The build up to Christmas now finds us at Bill Murray’s 1988 modern day retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon / The Goonies / Superman), the film represented Murray’s first return to a comedy lead role since the 1984 Ghostbusters (in fact he’d only really had one full lead role in that time
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Amongst the 2017 blockbusters will be the latest in the Transformer’s franchise – Transformers : The Last Knight. Again directed by Michael Bay, this will be the sequel to the Age of Extinction reboot that saw Mark Wahlberg take the ‘human’ lead in the 2014 film from Shia LeBouef in the prior 3. Tonight, Paramount released the first teaser trailer for
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So following my post last week about the teaser trailer for next summer’s Tom Cruise reboot of The Mummy, the first full official trailer is here…and spoiler alert – it looks goooood!
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Love…actually…is all around… As part of my Christmas build up, I’ve recently re-watched the 2003 Richard Curtis written and directed Love Actually. The film features a large ensemble cast and works across a number of different types of love stories weaving together through family relationships, coincidence and social links in a way that creates a hugely engaging tale in the
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Not so long since the release of the first teaser trailer for GOTG2, the follow up trailer has now been released by Marvel. As I worked through the entire MCU this year, GOTG was a high scorer (8/10 – Guardians of the Galaxy). One of the things I loved about it was the way that it cut through the traditions of
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Do you remember when Tom Cruise ‘didn’t do sequels’? Before Mission Impossible 2, it was something he’d never done. Since that point though, there is an increasing sense that the actor is looking to franchises as the basis for his box office strength. Not only has the mission impossible series now delivered over $2 billion, the most recent two films
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Boxing films have consistently outshone any other sport in cinema. Through decade after decade, if you look at the best sport film, it is regularly based around the sport of boxing. In 2015’s Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhall stars as Billy Hope, the middleweight champion of the world and husband to Maureen (Rachael McAdams) and father to their young daughter Leila (Oona
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Disney brings it’s latest musical animation to the big screen with the Polynesian culture inspired ‘Moana’. Directed by John Muster and Ron Clements (the double act whose previous work includes Disney hits such as Aladdin, Hercules and The Little Mermaid), this is a fusion of classic disney musical combined with a strong cultural theme and a shift away from the
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In what appears to be a now season of ‘Corey Feldman’ movies, the day after watching The Goonies, I turned to The Lost Boys. From 1987, directed by Joel Schumaker (who would of course go on to nearly kill the Batman franchise), and written by Jan Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam, the film is now a treasured classic for
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If you sit and make a list of films that capture the 1980’s, 1985’s ‘The Goonies‘ will always be fairly high up there for me. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner, with a screenplay by Christopher Columbus (who would go on to direct the first two Harry Potter films), this is a wonderful mix of romance, action,
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