Tom Cruise returns as Jack Reacher (from the series of novels by Lee Child) in a rare sequel for the biggest movie star on the planet. In ‘Jack Reacher : Never Go Back’ Reacher is drawn into a conspiracy within his former battalion when he returns to meet Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders). Ultimately for the promise offered by Cruise’s
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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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Spotlight recounts the true story of how an investigative team from the Boston Globe newspaper uncovered the story of child abuse over a sustained period by Catholic Priests and covered up by the local church structure. The team would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Featuring an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachael McAdams, and
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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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It’s 1986. A passenger jet has been taken hostage by middle eastern terrorists. Who you gonna call? Well of course it’s Chuck Norris and his Delta Force. We’re back to the 80’s action films (see previous review of Remo Williams) and this time its to the patriotic drum banging, chest thumping ‘Delta Force’ directed by Menahem Golan. In this action
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“You’re going to be the Eleventh Commandment: ‘Thou shalt not get away with it.” There was a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There was another time, when a different type of lethal animal roamed this planet leaving nothing standing in its wake. These were the 80’s action heroes. Not like the CGI riddled super heroes that we have today, these
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The latest film franchise to find itself with a homage-remake-reboot is the Rocky series with the 2015 film ‘Creed’ which overall will hold its own in the pantheon of Rocky films although never challenging the champion first 2 films. However the film does afford Stallone the opportunity to bring a new depth to the character which may well see him
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‘Knock Knock’ is the latest film by writer / director Eli Roth (whose previous work includes ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘Hostel’). In the film happily married architect, Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is left at home by his wife and children.During the evening, 2 young girls arrive at his front door lost and asking for help to call a cab. From letting
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Max is back. After his last film outing in the 1985 misfire ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’, we see the return of Max Rockatansky. This time however, it is Tom Hardy taking on the title role rather than Mel Gibson who had played him in the three previous films, who had seen the series transition from low budget (approx A$350k) original
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In the last week, I saw 2 different movies that were, in their origins, very similar. Both Terminator Genisys and Jurassic World, are both new films from previous franchises that not only have come out in 2015 and been significant in terms of box office, (admittedly JW is far and away ahead of TG, but even that is well over
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