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Creatures of the Night
Jack Steadman goes on a nightly stroll with Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jack Steadman goes on a nightly stroll with Jake Gyllenhaal
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The X-Men series has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years. The first two entries helped revive the comic book film industry (with X-2 being considered arguably the best of the genre pre-The Dark Knight), but the third film and the first spin-off received mixed reactions.
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Godzilla has it all on paper. Provided you take ‘it all’ to mean ‘an extremely promising concoction of interesting choices that might just work’.
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Think back to spring 2008. The comic book industry’s ventures into film were showing strong signs of recovery after the apparent death knell that was 1997’s Batman & Robin.
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The director of End of Watch (an interesting take on police films that didn’t quite succeed) combining with one of two classic 80s action heroes suffering a string of mediocre...
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It’s comedy season again, and things are kicking off in the most family-unfriendly way possible (in both a literal ‘this is a crude comedy’ and ‘this is a comedy where unfriendly acts are committed against a family’ sense)
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Locke is an intriguing premise. Set entirely in the cabin of a BMW (bar a few brief seconds of Locke climbing into his car at the very beginning), and with only one character (the eponymous Ivan Locke) ever visible in the form of a bearded, be-cardiganed Tom Hardy.
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The opening lines of Frank are a mixture of odd noises and half-formed (and utterly atrocious) lyrics, providing an amusing and wry look at the plight of the artist in search of inspiration...
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The quest to find the next Hunger Games finds it next entrant in Veronica Roth’s series of YA novels, and this time (after a few misfires that will go un-named, and an excellent second Hunger Games film) it looks like the studios might just have found what they’re looking for.
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Phase 2 continues apace. The third Iron Man started things off in a typically Shane Black fashion of quips and action, the second Thor trod a darker path while beginning to introduce the elements that will come together in an inevitably glorious fashion...
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Following on from their previous effort The Guard, director John Michael McDonagh (brother of Marty) have teamed up again for Calvary, the tale of a well-meaning, innocent priest told in the confessional that he has only a week left to live.
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Subtitled Berandal in the US (much like the original was subtitled Redemption), The Raid 2 picks up (chronologically-speaking) exactly where the original left off, with rookie cop Rama having survived the brutal tower block that claimed the lives of (almost) all of his squad.