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A Wild Time Since its announcement in July 2013, the prospect of a live action remake of Disney’s The Jungle Book made filmgoers sceptical. The idea sounded like another potential hash job based on popular, already-existing material for the sake of creating a new cash cow franchise, even if critical responses were negative. It seemed like it wouldn’t be a decent film in its own right. With the utilisation of technology; direction, performances combined together with a drive to actually create compelling story, the 2016 remake of The Jungle Book will positively prove naysayers wrong. Settings & Characters No location film sets were used for the creation of this film. From principal photography to the film itself, everything had taken place at L.A Center Studios in Los Angeles, with CGI taking care of the rest. Unless you were told this directly before viewing, The Jungle Book’s visuals would fool you completely into thinking otherwise. The visuals are astoundingly ...

A Platinum Insight As of a few days ago, the demo for Final Fantasy XV titled “Platinum Demo: Final Fantasy XV” has made its way onto the Playstation and Xbox Live stores, free to download. After around 40 minutes, the special demo offers an unexpected and unique insight into the main games’ protagonist. Is it worth your time? Definitely. The entirety of the Platinum demo is a dream sequence within the mind of Final Fantasy XV’s main character, Noct, as a young boy. Being guided via telepathic text message with a Carbuncle (adorable unicorn, rabbit, cat-thing), the demo takes you through four different levels. Each level has its own intriguing scenery, music and several gameplay elements added casually whilst journeying from one dream level to another. Visuals Awwww! Whilst not a massive package of gameplay, the demo is more of an engaging showcase that tries to suck in the player to show what this world can be. Even though these levels are all parts of a dre...

 Dawn of Justice: The DCU Rush-Job Batman V Superman: It’s not a great film. It’s not a bad film either. It’s an experience which had an incredible amount of potential from the title alone. The result: with certain great performances aside, it has followed other instalments to franchises that buckle under the heavy and unnecessary chore, to sell cinema tickets for films that don’t even exist yet (looking at you, Amazing Spidey 2). How does the film actually deliver on the promise of its name? The answer: “Meh”. Characters & Casting Firstly, let’s get positive. Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman is a triumph. Damaged; violent, brutal, bitter and fuelled with rage. Batfleck carries out a much darker version of the caped crusader that has exceeded expectations by far. The character’s train of thought and motivations connect beautifully as a hero who is clearly worn down by tragedies of his past. He is now facing a god-like being whose existence creates dire ...