Outlaw King is a forthcoming Netflix film which stars Star Trek Beyond‘s Chris Pine as… Robert The Bruce… yes, I know. Stop laughing at the back. It tells the untold, true story of the man who transforms from defeated nobleman to outlaw hero during the oppressive occupation of medieval Scotland by Edward I of England. […]
Mary Shelley (Elle Fanning) wrote the hit horror novel Frankenstein, and this movie tells of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Ms Shelley writing the story. However, don’t expect any horror in this as it just looks like a bog-standard period, romantic drama. Mary […]
Darkest Hour gives Gary Oldman a turn as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after Brian Cox’s Churchill last year, but with Oldman as the man at the time of the Dunkirk evacuations, so incredibly portrayed last summer in Christopher Nolan’s IMAX epic, Dunkirk. Nolan’s film was quite a visual feast, but Cox’s turn has rather been […]
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No Comments »Darkest Hour follows Churchill and Dunkirk, making me wonder if, like with Marvel and DC, someone’s trying to start their own Winston Churchill movie franchise… Imagine it: First, there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then the DC Extended Universe, then the Universal Dark Monsters Univ… almost. Now, after Churchill and Dunkirk, comes the third in […]
Darkest Hour follows Churchill and Dunkirk, making me wonder if, like with Marvel and DC, someone’s trying to start their own Winston Churchill movie franchise… Imagine it: First, there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then the DC Extended Universe, then the Universal Dark Monsters Univ… almost. Now, after Churchill and Dunkirk, comes the third in […]
Zero Dark Thirty begins in 2003 with the torture, ahem, discussion, with captured terrorist, Ammar (Reda Kateb), a man who was caught because his name is linked to a $5,000 Western Union transfer to a 9/11 hijacker, not to mention the 150kg of explosives they found in his house. Dan (Jason Clarke) and relative newcomer […]
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