2014’s Godzilla kicked off Legendary’s MonsterVerse series and is its best offering so far with its well negotiated balance of character drama and monster fighting inducing destruction chaos. Hollywood’s last run at the famous Japanese character of Godzilla was Roland Emmerich’s 1998 Godzilla film which never really got anywhere and quickly saw off any ideas of a cinematic series for
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The follow up to the 2014 Godzilla offers a CGI ridden Monster battle-fest, but lacks any real sense, logic or credible plot.
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Guillermo Del Toro’s latest film, released in 2017 is The Shape of Water, a fantasy, science fiction romantic drama, the likes of which only he can make. Set in the 1960’s in an American town near the coast, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is a mute cleaner working in a restricted US research base. Her life is a highly repeated pattern,
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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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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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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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