Tag Archives: James Gunn

Review: Superman (2025)

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Sam S-P

It’s good to have Superman acting like Superman again. On the big screen at least, it’s been a while. Following writer-director James Gunn’s hugely successful  shepherding of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY for Marvel and his memorable SUICIDE SQUAD do-over … Continue reading →

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Review

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Sam S-P

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/guardians-of-galaxy-vol-3-review/ SSP

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Review in Brief: The Suicide Squad (2021)

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Sam S-P

The best and the worst thing about THE SUICIDE SQUAD is that writer-director James Gunn was given complete creative freedom by Warner Bros. On the one hand you have fun character interplay and dues given to compelling, previously Z-List comic … Continue reading →

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Review: Captain Marvel (2019)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Sam S-P

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 →

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Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Sam S-P

Expectations can be a powerful thing. Nobody expected GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY to turn out quite as well as it did three years ago. And yet the batty space-opera starring Marvel Comics D-List characters and directed by the guy who … Continue reading →

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Series Retrospective: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Sam S-P

Ten films, six years, and two distinct phases later and Marvel are sitting pretty as kings of the proverbial movie castle. Try and cast yourself back to before Tony Stark strapped on his first scrappy suit of armour to escape … Continue reading →

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Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Sam S-P

It’s good! Marvel’s biggest risk to date (and we really mean that this time) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is not only a pleasantly shiny space adventure film with laughs, loveable anti-heroes  and fireworks aplenty, but it’s also the most outright … Continue reading →

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Guardians of Awesome!

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Sam S-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM Finally, last night saw the debut footage from maverick director James Gunn’s ambitious Marvel space opera GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. It looks great, really great. So, what do we have? First a classic set-up for any new character – back … Continue reading →

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