Pictures on the Fly

Now that 2015 has come and gone, looking back, a lot of film fans have noticed that the majority of movies this past year have been pulling on their nostalgia strings. Bringing back popular nostalgic franchises such as; Mad Max , Jurassic Park , Terminator , and finally Star Wars . With the return of these franchises, as nice as it is to see new takes on these properties, the responses have been very split down the middle. Some have been phenomenally praised by fans and critics, others have been mercilessly panned by the latter. With that said, it's safe to say that 2015 has been an eventful year for movies. Over the years, I've asked myself, and others, something that always gets me when regarding movies like these, "Why now?" The majority of these movies debuted decades ago. Some long before we were born, depending on what generation we're talking about. But why do filmmakers insist on either continuing stories that ended on a pretty conclusive note at the en