All the Money in the World is a film that feels like the real drama happened off-screen rather than on, but I’ll come to that in a bit. The premise is simple enough. J Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) was the world’s first billionaire, and with the film starting on July 10th 1973, his grandson, John […]
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No Comments »All the Money in the World is set Rome, 1973, and this is the first new trailer since it was announced how, and why, Christopher Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather, Jean Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), is the richest man in the […]
Christopher Plummer is taking Kevin Spacey’s role as Jean Paul Gerry in Ridley Scott‘s 2018 Oscar hopeful All The Money In The World. The film is due to be released in the US on December 22nd, with the UK date being January 5th 2018, and in an astonishing turn of events, Deadline have reported that […]
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Murder on the Orient Express – Listen very carefully; I shall review this only once! The flim centres around… yes, a murder, on the train known as the Orient Express. Bet that surprised you, eh? Someone has died, and someone is going to be fingered for the crime. And who better to do the fingering […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adam Garcia, Agatha Christie, Andy Apollo, Daisy Ridley, David Annen, Derek Jacobi, Elliot Levey, Gerard Horan, Harry Lister Smith, Johnny Depp, Joseph Long, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Judy Hofflund, Kathryn Wilder, Kenneth Branagh, Leslie Odom Jr, Lucy Boynton, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mark Gordon, Marwan Kenzari, Michael Green, Michael Schaefer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Miranda Raison, Murder on the Orient Express, Patrick Doyle, Penélope Cruz, Phil Dunster, Richard Clifford, Ridley Scott, Sergei Polunin, Simon Kinberg, Tom Bateman, Willem Dafoe, olivia colman No Comments »All the Money in the World is set Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather, Jean Paul Getty (Kevin Spacey), is the richest man in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he’s notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson’s abduction is not reason enough for him […]
Blade Runner 2049 is set 30 years after the 1982 original Blade Runner, which was based on the short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, and brought to the screen by director Ridley Scott. This time round, the screenplay comes from Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on a story […]
Alien Covenant could just really be called Covenant, since that’s the name of the spaceship in this movie, like the previous one’s Prometheus… which was just called Prometheus, and not Alien Prometheus… not that it particularly matters because in this eighth (by my count) xenomorph-based movie, it delivers a lot of the sort of thing […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Alexander England, Alien: Covenant, Amy Seimetz, Andrew Crawford, Benjamin Rigby, Billy Crudup, Callie Hernandez, Carmen Ejogo, Dan O'Bannon, Danny McBride, Dante Harper, David Giler, Demian Bichir, Goran D Kleut, Guy Pearce, Jack Paglen, James Franco, Jed Kurzel, John Logan, Jussie Smollett, Katherine Waterston, Lorelei King, Mark Huffam, Michael Fassbender, Michael Green, Michael Schaefer, Nathaniel Dean, Noomi Rapace, Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Tess Haubrich, Uli Latukefu, Walter Hill No Comments »Blade Runner 2049 is set 30 years after the 1982 original Blade Runner, which was based on the short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, and brought to the screen by director Ridley Scott. This time round, the screenplay comes from Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on a story […]
Alien Covenant Superticket – it sounds like a great idea! But is it? Get to your local Odeon for next Wednesday, April 26th, and it looks like they’re showing 261 minutes of Alien-related goodness. The 2012 Prometheus movie, followed by… around 15 minutes of Alien Covenant. On the night, that is. You will get to […]
Posted in Blog Tags: Alien, Alien Covenant Superticket, Alien: Covenant, Odeon, Prometheus, Ridley Scott No Comments »Alien Covenant seemed hit or miss as to whether Ridley Scott would be directing again, or just hanging about for the producer reins a la Blade Runner 2049, but he’s back in the hot seat for the long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Prometheus, which I loved in IMAX. And now there’s a brand new trailer, although […]
