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The first time I saw a picture of Olaf from Frozen I involuntarily shuddered. This bucktoothed snowman monstrosity looked like the annoying Disney sidekick cranked up to 11. Then I saw the film and, miracle of miracles, Olaf was not just tolerable but actually pretty funny and had a great song.
Unlike Jack Dawson, Titanic fans seem to have a real difficulty with letting go of things. That's why James Cameron, 20 years after the release of the film, is still being accosted by viewers annoyed that he killed off Jack. Then again, we've all thought that there must be room on that floating door for two. After all, skinny young Leonardo DiCaprio can't weigh that much, right?
David Fincher has always seemed to me like an auteur kind of director who makes pretty much whatever he wants to. So it's always felt like an odd decision for him to take the reins of World War Z 2, a sequel to a middlingly received 2013 zombie film that most people have completely forgotten.
Launching a brand new network TV show not based on an existing property is a difficult prospect at the best of times, but when the star of the series has just been accused of multiple acts of sexual assault, it's probably time to throw in the towel. And that's exactly what CBS has done with new Jeremy Piven vehicle Wisdom of the Crowd, which is about a Silicon Tech valley genius who uses crowdsourcing to solve crimes (apparently, it's terrible).
Not just satisfied with creating the multi-billion dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe (which will apparently continue until the heat death of the universe), Kevin Feige has another feather to his cap: he had a major hand in crafting Wolverine's hairdo in the original X-Men back in 2000.
Say what you like about the woes of the DCEU, but at least it gave us Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman. The film not only proved that a female-fronted superhero movie could be a box office hit, but is a cut above most other blockbusters in characterization, narrative scope and cinematography.
It's always worth giving James Cameron the benefit of the doubt. Before release, Titanic was widely seen as an overly extravagant disaster in waiting, before becoming the highest grossing film of all-time. In run-up up to Avatar, many were questioning who this movie about weird blue alien cat people would appeal to. It then passed Titanic and became the highest grossing pic of all-time. Are you seeing a pattern here? Despite that, 20th Century Fox's decision to go full steam ahead with four Avatar sequels feels a teeny bit foolhardy, especially as people don't seem to be clamoring for them.
I don't know about you, but I'm almost at the point where I want to go into a news blackout about Star Wars: The Last Jedi for fear of spoiling the film too much. The last couple of weeks have seen a load of pics, toys, TV spots and even leaked footage from the movie itself, and I wonder whether I'm seeing too much of it. Even Rian Johnson is unsure about whether fans should watch the trailers and Mark Hamill is urging people not to spoil the film for others. But even with all that in mind, what could one little picture of some stormtroopers hurt?
Right now the DCEU is in a state of flux. If everything had gone to plan, Justice League would have been the critical and commercial equal to Marvel's Avengers and kicked off a hotly anticipated phase of DC characters solo movies. With the film a bit of a disaster, however, things are up in the air for Warner Bros. And their problems couldn't be better illustrated than the current fix they're in regarding the casting of Iris West in Flashpoint.
2018 marks a decade since Robert Downey Jr. strapped himself into an experimental metal suit and blasted himself halfway across a desert. With every subsequent cinematic appearance that Iron Man armor got sleeker and more impressive, as did the MCU films they featured in. But all good things must come to an end, and it's looking as if Avengers 4 might see the final appearances from some of the all-time greatest movie superheroes.