Churchill… Winston Churchill… like Solo… Han Solo… and Bond… James Bond… Okay, let’s be serious for a moment. Churchill probably sounded like a great idea on paper. Wartime movies are sprinkling their way through the cinema schedules of late, so inbetween Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Gary Oldman’s Oscar/BAFTA-contender The Darkest Hour, someone thought: Brian Cox […]
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No Comments »Churchill is summarised as “a ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.” Portrayed by Brian Cox, and set in June 1944 (obviously), Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. The late Prime Minister stands in […]
Forsaken heads with its two leads of son and father Kiefer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland sharing the screen in this brooding western about an embittered gunslinger who attempts to make amends with his estranged father whilst their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers. John Henry Clayton (Kiefer) returns to his hometown in hopes of repairing […]
Pixels is out on Wednesday August 12th, and I was quite looking forward to it even though I know it’s got Adam Sandler in it. This was because it has the daft premise that when messages of peace, including video feeds of classic arcade games, are misinterpreted by intergalactic aliens as a declaration of war […]
Posted in Videos Tags: Adam Sandler, Ashley Benson, Brian Cox, Jane Krakowski, Jared Sandler, Moviebob, Peter Dinklage, Pixels, Sean Bean No Comments »Pixels has the daft premise that when messages of peace, including video feeds of classic arcade games, are misinterpreted by intergalactic aliens as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. And now, a second trailer has been released… President Will Cooper (Kevin James) […]
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The Game is a new thiller TV series which I was initially in two minds about, after reading about it and seeing the trailer and a clip, as it looked very similar to the 2011 movie based on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, based on the original TV series – which I hadn’t seen, and yet […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Brian Cox, Chloe Pirrie, Daniel Pemberton, Gabrielle Scharnitzky, James Northcote, Jevgenij Sitochin, Jonathan Aris, Judy Parfitt, Marcel Iures, Niall MacCormick, Nick Holder, Paul Ritter, Radford Neville, Scott Handy, Shaun Dooley, The Game, Tim Bentinck, Toby Whithouse, Tom Hughes, Velibor Topic, Victoria Hamilton, Yevgeni Sitokhin, Zana Marjanovic No Comments »Pixels has the daft premise that when messages of peace, including video feeds of classic arcade games, are misinterpreted by intergalactic aliens as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper (Kevin James) has to call on his childhood best friend, […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Adam Sandler, Ashley Benson, Brian Cox, Jane Krakowski, Jared Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Pixels, Sean Bean No Comments »Anna is a thriller with Mark Strong as a man with the ability to enter peoples’ memories takes on the case of Anna (Taissa Farmiga), a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. Also starring Indira Varma, Brian Cox and Saskia Reeves, this film looks like […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Brian Cox, Mark Strong, Mindscape, Taissa Farmiga, anna, indira varma, saskia reeves No Comments »The Anomaly is a forthcoming action film about a former soldier who is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has 9 minutes and 47 seconds to figure out how he got there. Directed by Noel Clarke, he stars in it alongside Ian Somerhalder, Brian Cox, […]
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Before I saw this, I heard RED 2 described as a sequel which didn’t need to be made. Now I can see why. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is retired (again) and living the homely life with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), but the reason for ‘bringing the band back together’ is delivered by Marvin (John Malkovich), who […]
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