Review – Godzilla : King of the Monsters
The follow up to the 2014 Godzilla offers a CGI ridden Monster battle-fest, but lacks any real sense, logic or credible plot.
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Review – Suburbicon
George Clooney returns as director for the first time since the 2014 critical and commercial disappointment The Monuments Men, in the new film suburb become. Set in 1959 in the fictional town of Suburbicon – a peaceful and idyllic community and the perfect place to raise a family – the film film follows lows the lodge family. In the lead
Read moreReview – Elysium
Elyisum is a 2013 sci-fi action thriller starring Matt Damon, which represented the first feature film by director Neill Blomkamp since the 2009 District 9. Set in a dystopian future, where the Earth has become so polluted that the richest of the planet took to a new home, the gigantic space station – Elysium. With conditions similar to Earth, the
Read moreReview – Queen and Country
For the ‘Q’ film of the Alphabet Challenge (always tricky this letter), we now look to Queen and Country, the 2014 british comedy drama. The film, both written and directed by John Boorman, is a sequel to the 1997 film Hope and Glory. Set in the 1950’s the film follows the two characters of Bill Rohan (played by Callum Turner)
Read moreReview – Open Range
For O in the Alphabet Challenge, we’re off to the Kevin Costner’s western drama Open Range from 2003. Costner both starred and directed the film, which was written by Craig Storper. The film stars Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall as two cattle men that are driving their herd across Montana. Costner plays Charley Waite – one of the team run
Read moreReview – No Man of Her Own
N in the Alphabet Challenge, is No Man of Her Own, the 1950’s film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck in the main role and was directed by Mitchell Leisen. The film is based on the novel ‘I married a dead man’ by Cornell Woolrich. The film sees Stanwyck as Helen Ferguson, a pregnant lady disowned by the baby’s father Stephen
Read moreReview – The Lonely Man
For the ‘L’ film of the Alphabet Challenge, we go to the 1957 black and white western The Lonely Man. Directed by Henry Levin, the film was written by the pairing of Harry Essex and Robert Smith. The film tells the story of Jacob Wade (played by Jack Palance) a former gunslinger, who abandoned his wife and son a number
Read moreReview – Basic
To Panama we head for the 2nd film of this year’s Alphabet Challenge and to the 2003 film Basic. Directed by John McTiernan, the film is a military mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and was written by James Vanderbilt. Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy (yep really!) who is called upon one evening by a former
Read moreReview – Keeping Up with the Joneses
Today we turn to the 2016 comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses directed by Greg Mottola (previous highlights include Superbad, Adventureland and Paul) and written by Michael LeSieur (The Heist and You, Me and Dupree). Zach Galifianakis, and Isla Fisher star and Jeff (works in the HR department of an aeronautical engineering company) who and Karen Gaffney a married couple
Read moreReview – Jack Reacher : Never Go Back
Tom Cruise returns as Jack Reacher (from the series of novels by Lee Child) in a rare sequel for the biggest movie star on the planet. In ‘Jack Reacher : Never Go Back’ Reacher is drawn into a conspiracy within his former battalion when he returns to meet Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders). Ultimately for the promise offered by Cruise’s
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