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Released: 21st July 2017 BBFC rating: 12A Directed by: Christopher Nolan Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Tom Hardy , Sir Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy Dunkirk centres around the military evacuation of 400,000 troops from the French beaches, and looks at the different areas the scenarios take place. The three point of view each start off at different points, with the beaches events taking place over one week, the landing crafts events over one day, and the air support in one hour. This creates a spectacular narrative, with certain events overlapping, showing the action from different points of view. This film is simply spectacular, with great acting from newcomer Fionn Whitehead, and a brilliant screenplay from director Christopher Nolan. The film focuses on the action more than the dialogue in the most part, which creates an atmosphere of an action thriller or a horror movie rather than a historical drama, which creates a great sense of what the characters ...

Released: July 7th 2017 (U.K) BBFC rating: 12A Directed by: Jon Watts After Marvel announced that they would be helming a Spider-Man film inside the MCU, there where speculations of he best Spider-Man film to date. Marvel has taken that place at the top spot and Homecoming has successfully integrated Spidey into the timeline of the MCU. The film starts off really well, matching up to Peter Parker's ( Spider-Man's) prospective of the event of Civil war exactly to the footage of the third Captain America film, and moves into the main plot in the present from there. The film centres around a a newly formed Spider-Man who tries to stop a gang of criminals who are selling alien weapons to dangerous, in an attempt to prove himself to the Avengers. The great thing about this is that fans of the previous attempts to the property don't have to endure another origins story that has been well established in the other films, and can move straight into the main story, with the deta...

Released: June 1st 2017 ( United Kingdom ) BBFC rating 12 Directed by Patty Jenkins After the mixed response of Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman, the DCEU needed to come back with a film that would draw its audiences back to the home base and return to the former glory once presented by the studio. Wonder Woman has succeeded in its purpose, in both saving the DCEU as well as launching the female lead comic book movies into a brighter reputation. The film has a good directory, moving slowly from her origins on Themascara, into the battle torn Belgium and the front lines of World War 1. The most noticeable part of the movie is the differences audiences can see between the character in this movie and the one seen in BVS, with a more juvenile attitude, with less understanding of how the world works. There is still the element of darkness portrayed in the story, being serious in a script that would be hard to take seriously from the start, and the supporting cast is also great, with ...