Assassination Nation really, REALLY wants to shock you. At the start, it even gives out a warning, listing out all the offensive and shocking things coming up, along with a very quick clip of them all. That’s how cool and edgy it thinks it is. It’s all parties and social media, girls are all bitchy, […]
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This review is probably a little unfair in that I actually managed to fall asleep for the last 20 minutes of the movie! It was a very hot cinema, comfortable seating and the end of a very long week for me, so not my fault. Who am I kidding, I’m obviously just an old, aged
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Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, sister of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) from the previous Oceans movies. She begins the movie in jail, being released on parole and promising to go straight. She has 45 dollars in her pocket and manages to get to New York, scam herself some free makeup and a hotel room,
As I headed into Skyscraper at my local cinema, I tweeted something about disengaging my brain for a couple of hours, fully open to the prospect of some completely ridiculous action, courtesy of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. That’s exactly what I ended up with, and I actually really enjoyed it all too. The movie opens
Before watching Sicario 2, I really wanted to try and watch the original movie again, but never got a chance. I remember it being brutal and intense, with outstanding performances from Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. I remember it gripping me from beginning to end. But, strangely, I couldn’t remember very much about it
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Every so often I head into a movie knowing very little about it. I don’t see the trailer, I don’t read any detailed reviews. What I do see are a lot of positive headlines in my movie related news feeds and I decide to just go for it. Last year I did the exact same
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This review is possibly a little unfair, as I actually managed to fall asleep watching Murder On The Orient Express. In a busy cinema, early evening on a Sunday. I’ve only ever managed to do this a couple of times previously – once, while watching a midnight screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (I’m
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Last night’s screening of Baby Driver opened with an introduction from its director, Edgar Wright. The intro was replayed again immediately after he’d finished, due to some kind of projection room cock-up I guess, but anyway… During the intro he described how Baby Driver had been the movie he’d always wanted to make over the
Spoiler Warning… When Mike spends most of the night tracking the guy that’s been tracking him and the camera pans up to reveal that his search has led him to Los Pollos Hermanos, I got goosebumps. When Jimmy heads inside the next morning to try and find out what’s going on, it’s edge of seat
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Joe (Michael Caine) is visiting his bank to discuss the latest piece of bad news they’ve mailed him regarding his mortgage payments. He doesn’t have time for the cheery desk clerk, or their ridiculous system for dealing with visitors. He certainly doesn’t have time for the smug idiot responsible for originally signing him up to
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We’re in 1970s Boston. A couple of local idiots, one of them bruised and sore from a recent brawl, have been hired by some visiting Irishmen as extra muscle for an arms deal and are on their way to where the exchange is due to take place. They arrive at the abandoned warehouse where it’s
I absolutely loved the first John Wick movie. Brimming with originality, breathing fresh new life into the action genre and giving Keanu Reeves the kind of seriously cool role he hasn’t really had since The Matrix (and Bill and Ted, obviously). One of my favourite movies in recent years. The first movie introduced us to
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I’m one of those people who just couldn’t see 24 continuing without Jack Bauer. When news broke of this new season, 24: Legacy, and confirmation came that Kiefer Sutherland wasn’t starring, I immediately wrote it off. And then when the trailer came it was even worse. I hated it. It just looked ridiculous and laughable.
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I’m not really a book reader. So when the first Jack Reacher movie came out in 2012, I wasn’t one of those people comparing Tom Cruise to the version of Jack Reacher depicted in the novels – complaining that he was too short, not the right build or look. Instead I was comparing it to
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Can season 2 live up to the high standard introduced in season 1?
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I went into The Nice Guys not knowing too much about it. Sure, I knew that Shane Black was behind it. I knew that Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe starred and that it was a buddy crime comedy. But I hadn’t even properly seen the trailer, and only seen a clip on a talk show
