So we reach the latest (prior to the upcoming release of the new Captain America movie) film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – the 2015 Ant Man. Directed by Peyton Reed (Yes Man, The Break Up, Down with Love), the film has a screenplay that was written by the group of Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz),
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To the 60’s we head to review Legend – a biopic about the later years of London based gangsters the Krays. The film is both written and directed by Brian Helgeland, who has previously had significant success as a screenwriters with previous work that includes the script for both LA Confidential and Mystic River. In 2013 he wrote and directed
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For the first MCU film post The Avengers, Tony Stark returns in his third solo standalone film in 2013’s Iron Man 3. This is the first of the Stark films not directed by Jon Favreau, with Shane Black who had previously directed Robert Downey Jnr in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Much like that film, Black also wrote the screenplay, this
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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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The team of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg return from their 2010 comedy hit The Other Guys, with the new offering from director Sean Anders (We’re The Millers, Horrible Bosses 2, That’s My Boy), Daddy’s Home. Ferrell plays Brad Whitaker, an executive on the Panda smooth Jazz radio station, and married stepfather to his wife’s two children Megan and Dylan.
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The Survivalist is the directorial debut film by Stephen Fingleton, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. His only previous screenplay, beyond shorts, was a 2006 comedy – The Battersea Ripper). It’s set in a post apocalyptic environment and follows a man (played by Martin McCann – X+Y, Killing Bono) who is living in a forest in a
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There’s one man here, that will never kneel before you… The Man of Steel is back, in the 1980 film ‘Superman II’. Having filmed around 75% of the sequel to 1978’s Superman whilst filming the original, Richard Donner left the project, with Richard Lester (Hard Day’s Night, The Three Musketeers, Juggernaut) taking the role of director. Lester would go onto
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We return to Tim Burton’s Gotham for the 1992 sequel to Batman; Batman Returns. The film also saw the return of Michael Keaton in the lead role following the huge financial success of the first film. The original story for the film was partly written by Sam Hamm (as with the first film) with Daniel Waters replacing him and writing the
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For the penultimate day of the Alphabet Challenge, we turn to ‘Y’ and the 2013 ‘The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. This is adapted from the book ‘The Selected Works of T.S.Spivet’ and follows a young boy from Montana. T.S. is a prodigy who is obsessed with analysing patterns and maps. He lives on a ranch with his father
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For the Xth day of the Alphabet challenge, the film is ‘X + Y’, a 2014 film by the director Morgan Matthews. The film is based around a young boy called Nathan (played by Asa Butterfield – ‘Hugo’, ‘Enders Game’ and ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’). Nathan is a gifted mathematician however struggles with social skills and has a
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