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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Following Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan set about the 2nd part of what would become a 3 film arc of his Batman story, The Dark Knight. With only one main exception from a returning cast, with Katie Holmes being replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal for the role of Rachel Dawes, the team take on the story of Batman vs. The Joker. For
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As we continue our battle between the Batman and Superman movies within the ‘Batman v Superman – The FilmGeeky Cinematic Challenge’, we now move to 1983’s Superman III. The film continued with Richard Lester directing (having had him responsible for the large majority of the 2nd film in the series). Writing the screenplay was the returning couple of David and Leslie
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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
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Batman vs. Superman… The Dark Knight vs. The Caped Crusader… As most people know, in late March we will see the release of Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice. This will see the first live action screen meeting of the two superheroes and is expected to launch a DC comics equivalent of the Marvel Avengers franchise with a two
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As the Alphabet Challenge begins to approach the final few days, we’re taken to the Marvel Universe for ‘T’ – ‘Thor’. In this 2011 comic book action tale, we are transported from Eath into the land of Asgard and a tale based comics set in Norse Mythology. Where brothers Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston), have grown up
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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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Right. So here is what I do not mean. I really didnt think much of Avengers : Age of Ultron. But however disappointing that film was for me, it didn’t change how I view the first Avengers film. The sequel didn’t try and change the premise of the original film, not do something so dramatic as to invalidate the original
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Hitman : Agent 47 is the second film born from the computer game franchise, and is also the directorial debut of Aleksander Bach (previously having worked in music videos). Many years ago, Doctor Litvenko worked on a programme creating humans without fear or remorse that would become perfect killing machines. Once the programme began to be successful, Litvenko vanished and
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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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