Brick: how did I miss this film?
Take the plot, dialogue and style of a 30s crime-noir, with a hard-nosed detective, a femme fatale, drug lords and enigmatic informants, and transpose it all to a modern-day High School.
Les Misérables: something is missing in this hard life
All the way through this screen version of Les Miserables, I felt like something was missing. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it quite enough. I just felt that something was off, not quite right. It wasn't until the film was over as I was leaving the theatre that I realised what it was.
Act of Valor: bang for your buck
Much like the Special Air Service during the London Iranian Embassy action (and the movie that followed, Who Dares Wins), the US Navy SEALs were fully exposed to the glare of publicity when they raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden. Now comes a film of the unit's exploits, but with a twist: it stars actual, active duty, Navy SEALs.
The Avengers
When you have a motley collection of strong characters and a plot involving world invasion, who else do you get to direct but Joss Whedon?
X-Men First Class
After the debacle that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, you'd be forgiven for thinking that perhaps the X-Men franchise was best left to lie for a while. Never let it be said however that Hollywood is unwilling to beat a dead horse; out come the whips to give us X-Men: First Class. Except somewhere along the way, they actually made a classy, fun, interesting film.
X-Men: First Class
I must admit the idea of First Class did not appeal to me, but the trailer does spark my interest.
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The power of music
Just released has been the first full trailer for Battle: Los Angeles (called World Invasion: Los Angeles in some parts of the globe). With the volume turned off, it appears much like any other Hollywood action shoot-em-up war film, perhaps …
Trailer music
I’ve recently discovered that not only are there people out there who compose music specifically for trailers (or at least, make music that Hollywood wants to use often) but then also sell it online.
And it’s awesome!
There are …
For I have seen Star Trek and it is reborn
Now this is how you do an origin film. Fox take note.
It’s not awesome in a Batman Begins way, but it walks up, punches out, drags to the river, attaches weights and throws X Men Origins: Wolverine in.
Star …
Hair of the Dog
WARNING: In the interests of proper reporting, I am going to use a word as a pronoun that some may find offensive.
There was a story in the paper the other day about how Peter Jackson (of Lord of the …