Tomorrowland: A World Beyond is a film which looked intriguing from the trailer and clips I’d seen, but was ultimately flawed in its execution, not least because you felt like you’d seen the best of …
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Tomorrowland: A World Beyond is a film which looked intriguing from the trailer and clips I’d seen, but was ultimately flawed in its execution, not least because you felt like you’d seen the best of …
Continue readingSan Andreas stars Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) as Rainier Wolfcastle, aka Ray. He’s a maverick helicopter rescue pilot, rescuing helicopters in danger all around the area where they have that San Andreas fault thing. …
Continue readingMad Max: Fury Road has a very complex plot… well, actually, it has no discernable plot. Then again, I can’t remember if the original three films did, either, where the part of ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky …
Continue readingSpooks: The Greater Good begins with a number of the MI5 team stuck in a typical London traffic jam, transporting evil terrorist Qasim (Elyes Gabel). Quite why they didn’t wait until rush hour was over …
Continue readingAvengers: Age Of Ultron begins with know-it-all philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) putting into place a peacekeeping program. Why? Because he has far too much time on his hands, and with his ‘Iron Legion’, …
Continue readingThe Gunman stars Sean Penn in the lead role as action man Jim Terrier. He’s one of a number of men, involved in an operation far away, where they all did very bad things that …
Continue readingEx Machina is predominantly a three-hander and stars Domhnall Gleeson (Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Frank, About Time) as Caleb, picked at random in a lottery at work to go and stay with the boss, …
Continue readingBirdman, or to give it its full title, “Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)“, stars Michael Keaton as has-been actor Riggan Thompson, whose glory days are behind him, hence the rather self-referential aspect to …
Continue readingWhiplash stars the relatively unknown (to me, at least) Miles Teller as Andrew, a student who loves drumming. Schaffer University music bod Terrence Fletcher (JK Simmons) also loves his drumming, as he spots the lad’s …
Continue readingFoxcatcher begins with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum, who usually restricts himself to goofball comedies), a socially-awkward character, telling a group of schoolchildren about how he takes part in wrestling because it enabled him to win …
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