
James Harvey
Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor at Film Stories
Film journalist? In/on @filmstories, @bbc5live, @TotalFilm, @greatbigstory, @whynowworld. Contact: jamesharvey.freelance at https://t.co/GwmU8ULkcv. He/him.
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2 weeks ago |
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey
Do you have a massive NEO Magazine collection? Academia needs you! Check out our letter from the NEO Magazine Archive project below. Calling all anime-heads! The University of Greenwich is putting together an archive of the much-missed NEO Magazine – a UK-based treasure trove celebrating East Asian culture – and has put a public call out for the last 15 issues missing from its collection. Check out the letter in full below:Attention all fans of anime, manga, and particularly NEO Magazine.
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2 weeks ago |
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey
With Karate Kid: Legends struggling at the box office and a Jack Ryan flick on the way, can the film-to-TV pipeline ever reverse course? A mild spoiler for The Last Of Us lies ahead. By most box office metrics, The Karate Kid: Legends is doing fine. Produced for a modest $45m and with global receipts standing at $74m, the film will likely be in profit by the end of the month. Not that you’d think that looking at most of its coverage.
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2 weeks ago |
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey
With Karate Kid: Legends struggling at the box office and a Jack Ryan flick on the way, can the film-to-TV pipeline ever reverse course? Minor plot details of The Last Of Us, Captain America: Brave New World and Jack Ryan lie ahead. By most box office metrics, The Karate Kid: Legends is doing fine. Produced for a modest $45m and with global receipts standing at $74m, the film will likely be in profit by the end of the month. Not that you’d think that looking at most of its coverage.
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3 weeks ago |
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey
Cat Davies and director Ate de Jong revisit cult Rik Mayall hit, Drop Dead Fred. This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 26 in 2021. It’s a film that could have catapulted one of Britain’s most influential small screen stars onto the Hollywood stage.
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1 month ago |
filmstories.co.uk | James Harvey
An estranged folk duo reunite for a private gig on an eccentric millionaire’s Welsh island in a thoroughly charming almost-rom-com. Here’s our The Ballad Of Wallis Island review. The Ballad Of Wallis Island is a film of returns. Writer-performers Tom Basden and Tim Key (plus director James Griffiths) are returning to the short film which earned them a BAFTA nomination in 2008.
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The Ballad of Wallis Island is so much my jam* I might start selling it at a farmer's market. Review for @filmstories *This ref doesn't really work, but "so much my chutney" feels obtuse. https://t.co/HjNw7XpyKN

Lilo & Stitch deserves to be exiled into space and obliterated with a plasma cannon before it can learn the meaning of ‘ohana’. Review for @filmstories https://t.co/455YM81c45

Spent most of this week watching the new season of Black Mirror, exactly 50% of which is the best the series has been in years. Find out which 50% in the individual episode reviews here (I can't be arsed to find a down arrow emoji). https://t.co/2ipe1orpch