Review – Star Wars : The Phantom Menace
George Lucas’ first of the prequel trilogy still has a lot to offer, however could have been so much more
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Review – Unbreakable
M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable from 2000, is a powerful example of both an auteur at the top of his game, and a contemporary approach to a genre that is now running amuck in cinema
Read moreTrailer – The Banker
With an upcoming, but limited release – and then launch on the new Apple TV+ service, The Banker is the new film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie (or Nick Fury and Falcon in the world of super hero cinema). The film also stars Nicholas Hoult (or Beast in the world of X-Men) and sees the 3 attempting to
Read moreReview – Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an enjoyable enough entrance, but the number of moving parts and identity themes make it tricky to completely engage with
Read moreReview – Avengers : Endgame
Avengers : Endgame represents one of the biggest moments in modern day cinema, with the film bringing the first 3 phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a rip roaring, victory lap of a crescendo. “We’re in the end game now” Doctor Strange, Avengers : Infinity War The film finds the remaining members of the avengers years after the climax
Read moreReview – Jackie Brown
Quentin Tarantino’s third film Jackie Brown is the film we go to for ‘J’ in this year’s Alphabet challenge. The film, based on Elmore Leonard’s book Rum Punch came out in 1997 and was the first film that the director made that was not an original creation of his own work. The film centres on Jackie Brown (played by Pam Greer),
Read moreReview – Basic
To Panama we head for the 2nd film of this year’s Alphabet Challenge and to the 2003 film Basic. Directed by John McTiernan, the film is a military mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and was written by James Vanderbilt. Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy (yep really!) who is called upon one evening by a former
Read moreReview – Avengers : Age of Ultron
The Avengers are back! We find the superhero team storming their way through Hydra bases seeking to reclaim the
Read moreReview – Captain America : The Winter Soldier
Cap is back and ready for action in the 2014 Captain America : The Winter Soldier. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley (previously having written the original Captain America film and also the 2nd Thor film). Here we find Captain Steve Rogers trying to get to grips with life 70 some years
Read moreReview – Avengers Assemble
Well here it is – The end of the MCU Phase 1 and the location to which so many of these roads have been heading – Avengers Assemble. The 5 prior films in so far in the MCU all have some bearing on the evolution of this film, from the most obvious set up in Iron Man 2, through to
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