31 May 2019
01 September 2018
JACK RYAN on Amazon Prime. First Impressions? Fun. Competent. Perfectly Polished. Satisfying Watch. Clancy would approve. And YET..
JACK RYAN IS BACK. AGAIN. It’s THE most elusive thing in the Media Biz: HOW to ‘nail’ the Clancy-verse Jack Ryan Character on film. For a new Generation. Answer: Do it on Television! But not just ANY Television: AMAZON PRIME! Yes. Jack Ryan! What do you mean you’ve...
08 August 2018
DEBRIEF on MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE -FALLOUT.
FIELD REPORT: MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT AGENT JAMES MURPHY, Reporting for Duty.. There was little point in ‘reviewing’ Mission:Impossible-FALLOUT. When one reads a consensus of reviews that sing a movie’s praises in all the same ways? Chances are..they have a point. More fun to just sit back and enjoy the...
30 July 2018
Comic Con London July 2018: NO WAY OUT of Here! Featuring The Lovely Sean Young, Miranda Richardson, Helen Atkinson Wood, The world’s greatest Artists and Cosplayers, At Least Seven Doctor Whos, Ebony Maw, Jack O’Halloran and AQUAMAN!
COMIC CON LONDON SHOWMASTERS JULY 2018 DEBRIEF: NOW I know what they mean by a ‘sweaty’ in the Fan world! So I went. And I survived! Comic Con, London. I have a complicated relationship with these events. When we acquired Movie Viral back in 2015, I...
26 July 2018
Throwback Thursday Viral Vault : James Murphy looks back and chooses to accept the FIRST and arguably BEST Mission : Impossible (1996)
TBT/M:I-1/1996/JJPM / @JOB 3:14/ ‘RED LIGHT! GREEN LIGHT!’. NB SPOILER ALERT: CONSIDER GOODS TAINTED AND EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS 😉 Yep. FALLOUT has received universal praise, and yet again features some magnificent stunts and set pieces. Should do good Box Office. And at the centre, quite literally, of all that...
09 July 2018
Indiana Jones 5 Delayed; Hercule Poirot part deux gets Fast-Tracked. What’s wrong with this Picture? James Murphy is on the Case for Movie-Viral. And the Adventure of a Lifetime!
Indiana Jones and the Lazy Heart of Hercule’s Hollywood: What one film’s delay and another’s fast-tracking say about the state of Cinema.. By James Murphy Editorial (Nb: it’s a bit of a long one..but then so are many so called ‘blockbusters’ nowadays so..yep. Far Harder to write a short...
