Jackman is back as Logan aka. Mr Wolverine in the 2013 film The Wolverine – the 2nd standalone film featuring the character in the X-Men series. James Mangold is at the steering wheel for the film (for me the best of his previous work is Cop Land but also includes Girl, Interrupted, Knight and Day and Identity). Screenplay is by
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Even whilst in the writing and filming of X-Men : The Last Stand, the first Wolverine solo film was being developed, ultimately becoming X-Men Origins : Wolverine. Upon wrapping up the trilogy of X-Men films, the Origins story was an opportunity for the ‘How Wolverine became Wolverine’ tale to be focussed on. Directing the film was Gavin Hood (previously having
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The Avengers are back! We find the superhero team storming their way through Hydra bases seeking to reclaim the
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Tony Stark is back in the 2010 sequel to Iron Man and 3rd film in the MCU, Iron Man 2. Jon Favreau returns to direct the film, which had a $200m budget (compared to the $140m for Iron Man and $150m for The Incredible Hulk), with a script by Justin Theroux (previously having written Tropic Thunder). This film, serves essentially
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Following the 2003 Hulk disappointment (CGI especially didn’t work for me), Marvel studios had a second attempt at a Hulk central story with the 2008 The Incredible Hulk. The film was penned by Zak Penn, and directed by Louis Leterrier (previously of Transporter 2 and Unleashed). For the lead role, the reboot saw Eric Bana (from the earlier Hulk) with Edward Norton
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Here it is. The most hyped film of the year so far, and what is clearly the start of a big push to establish a Marvel-Esque universe film franchise for DC comic characters. Zak Snyder directs (following his work on Man of Steel) and the script is by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer (who had in varying levels on
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As we approach the end of ‘Batman v Superman – The FilmGeeky Cinematic Battle’, we turn our attention to the latest Superman offering in film, Zak Snyder’s 2013 Man of Steel. Rather than the approach of the previous reboot attempt Superman Returns, this seeks to start over again from the beginning. We find
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19 years after ‘Superman 4 : The Quest for Peace’ had met with damning reviews, the Superman franchise was rebooted with director Brian Singer at the helm. Singer was coming off two highly successful comic book movies – ‘X-Men‘ and ‘X2‘, and had apparently pitched the idea of a new Superman film to original director Richard Donner and his wife
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The final day of the Alphabet Challenge and of course for ‘Z’ we turn to the 2001 comedy ‘Zoolander’ both starring and directed by Ben Stiller (and in fairness part written by him as well), and the subject of a sequel currently in cinemas. Derek Zoolander may not be much of a thinker but is a superstar male model and
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The latest film by british director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, High Fidelity, Philomena) is ‘The Program’, the 2015 film about cyclist ‘Lance Armstrong’. It’s screenplay is by John Hodge (Transporting, Shallow Grave, Trance). For anyone that doesn’t already know, although they’re few and far between at this point, Lance Armstrong is a cyclist that won the ‘Tour De France’
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