Imagine a time before Star Wars. Before light sabres, Skywalker and the Millennium Falcon. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” Imagine a time when these words were unfamiliar. When a bombastic overture inspired awe. When a…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Posted in 2015, film
Posted in 2015, film
Ant-Man
Ant-Man tells the story of one man’s struggle against an evil corporation – Edgar Wright against Marvel Studios. Most of you know Wright as the director of side-splitting British comedies, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. For his American…
Tagged with: ant-man, antman, avengers, evangeline lilly, marvel, mcu, michael douglas, paul rudd
Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Does the Avengers sequel live up to the original?
Tagged with: amazing spider-man, avengers, captain america, civil war, hulk, iron man, ultron
Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
Furious 7
“Why did I ever hang out with these people?” Early in Furious 7, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez attend a street race: it seems quaint by the series’ now overblown standards. “What’s the point in racing without explosions and deadly…
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Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
Legend
“Do you think I’m a good actor, Ari?” In HBO’s Entourage, struggling hunk Vincent Chase begs his agent for reaffirmation. “I didn’t sign you because I thought you could act,” replies Ari wryly, “I signed you because you were a…
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Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Godfather Part III. The Matrix Revolutions. The Dark Knight Rises. Film trilogies are littered with disappointing finales. The Mad Max trilogy was a prime example. The 1979 original was a low-budget muscle car flick: think a scaled-down Fast &…
Tagged with: action, babe, charlize theron, corzies, furiosa, furious road, george miller, mad max, outback, tom hardy
Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
“I had sex today. Holy shit.” Opening lines of The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Teen movies are usually like cinema popcorn: buttery and stale. Meanwhile, young adult novels rarely ring true. Their voice is too often that of a…
Tagged with: 70s, Alexander Skarsgard, Bel Powley, comics, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Kristen Wiig, Marielle Heller, nostalgia, san francisco, seventies
Posted in 2015
Posted in 2015
Inside Out
Moving. For an adult – it’s exciting, or tedious. For a child, moving home is traumatic – abandoning all that is familiar, safe and secure. In Pixar’s latest opus, 11-year-old Riley exchanges snowy Minnesota suburbia for a chilly San Francisco…
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