Polar is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, to which I was not aware of prior to hearing about this film, but the premise is that when assassins retire at the imposed age of 50, they retire permanently… because they’re forced to do so with a bullet or three in their insides. As we’re […]
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No Comments » Polar sees Mads Mikkelsen is no slouch with his winter-based movies, given the also upcoming release of Arctic next month, but for now we have this new film from Netflix. He plays Duncan Vizla, a master assassin who comes out of retirement to contend with a group of young hit men, simply because when you […]
Arctic stars Mads Mikkelsen as Overgård, a man stranded there after an airplane crash, who must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out alive. One other factor is that also in the plane crash […]
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At Eternity’s Gate chronicles Vincent van Gogh’s time in Arles, with the painter portrayed by Willem Dafoe. With a trailer featuring Mads Mikkelsen as a priest, and Oscar Isaac as artist Paul Gaugin, this looks like there could be something in it of interest, but not necessarily. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since […]
Death Stranding is coming… but still, we don’t know when. It looks interesting, but WTF was up with the a baby in a portable womb?! From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all new, genre defining experience for the PS4. Besieged by death’s tide at every turn, Sam Bridges (Norman Reedus) must brave a […]
The Hunt centres around Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a middle-aged man who’s divorced and hardly sees his son and who could really use a break in life, but at least he has some good friends and colleagues… at first. An innocent moment he’d rather forget happens while he’s working at the nursery, which leads to one […]
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of two spin-offs to the Star Wars canon, this one placed inbetween the lacklustre Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and next Christmas’ Episode VIII. Episode IX will come at Christmas 2019, with a young Han Solo movie being released at the yuletide season inbetween… […]
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Doctor Strange is a brilliant, but arrogant, neurosurgeon. He also must earn a fortune since he has a drawer full of rotating watches – yes, individually rotating, for no apparent reason, and presumably still continue to rotate once the drawer is closed! That’s crazy-extravagant! I generally know little about most Marvel characters – and DC, […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adam Pelta-Pauls, Alaa Safi, Amy Landecker, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Benjamin Bratt, C Robert Cargill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Dow, Doctor Strange, Eben Young, Elizabeth Healey, Ezra Khan, Guillaume Faure, Jon Spaihts, Katrina Durden, Kevin Feige, Kimberly Van Luin, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Linda Louise Duan, Mads Mikkelsen, Mark Anthony Brighton, Meera Syal, Michael Giacchino, Michael Stuhlbarg, Pat Kiernan, Rachel McAdams, Sarah Malin, Scott Adkins, Scott Derrickson, Steve Ditko, Tilda Swinton, Topo Wresniwiro, Umit Ulgen, Zara Phythian 3 Comments »Rogue One: A Star Wars Story proves the cash-cow force is strong in this one, as the second movie in a five-strong onslaught gets featurettes, a trailer… And now, the second official trailer has been released! In this movie, rebels set out on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, led by […]
Doctor Strange. Doctor Who. Doctor Foster. “Doctor, Doctor” by the Thompson Twins… the world is never short of doctors to put in the entertainment outlets… Benedict Cumberbatch is Stephen Strange, the world’s top neurosurgeon, unfortunately injured in a car accident that ruins his career, but helpfully letting him discover the hidden world of magic and […]
