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  • Avatar: The Way of Water vs. the sheer Weight of Expectation…

    It’s over ten years since Jake Scully went undercover, taking on the ‘avatar’ from of a member of the Na’vi tribe on the planet of Pandora and ultimately going AWOL from his unit to protect the indigenous tribes from the Earth people determined to steal the planet’s resources. Now...
  • Snap! ‘Avatar’ reclaims top-spot from ‘Avengers: Endgame’…

    For a long time, James Cameron’s Avatar maintained the position of ‘most successful film of all time’, essentially taking that top spot from his own Titanic outing. The film, a ground-breaking mixture of motion-capture, CGI and human characters, was a massive financial success (and a reasonable critical one) that...
  • The Disney Decade: Avatars delayed, Star Wars extended…

    It’s been  mixed bag of news coming out of Disney as they realign some of their film release intentions in the wake of their massive merger with Fox. It means there are going to be some significant changes to their release schedules with the most notable changes being to...
  • The (Alien) Life Aquatic? ‘Avatar’ sequels wrap…

    It seems an age ago that Avatar made such a big splash at the box-office with James Cameron once again pushing the boundaries of technology to achieve his visions. It was actually 2009, so technically the industry probably has entered a new era since.  The story of humanity’s impact...
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