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Review in Brief: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Who’d have guessed a legacy sequel to TOP GUN would be this damn good? MAVERICK sees, well, Maverick (Tom Cruise) reluctantly return to the Top Gun flight school to train the next generation of superior naval aviators, including the son … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Action, Joseph Kosinski, Miles Teller, Thriller, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, Val Kilmer
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Action, Comedy, Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Qwan, Michelle Yeoh, Sci-fi
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Cop Secret (2021) Review – BFI Flare
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Action, Comedy, Cop Secret, Hannes Þór Halldórsson
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Review in Brief: The King’s Man (2021)
THE KING’S MAN just doesn’t work on so many levels. It has a big tone problem to begin with, and far too many scenes of people standing around explaining what World War I was. Sworn pacifist the Duke of Oxford … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Harris Dickinson, Kingsman, Matthew Vaughn, Ralph Fiennes, The King’s Man
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Review in Brief: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Well this is about as good as a really meta belated follow-up to THE MATRIX was ever going to be, which given Lana Wachowski’s return to direct the project means, pretty damn good. Decades after the events of the Matrix … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Free Guy (2021)
FREE GUY is more evidence that the better video game movies aren’t direct IP adaptations but about gaming itself. You’ll get a lot more out of it if you’re a gamer, if you know the conventions, mechanics and player behaviour … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Comedy, Free Guy, Jodie Comer, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Taika Waititi
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Review in Brief: Fast & Furious 9 (2021)
If you like the FAST & FURIOUS movies, chances are you either prefer the earlier ones that were about street racing and family or you prefer the later ones that are about ignoring the laws of physics and family. If … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Blockbuster, Fast & Furious 9, John Cena, Justin Lin, Vin Diesel
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Review in Brief: Nobody (2021)
More melancholy than TAKEN and far funnier than JOHN WICK, NOBODY doesn’t exactly lay new ground for films of its ilk but is really rather satisfying on its own terms. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a suburban loser stuck in … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Ilya Naishuller, John Wick, Nobody, Taken, Thriller
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Review in Brief: Army of the Dead (2021)
Zack Snyder is clearly relieved to be done with superheroes for now and has returned to the genre that broke him through: the zombie movie. Unfortunately ARMY OF THE DEAD is an over-stuffed and largely ponderous affair. The promising premise … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Army of the Dead, Matthias Schweighöfer, Netflix, Tig Notaro, Zack Snyder, Zombie Movie
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Review in Brief: Mortal Kombat (2021)
Maybe rather than trying to stumble upon the secret formula for a successful game-to-film adaptation, it should be agreed that the answer remains “don’t”. MORTAL KOMBAT looks visually impressive for the most part, and fans of the games will doubtless … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief, Video Games
Tagged Action, Mortal Kombat, Simon McQuiod, Video Game
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