashes…

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"Draft": in this world, the book was spoiled
What book adaptations can be called successful? The first head of the average citizen is likely to be "Lord of the rings" "Hobbit" and "Harry Potter", more sophisticated remember, for…

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Scary evil: eight charismatic maniacs from the world of cinema (part 2)
7. Maniac (Bloody harvest/FR. Haute tension, France, 2003) French Thriller directed by Alexander Azhe ("Mirrors", "the hills have eyes") in our collection — a kind of delicacy before dessert... This…

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