Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; Napoleon has been exiled and a new King is waiting to be crowned, meaning the old order will be restored, […]
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Colette is a film with a trailer that shows it’s getting a lot of plaudits, but… it looks dull as ditchwater. After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Oi! Stop sniggering at the back!), played by Dominic West, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to […]
Tomb Raider 2018 is out now on Blu-ray, DVD and all formats to view at home and for when you journey all over the world, like Lara Croft and she’s reborn in the guise of the 2013 reboot game, of which I was not a big fan, unlike the 1996 original and a number of […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adrian Collins, Alastair Siddons, Alexandre Willaume, Alicia Vikander, Andrian Mazive, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Dominic West, Emily Carey, Evan Daugherty, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham King, Hannah John-Kamen, Junkie XL, Keenan Arrison, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maisy De Freitas, Milton Schorr, Peter Waison, Roar Uthaug, Samuel Mak, Tamer Burjaq, Tom Holkenborg, Walton Goggins, tomb raider No Comments »Tomb Raider 2018 is coming to Blu-ray, DVD and download on July 16th, and it reboots the movie franchise with Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, and if you enjoyed this in the cinema, it will also set you up for this year’s videogame, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider on September 14th. Dom RobinsonReviewer […]
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Tomb Raider 2018 is Lara Croft reborn in the guise of the 2013 reboot game, of which I was not a big fan, unlike the 1996 original and a number of its sequels. I seemed to be in a small number when it came to that reboot, however. As for this film, and given that […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adrian Collins, Alastair Siddons, Alexandre Willaume, Alicia Vikander, Andrian Mazive, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Dominic West, Emily Carey, Evan Daugherty, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham King, Hannah John-Kamen, Junkie XL, Keenan Arrison, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maisy De Freitas, Milton Schorr, Peter Waison, Roar Uthaug, Samuel Mak, Tamer Burjaq, Tom Holkenborg, Walton Goggins, tomb raider 2 Comments »Tomb Raider 2018 reboots the movie franchise with Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander (above) as Lara Croft, and while the first trailer quickly tangled you up in a tomb called the The Mother of Death, a sea known as The Devil Sea, I begin to quickly get the idea of how plot-by-numbers it feels. A second […]
Tomb Raider 2018 reboots the movie franchise with Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, and in a trailer that quickly tangles you up in a tomb called the The Mother of Death, a sea known as The Devil Sea, and you can quickly get the idea of how plot-by-numbers it feels. Lord Richard Croft […]
Tomb Raider is coming to a cinema near you in March 2018 and taking the role this time is Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, right), with the first new poster released and can be seen below. Of course, we saw Angelina Jolie in the lead in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the 2003 sequel, subtitled […]
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Money Monster begins with the financial breaking news that Ibis Clear Capital’s shares plumetted due to “a glitch in their algorithm”, since all our money is just zeroes and ones in the electronic ether, rather than cold hard cash in the bank. George Clooney is Lee Gates, the host of the titular financial advice show, […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Aaron Yoo, Alan DiFiore, Caitriona Balfe, Carsey Walker Jr, Chris Bauer, Christopher Denham, Condola Rashad, Daniel Dubiecki, Dennis Boutsikaris, Dominic Lewis, Dominic West, Emily Meade, Genevieve Adams, George Clooney, Giancarlo Esposito, Grant Heslov, Grant Rosenmeyer, Greta Lee, Grizz Chapman, Ivan Martin, Jack O'Connell, Jamie Linden, Jim Kouf, Jim Warden, Jodie Foster, Joseph D Reitman, Julia Roberts, Lara Alameddine, Lenny Venito, Money Monster, Olivia Luccardi, Robert C Kirk No Comments »Finding Dory is, as you might expect, the follow-up to 2003’s Finding Nemo, where Ellen DeGeneres returns as…. erm… er… oh, Dory, the friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish. And if it’s possible to barf underwater, then the billing adds that everyone will learn a few things about the true meaning of family along the way. And […]
