By Nick Maylor Yesterday, Black Panther became the first superhero movie nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama). Disney and Marvel are pushing hard for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for the film and their chances have just improved significantly. Black Panther is one of the best films I have seen this…
By Nick Maylor The long-awaiting first look at the fourth Avengers film Avengers: Endgame was released this morning and gave us a sense of where the film picks up after the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The surviving Avengers have regrouped at their base in upstate New York. Tony Stark is adrift in space with “no hope of…
By Nick Maylor While Marvel Studios has been incredibly secretive about when they will drop the first teaser for the yet untitled fourth Avengers film, we just got served a piping-hot dish of superhero sauce with this action-packed look at Captain Marvel (2019) In the trailer, we see Carol Danvers’ flashbacks to her life on Earth along with a…
By Nick Maylor Due to the constant stream of new films released each year and the general progression of life, this list could be entirely different if I were to write it six months, 5 years or 2 days from now. Amongst the countless honourable mentions are films like Batman (1989), Batman Begins (2005), Iron Man (2008),…
By Nick Maylor Movie trailers are an art form unto themselves. We all know the feeling of seeing one that gets us completely jazzed for a forthcoming film. Recently, I experienced that feeling when a certain 2019 film released its first teaser. That film is included on my list here. Over the years, many previews have…
By Nick Maylor I’m not a huge fan of having to rank things in numerical order. It’s hard to decide which performance, moment or movie is objectively better than any other (at any given time). However, there have been 10 theatrically-released, live-action films in the series; Episodes I through VI in the “saga” films and…
By Nick Maylor It’s been a rough couple of years for fanboys. Adam West, Steve Ditko and now, the man, the legend, Stan Lee has shuffled loose the mortal coil. The king of cameo acting and co-creator of Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and so many more, Stan Lee…
November 11th is Remembrance Day here in Canada. For our American neighbours, it is Veterans Day and is also known as Armistice Day. We here at Foote & Friends On Film decided to offer a few recommendations for films that shine a spotlight on war times and those to whom we owe our freedom. Please…
By Nick Maylor My mother grew up in England and in the 1960s, Halloween wasn’t really a thing. However, less than a week after October 31st would be Guy Fawkes night. For the week leading up to November 5th, kids would go door-to-door, collecting firewood and other sundry items that would be set ablaze on…
By Nick Maylor 2018 has been an exceptional year for actors-turned-directors. John Krasinski received widespread acclaim for his directorial debut A Quiet Place, co-starring his wife Emily Blunt. Bradley Cooper knocked it out of the park with his first outing behind the camera; the Oscar-bound remake A Star is Born. Although not his first outing as a…