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Released: October 21st 2021 Directed By: Dennis Villeneuve Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Sharon Duncan-Brewster Being a rampant defender of cinema lockdown was a particularly troublesome time for me. In a world where streaming only gets bigger and bigger it becomes hard to justify why spending £10 to GO to the movies to see a film is worth it. Enter Dune. Some names have become synonymous with the cinema experience, none more so than Dennis Villeneuve, and Dune is a spectacular example of this, showing the beauty of film it al its aspect. Dune is based of the book of the same name and one would hope it isn't spoiler free to mention that this is Dune part 1 of two ( or three ). Going in knowing very little about the story I was worried about whether it would get too caught up in itself and produce something that leaves me confused rather than entertained. Boy was I wrong. Dune is an absolute spectacle of a ...

  Released: October 15th 2021 Directed by: Andy Serkis Cast: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Harris, Michelle Williams, Stephen Graham Sigh. I thought Venom 1 was enough to make me depressed ( as I'm sure I'll talk about one day ), so why I even thought Venom 2 would be any different is a mystery. Perhaps an Andy Serkis directorial feature, perhaps a cooler and more recognizable villain, or perhaps even vague hope. Alas did it make much difference ? No. No it didn't. Let there be Carnage is marginally better than the first, and I mean marginally. It's a shame really, because I did put a lot of hope in Serkis to do a better job, but watching this film... Its and absolute mess. From the tone to the story and even the characters its hard to imagine how it could go so wrong.  The start of the film doesn't set it off on a great path. A very rushed origin sequence for the main villains before we are straight into the nonsense, with such a confused montage which funnily ...

  Released: 30th September 2021 BBFC rating: 12 Directed by: Cary Jojo Fukunaga Cast: Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes, Jeffery Wright After 18 months of long, hard deliberation, No time to die has finally hit the big screen. Question is, was it worth the wait ? Did all that time build up hype that couldn't be delivered ? Is this the send off we all wanted ? Answer: yes, yes it is. No time to die is an absolutely incredible end to the five film story we have gotten over the last 15 years, with plenty of action, heartbreak, callbacks and so in, even just in the opening sequence !  I think tonally you can tell this is a different Bond film, which plays really well with the character development I feel, and overall does show that something has happened throughout Spectre. I also really enjoyed the villain, I think Rami is an unnerving, psychotic and truly unpredictable antagonist for Bond, and I think over his inclusion in this plot...

Released: Dec 16th 2020 BBFC Rating: 12 Directed by: Patty Jenkins Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wigg, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright Taking a look back at the DCEU; there have been highs, there have been lows, and there have been your 2016's Suicide Squad's. Many would attribute ( as would I ) that the height of this series came with the 2017 hit, Wonder Woman. So surely the same character with the same director we would get another smash hit? Sadly not. WW84 seems so distant from the original in so many ways I could only come out disappointed. And look, I didn't walk into this film wanting a copy-paste of the original, but it would be nice for it to be conceivable that these were in the same universe. From the get-go it feels like these two films are completely different animals, with this one leaning way too heavily into the happy-go-lucky feeling, especially by the end of the film with some of the events that are thrown up. I think the story suffers the same problem,...

Released: April 21st 2021 ( Amazon prime ) Directed by: Stefano Solima BBFC Rating: 15 Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Guy Pierce, Jamie Bell, Jadie Turner-Smith Streaming movies are all the rage these days, with all the main services itching to get out their latest blockbuster to boost subscriptions, and what better way to do it then to capitalise on a well know franchise like a book series. Without Remorse is a direct adaptation of the book by Tom Clancy of the same name and builds upon the universe set out by Amazons Jack Ryan TV series, which I absolutely loved. Without Remorse however did not impress me so. On the whole perhaps it was because I was expecting something which was somewhat the same as the TV series, but there are issues none the less. From the get-go though there are praises to be made. I think that there is some very solid acting in the film, from both Jordan and Pierce and that for the most part the action sequences of the film are very good looking. I feel however both a...

Released: July 30th (U.K.) BBFC rating: 15 Directed by James Gunn Cast: Idris Elba, John Cena, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior It would be fair to say that my thoughts on the previous Suicide Squad were....... not positive but, frankly, quite fair. I have covered it a lot on this website, which for a film I really don’t like is quite surprising, but how does DC’s reattempt at its most lacklustre film compare? Well in one word: Insane. And that’s about as much you can say without spoiling it so I’m going to have to go into some territory in which you want to know nothing look away. The Suicide Squad is a completely different film – its almost shocking to think these characters could exist in the same universe. I love how this one behaves as a film; it is quite noticeably not a formulaic superhero film and from the get-go feels very out of place in the genre. It doesn’t hold your hand and overexplain, not getting caught up in re-explaining ...

  Released: 18th March 2021  BBFC Rating:15 Directed by: Zack Snyder Cast: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller, Jason Mamoa, Hanry Cavill In 2017 Warner bros released what should ahve been a massive hit; a film which brought togther the most iconic characters in the comic book world, a film to bring the DCEU together and to set up the next stage of DC films for years to come. What we got was a film with bad dialogue, poor story, no direction and terrible CGI which for most people, including myself, was a massive letdown. As a result fan outrage pushed Warner Bros to release the original cut of director Zack Snyder which brings us this 4 hour long passion project. Question being, is it any good? Well I think it is ! I think this story is so much better and more true to the previous films as well as the characters, who this time aren't pushed aside and taking massive u-turns but intead feel more human and less characature, espeically those of the Flash and Cyborg. Th...

  I'm going to start of by saying that I firmly belive the Star Trek remakes are heavily underrated, and they are all very good to brillaint films. And yes,while Star Trek Beyond isn't quite what the first to are, I think it still holds up, however today I don't want to talk about that one, I want to discuss my favorite of the 3 and a film which or a long time found itself amoung Dunkirk, John Wick and Hot Fuzz as one of my favorite movies. Starting of I would add quickly that this was infact the first Star Trek movie I had seen, and going in I knew very little the background to the franchise and even the last film. So why does it stand out so much to me? Well theres a numerb of reason that I will get into, but overall I genuinly fele this film gets so much right and manages to do for me what only a few movies do; that is get such a great balance between and adult film and a child-like experience. More on that later though as I want to break down exactly what does it for me...