As we continue our journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe (The Marvel Cinematic ‘Civil War’), we now turn to Captain America : The First Avenger, the 5th film in the series. Directing is Joe Johnston (most notable work prior was Jurassic Park III) and the script by the combination of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The casting of Cap went to
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So here is where it all started… What is now known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the basis of the April 2016 theme month) all started with the 2008 Iron Man. Based on the character from comics, the film is directed by Jon Favreau (previously having directed Swingers, Made, Elf and Zathura) with a script written by a combination of
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So in the final film in ‘Batman v Superman – The FilmGeeky Cinematic Battle‘ is the 2012 finale in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy – The Dark Knight Rises, set 8 years after the events of the Dark Knight. The death of Harvey Dent has led to the creation of the Dent Act – a set of increased powers for Gotham’s law
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…Wait ’til they get a load of me…. In 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman was released to high levels of anticipation. The project had been on and off for at least 10 years with Warner Brothers as regular disagreements took place about the right tone and approach to take to the film. Luckily for everyone, one pitch where Bill Murray would
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Trumbo is the new film from director Jay Roach, (whose previous work includes ‘Meet the Parents’, ‘Borat’ and ‘The Campaign’) and writer John McNamara. The film recounts the true story of Dalton Trumbo, played in the film by Bryan Cranston (TV’s Breaking Bad, and films including ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Argo’), who was a member of the ‘Hollywood Ten’ – a group
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Continuing our run in the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge), we’re upto ‘N’ and for this, we’re heading to ‘Nebraska’. This 2013 drama remains the most recent film by director Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways). It stars oscar nominated actor Bruce Dern (he’ll always be Freeman Lowell from 1972’s ‘Silent Running’ to me), as Woody Grant, an aged alcoholic retiree who
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For the 13th day of the Alphabet Challenge (https://filmgeeky.com/2016/01/31/the-february-alphabet-challenge/) we’re off to ‘M’ and more specifically ‘Miller’s Crossing’, the second film by the Coen brothers in the challenge so far. The film is very much in the tradition of film noir. It’s the 1930’s and our anti-hero is Irish Tom Reagan (played by Gabriel Byrne). Reagon works for a local gangster
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The daily ‘Alphabet Challenge’ is on day 11 and it’s ‘K’ today. The film ‘Kajaki’ is based on a true story of a unit of the british army based in Afghanistan, close to the Kajaki Dam. The story follows the unit as they initially spend day after day in relative monotony, until the decision is made for three of the
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For our day of ‘H’ in the Alphabet challenge, it’s off to a ship called the ‘Rosen’ which falls victim to a hijacking by Somali pirates in the 2012 danish film ‘A Hijacking’ (or Kapringen to use it’s original danish title). The ship is a merchant ship with a small crew of 7 men employed by the danish shipping company
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I’m not sure that the UK music industry has gotten over the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011, from alcohol poisoning. It’s that very story that is captured through the 2015 documentary ‘Amy’ directed by Asif Kapadia (whose previous work includes Senna – an equally touching film). There is a significant amount of footage that has been acquired by Kapadia
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