Review – A Star is Born (2018)
A moving and emotional addition to the famous series of film which sees two impressive debuts of Bradley Cooper as director, and Lady Gaga in an acting role. #StarIsBorn #MovieReview
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Review – Avengers : Endgame
Avengers : Endgame represents one of the biggest moments in modern day cinema, with the film bringing the first 3 phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a rip roaring, victory lap of a crescendo. “We’re in the end game now” Doctor Strange, Avengers : Infinity War The film finds the remaining members of the avengers years after the climax
Read moreReview – Avengers : Infinity War
*Firstly – a disclaimer. I try to avoid any spoilers, and I have here. But please, if you are worried, then don’t read this until you’ve seen the film incase I’ve inferred a plot point inadvertanlty* 10 years on from the initial launch of the MCU with 2008’s Iron Man, the gigantic event movie of Avengers : Infinity War has
Read moreReview – War Dogs
War Dogs, the 2016 film by director Todd Phillips (Old School, Due Date, The Hangover Trilogy), is the true story of two twenty something Americans who managed to work their way into the world of arms trading during the late 2000’s. It is partly based on the book Arms and the Dudes by Guy Lawson. Somewhat of a comedy drama,
Read moreReview – American Sniper
American Sniper was the 2014 biopic directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper in the lead role as US Sniper Chris Kyle. It was written by Jason Hall and based on a book of the same name written by Kyle. The film recounts the tale of Kyle, the desist sniper in US military history, ranging from brief moments from
Read moreTrailer – Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Not so long since the release of the first teaser trailer for GOTG2, the follow up trailer has now been released by Marvel. As I worked through the entire MCU this year, GOTG was a high scorer (8/10 – Guardians of the Galaxy). One of the things I loved about it was the way that it cut through the traditions of
Read moreReview – Guardians of the Galaxy
To the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe we head to a very different location to the previous ones, and into the wonders of space for Marvel’s equivalent of The Dirty Dozen 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Directed by James Gunn and co-written by Gunn and Nicole Perlman. In 1988, a young boy called Peter Quill is abducted from outside
Read moreReview : Burnt
Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a former superstar chef, who has just completed his self imposed penance of shelling 1 million oysters over a 3 year period in a New Orleans restaurant. 3 years ago he was a 2 michelin star chef in Paris until he lost it all through addiction to drink and drugs. Now though he is on
Read moreReview : Aloha
Four years after the 2011 ‘We bought a Zoo’, writer/director Cameron Crowe is back with the 2015 ‘Aloha’ and we’re off to Hawaii for this film, where of course ‘aloha’ means both hello and goodbye. Brian Gilchrist (Bradley Cooper) is a space expert who moved into the private sector after a career in the military, only to have been seriously injured in
Read moreReview – Joy
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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