Vice opens on Sept 11th, 2001, as Dick Cheney (Christian Bale, above) is rushed into the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, so he’s kept out of harm’s way, and then goes back to the start, in 1963, when he got into Yale and went on to meet his wife-to-be, Lynne (Amy Adams), and as the narration […]
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The OSCARS 2019 will take place on Sunday February 24th in the US, and will be broadcast on Sky in the middle of the night from 1am on the Monday, if you’re in the UK. The nominations are as follows, and once again, it’s all the same few films dominating most categories: Best picture: BlacKkKlansman […]
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Vice tells the story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history, and how his policies changed the world as we know it. The film comes from writer/director Adam McKay (The Big Short), and stars an unrecognisable Christian Bale in the lead role. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic […]
The Big Short doesn’t sound like the typical movie that would excite an audience – a drama based on bankers and the impending collapse of the housing market towards the end of the last decade. With talk of credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, it sounds about as exciting as the replacement Krusty The […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adam McKay, Adepero Oduye, Aiden Flowers, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Brandon Stacy, Carrie Lazar, Charles Randolph, Christian Bale, David Zalkind, Dede Gardner, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Kleiner, Jeremy Strong, John Magaro, Margot Robbie, Marisa Tomei, Michael Lewis, Mychael Bates, Nicholas Britell, Peter Epstein, Rafe Spall, Rudy Eisenzopf, Ryan Gosling, Selena Gomez, Shauna Rappold, Steve Carell, The Big Short No Comments »The OSCARS 2016 will take place on Sunday February 28th and will be broadcast on Sky in the middle of the night if you’re in the UK. The nominations are as follows: Best Picture: The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road (review) The Martian (review) The Revenant (review) Room Spotlight Best […]
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Ant-Man is another movie in the seemingly never-ending Marvel canon. I’ve said before that I don’t follow the comic books so I only know of what is presented before me in movie form, and I have to say that, from the moment I first heard about this entry in the series, I wasn’t exactly wowed. […]
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Hansel & 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 who, after an altercation, came off worst by way of ending up in a furnace. However, a lot of people […]
