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Review in Brief: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Well you can’t accuse anybody working on this of just doing the same thing twice. PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING might be even dumber than the first film, which was Guillermo del Toro valiantly attempting to get something with thematic substance out … Continue reading
Review: Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
I came to the FAST & FURIOUS franchise in time for FAST FIVE, when any pretence about the series being about cars and street racing anymore went up in a bloom of ignited fuel. Since then we’ve had 2 very … Continue reading
Review: X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
I’ve already forgotten most of APOCALYPSE, though I do for some reason remember Michael Fassbender floating in the air, looking bored and not saying anything for half an hour. I also recall the apparent finality of the ending, with the … Continue reading
A Few Thoughts More: Endgame
The following piece contains major spoilers for AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Alright, are we all caught up? OK then. Endgame is one of those particularly difficult movies to wax lyrical about (and I intend to) without talking about the specific things you … Continue reading
Review in Brief: The Wandering Earth (2019)
THE WANDERING EARTH either needed to be a lot smarter or a little bit dumber to really land. It’s fascinating to see China enter the international blockbuster arena in earnest with the killer premise of building monolithic engines on the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Blockbuster, Disaster Movie, Frant Gwo, Sci-fi, The Wandering Earth, World Cinema
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Review: Shazam! (2019)
SHAZAM! is a breath of fresh air. Not because it’s the first really good DC comics movie this decade (step forward WONDER WOMAN) or the first fun DC comics movie this decade (take a bow AQUAMAN) but because it’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aquaman, Asher Angel, Big, Blockbuster, David F Sandberg, DC, It, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rocky, Shazam!, Superhero Movie, Warner Bros, Wonder Woman, Zachary Levi
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Review: Captain Marvel (2019)
It only took Marvel 21 movies. Now she’s finally taken flight. CAPTAIN MARVEL like GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY before it, could be the first stage of a colourful cosmic journey for the superhero superfactory. An encounter with shapeshifting Skrull foes … Continue reading
Review: Bumblebee (2018)
Finally, a decent TRANSFORMERS movie. Was that really so hard? Something you should know about me is that I’m a Transformers guy, that next to STAR WARS it’s the franchise of my childhood (one day I’ll post my BEAST WARS … Continue reading
Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
JK Rowling is just making this nonsense up as she goes along isn’t she? If that makes me sound like I’m anti-Potter, nothing could be further from the truth. As a 90s kid I devoured Rowling’s books and I see … Continue reading
Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Is this going to be Ant-Man’s lot in life, to be the minty Tic Tac chaser for Marvel’s biggest, meatiest and most extravagant releases? The first ANT-MAN blew me away, a jolt of irreverent energy coming straight after the unwieldy … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Ryder Forston, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Blockbuster, Captain Marvel, Evangeline Lilly, Laurence Fishburne, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Superhero Movie, Walton Goggins
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