We all love Mary Poppins. Or most of us anyway. “That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The medicine go down, the medicine go down….” Anyway… The 2013 comedy drama ‘Saving Mr Banks’ is the tale of how the 1964 film ‘Mary Poppins’ came to be and was directed by John Lee Hancock (also did ‘The Blind Side’)
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In the late 1960’s, women working in the seat covering area of the Dagenham based Ford Motor factory were downgraded in terms of the skill level assigned to their jobs and informed that they would receive 15% less money than male worked in the same skill level. The workers opted to go on strike which, for female workers in the
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The Gunman is a 2015 film by director Pierre Morel (Taken, From Paris with Love, District B13). Sean Penn plays private security contractor Jim Terrier, one of the many members of security forces working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a man with military training and a talented sharpshooter. The country itself is rich with minerals (gold, diamond, copper) 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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Modern day, London. The setting for the 2005 ‘Unleashed’ written by Luc Besson and directed by Louis Leterrier. Cockney gangster and loan shark Bart (Bob Hoskins) is out collecting debts, and with him has his trusted ‘dog’. Now when we say dog, what we mean is Danny (Jet Li) that has raised since he was a boy. Not only has he
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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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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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