Paddington Bear (now fully going by Paddington Brown) is back. Now, well settled in life in London, the bear from deepest, darkest Peru, finds himself taking on a number of jobs in an attempt to raise money to buy Aunt Lucy a present for her 100th birthday. The item he has his eye on is an antique pop-up book of
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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
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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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There’s one man here, that will never kneel before you… The Man of Steel is back, in the 1980 film ‘Superman II’. Having filmed around 75% of the sequel to 1978’s Superman whilst filming the original, Richard Donner left the project, with Richard Lester (Hard Day’s Night, The Three Musketeers, Juggernaut) taking the role of director. Lester would go onto
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We return to Tim Burton’s Gotham for the 1992 sequel to Batman; Batman Returns. The film also saw the return of Michael Keaton in the lead role following the huge financial success of the first film. The original story for the film was partly written by Sam Hamm (as with the first film) with Daniel Waters replacing him and writing the
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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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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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For Day ‘V’ of the Alphabet challenge, its to Japanese Anime ‘Vexille’ from 2007. Vexille is a futuristic tale set in 2077, about the US based ‘Sword’ defence group that are conducting an investigation into Japan and the Daiwa Heavy Industry corporation. In recent years, Japan has increasingly withdrawn from engagement with the rest of the world, at the same
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Continuing the ‘post Governator’ era of his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this 2014 action thriller, directed and jointly written by David Ayer. Ayer was the writer of ‘Training Day’ but moved into directing in 2005 with ‘Harsh Times’ and 2012 ‘End of Watch’. Sabotage stars Arnie as leader of a highly ranked DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) team. The group
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Right. Firstly lets remember that I don’t choose the films for the Alphabet Challenge, the role of ‘film chooser’ is randomly allocated amongst a group of us. That’s how I find myself writing about Saw VI. Especially not having seen anything from Saw II to Saw V. I saw Saw (See Saw? Saw Saw etc etc) and to be honest,
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