Despite not having the consistency of Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible series or the anarchic freedom of the Kingsman movies, James Bond remains king of the spies as far as box office and public adoration is concerned. It’s the film equivalent of Doctor Who: a series that survives through adaptation and regeneration. Yet whilst current talk […]
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Review: Molly’s Game
The extent to which you’ll enjoy Molly’s Game, the directorial debut of screenwriting icon Aaron Sorkin, may largely depend on your previous response to Sorkin’s movies. The West Wing creator’s rapidfire dialogue and single-minded characters trying to outsmart one another have made him one of the most distinct voices in Hollywood, and Molly’s Game is […]
Review: Star Trek Beyond
With Gene Rodenberry’s genius creation celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year (only 4 years younger than Doctor Who which holds the record for the longest running sci-fi series), it seems only right that Justin Lin’s first sci-fi adventure pays many subtle, and not so subtle, homages to several of the TV series and films that […]
Review: The Jungle Book
When I first heard that Disney were going to be releasing a live action remake of the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, I’m not sure my brain was fully capable of understanding the complexities of such an undertaking. ‘But how will they get the animals to look like they’re talking?’ I asked anybody who […]
Jungle Book trailer is ‘bare wild’
T he trailer of the live-action remake of The Jungle Book is out and it’s bare wild. I say that in a literal sense; there is a jungle and a barechested, feral boy. Not to mention the utter disparity this CGI epic appears to have with the 1967 cutesy cartoon original. If you only ever […]