For the 23rd Bond celebrating 50 years of Spydom the Skyfall movie is a celebration. In this review we find the script is excellent, the acting admirable and the cinematography is sublime.
The new Colin Farrell Sci-Fi Total Recall movie has launched around the world to a very quiet and in my mind undeserving reception.
I still remember saving my paper run money to afford my own subscription to 2000AD. The coloured fish and chip paper comic from the UK
Highlight for The Bourne Legacy movie was a chase sequence through Manila which showed the chaos of Filipino traffic and produced the most edge of your seat moments.
Barry Sonnenfeld has now done for the Men in Black franchise what Brad Bird did for the Mission Impossible storyline. The quirky sci-fi humour that connected Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith at their black suited hips in the first edition has been rejuvenated and the Will Smith fan club can breathe a sigh of relief.
From start to finish whether up close in the fight or the expansive view of lands, sky and ocean, we can say that Immortals magnetically draws the eye.
What do Shakespeare and Chechnya have in common? Not a lot until Ralph Fiennes decided to take the Shakespearean play Coriolanus and interpret it through the modern eyes of urban warfare.
Our story joins the trading floor of a large Manhattan based institution on the day that two thirds of the floor will lose their positions in a cost-cutting exercise. While the young execs run for cover the floor’s head of risk management works on a problem he sees looming.
So how does a survival movie fare with a pack of hungry wolves hunting their human prey?
Assemble! Get your 3D glasses on and come save the world with the Avengers. It’s a film project I didn’t think would come off but the genius of Joss Whedon has directed a mega blockbuster for the Marvel franchise.