For Day ‘V’ of the Alphabet challenge, its to Japanese Anime ‘Vexille’ from 2007. Vexille is a futuristic tale set in 2077, about the US based ‘Sword’ defence group that are conducting an investigation into Japan and the Daiwa Heavy Industry corporation. In recent years, Japan has increasingly withdrawn from engagement with the rest of the world, at the same
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Continuing the ‘post Governator’ era of his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this 2014 action thriller, directed and jointly written by David Ayer. Ayer was the writer of ‘Training Day’ but moved into directing in 2005 with ‘Harsh Times’ and 2012 ‘End of Watch’. Sabotage stars Arnie as leader of a highly ranked DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) team. The group
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The Day of ‘L’ and off to a small town in the US close to the Mexican border, called Sommerton Junction. Whilst normally being a quiet enough town, it’s about to become the location for a wealthy and powerful criminal, on the run from the FBI in a super speed sports car, to cross the border to Mexico. And all
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It there life on Mars? Or more specifically, on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. And that’s where we are off to for Day ‘E’ of the Alphabet challenge… This 2013 film by director Sebastian Cordero is a fictional tale of 6 astronauts on a mission to reach Europa and conduct tests to answer that very question. Early on in the film, we
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This 2014 spy action thriller sees the latest attempt to reinvigorate the Jack Ryan franchise based on the character written by Tom Clancy over a series of novels. This time, its Chris Pine (most well known for his turn as Captain Kirk in the JJ Abrams rebooted Star Trek films) that takes on the role of Ryan in this Kenneth
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Out in cinemas now, ‘Joy’ sees David O’Russell reunited with a number of cast members that he has worked with before, to tell the story of Joy Margano, the inventor of the Magic Mop. Joy, played by Jennifer Lawrence (or J-Law to the paparazzo), sees the telling of a true story of Margano on her rags to riches story, in
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**Warning – This is riddled with spoilers** Let’s try and come up with the perfect James Bond film. You and I right now, lets try and come up with the story that somehow encapsulates the best of the Bond franchise so far. Ok, so. Lets start with the villain. Easy – That’s got to be Ernst Stavro Blofelt. Don’t forget
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