Man of Steel is a film I went into, not expecting great things based on the reviews I’d read and heard. Sometimes, it’s good to lower your expectations because when a film turned out to …
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Man of Steel is a film I went into, not expecting great things based on the reviews I’d read and heard. Sometimes, it’s good to lower your expectations because when a film turned out to …
Continue readingSteven Soderbergh said he was planning to quit directing movies after Side Effects, but then along comes the mostly engaging Behind the Candelabra, although it’s a film which he’s been planning to make for some …
Continue readingStar Trek Into Darkness opens with a great action scene as Kirk (Chris Pine) and Bones (Karl Urban) are on the run from an indiginous tribe in a land that hasn’t even discovered electricity, while …
Continue readingA Late Quartet begins with the band appearing on stage and getting ready to perform. But Peter (Christopher Walken, below) feels his time with the band is coming to an end, after 25 years. This …
Continue readingCompliance is one of the most compelling and intense films I’ve seen in a long time and takes place at a fast food joint which, to me, feels like the equivalent of a shitty Little …
Continue readingG.I. Joe Retaliation – Hmm… at first this film seemed like it was bordering on the verge of Capricorn One territory when, early on, almost all of the ‘Joes’ are wiped out in an attack …
Continue readingHansel & Gretel – everyone knows the fairy tale about these siblings, where they came across a house made of candy in the forest, ate some of it, then went inside and encounted a witch …
Continue readingStolen opens with a great sequence with Will Montomery (Nicolas Cage) committing a $10m heist with Vincent (Josh Lucas), seemingly unknowingly while being watched by the FBI, while partners-in-crime Riley (Malin Akerman) and Hoyt (M.C. …
Continue readingThe Paperboy – Before I saw this, I wanted to like it more than I did. This was because it’s got two great lead actors who can pull off a blinding performance when they’ve got …
Continue readingOz: The Great and Powerful: (Spoilers ahead) I really didn’t fancy this at all. I mean, with a very few honourable exceptions (X-Men First Class, Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom) prequels are uniformly …
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