The build up to Christmas now finds us at Bill Murray’s 1988 modern day retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon / The Goonies / Superman), the film represented Murray’s first return to a comedy lead role since the 1984 Ghostbusters (in fact he’d only really had one full lead role in that time
Read more
Well, here it is, the most current film in the X-Men series prior to the new release X-Men : Apocalypse – X-Men :Days of Future Past. Seeing Bryan Singer returning to the directorial duties for the first time in the series since X2 : X-Men United, this time with a screenplay by Simon Ginsberg who had previously written X-Men : The Last
Read more
Bursting onto the screens across the planet is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Captain America : Civil War – A film that is in many ways a mix of Captain America 3, Iron Man 4 and The Avengers 3. Its screenplay is by the combination of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (who have penned the previous
Read more
Following the disaster of Batman and Robin, the franchise went into somewhat of a stall having abandoned plans for a further Joel Schumacher film for the series. It was only in 2003 when the series was re-booted by Warner Brothers, this time with Christopher Nolan at the helm. The re-boot took the shape of the 2005 film Batman Begins, which
Read more
Fast on the heels of lead actress Bree Larson’s win as best actress in the recent Oscars we now turn our focus to the 2015 film Room which earned her that award. The film is directed by Lenny Abrahamson, whose most notable previous work was the 2014 Frank starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson. Based on the 2010 novel of the
Read more
You’ll believe a man can fly… 1978 saw the first true superhero on the modern day cinema screen with Richard Donner’s Superman. The first comic superhero, became the first one to become a motion picture, and at the time, the most expensive film ever made with a budget of $55M. Directing the film was Richard Donner, whose main success to
Read more
And so on ‘R’, only 2 days after Pulp Fiction, we take to Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut – Reservoir Dogs. Released in 1992, this dark crime thriller follows the tale of an attempted robbery by a group of criminals and the direct aftermath as the team regroup to try and understand what went wrong. The film has the traditional Tarantino ensemble
Read more
O. And to the Palestinian drama from 2013, ‘Omar’. For this tale, we follow Omar, a young man from Palestine who is secretly in love with his childhood friend Tarek’s younger sister Nadia. He, Tarek and a 3rd friend Amjad have grown up together and remain close. His relationship with Nadia has remained a secret from Tarek whilst Omar works
Read more
Well we’re off with the February Alphabet Challenge (Feb Alphabet Film Challenge), and we start with ‘The Aviator’. This phenomenal 2004 movie by Martin Scorcese is a biographical dramatisation about Howard Hughes. A man who was a multi millionaire movie director, oil drill bit marker, plane designer, and airline owner who is most famous for his descent into mental illness
Read more
The Big Short is the new film from director Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Other Guys), and is set in Wall Street in the build up to the 2007 collapse of the US housing market and subsequent economic issues, and based on the book by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side. The film opens is 2005 with Mark Burry (Christian Bale) runs
Read more
Film Geeky | Movie Reviews | New Movie Releases 