joe cornish
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6 Shows and Movies That Do Coming-of-Age Nostalgia Right (And 4 That Don’t)
Recapturing the magic of classic movies — or at least trying to — has been a staple of pop culture’s obsession with nostalgia, Stranger Things being one current example. Entertainment has a specific fixation with growing up pre-internet, something that can be evoked to make a meaningful impact, but can also come across as merely…
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Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish Has Decided to Make Mark Millar’s Starlight Into a Movie, of All Things
The three movies Joe Cornish has directed have been the incredible Attack the Block, the serviceable The Kid Who Would Be King, and the long-awaited upcoming adaptation of Neal Stepherson’s Snow Crash. So, sure, why not have his next movie be about an old, grumpy John Carter wannabe, who’s called in for one last mission…
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HBO Max Is Moving Forward With Another Try At Adapting Snow Crash
If you ask any random fan off the street how to get into cyberpunk or science fiction influenced by cyberpunk, there’s a solid chance they’re going to tell you to read Snow Crash. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 classic is a massively influential cyber dystopian work that prefigured a lot of what modern cyberpunk pastiche fiction would…
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I’m Totally Here For The Retro Camp In The Kid Who Would Be King’s First Trailer
Video: The first trailer for The Kid Who Would Be King, from the director of Attack the Block, looks to be your classic cheesy family fare, about a boy who finds the Sword of Excalibur and trains an army of tweens to fight fiery demons from Hell. Wait, hold on a second.