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  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...