Over the past few years, Marvel has had a rocky journey with their cinematic universe. Eternals, Thor: Love and Thunder, and, more recently, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania haven’t hit the high notes of past successes since Avengers: Endgame. In fact, many have written the company off. Now we have Guardians of the Galaxy Vol…
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Polite Society
Polite Society is a unique new film you may never have heard of. A British film from first-time feature director Nida Manzoor, a film brimming with more ideas than most mainstream movies, that breaks the mould of stereotypes and manages to skillfully jump from one genre to another in the blink of an eye. You…
Dungeons And Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
If the first blockbuster (usually released during the Easter season) is good, then the rest of the year will have some decent films to enjoy. Last year, we had Ambulance and Morbius, and, as we know, the movie last year wasn’t up to much of a high standard. Going into Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among…
John Wick: Chapter 4
A couple of words of warning if you plan to see the fourth instalment of the John Wick franchise. Firstly, catching up might be worthwhile if you haven’t seen the previous films. You me be confused about this ever-growing world that has developed since the original film. Secondly, make sure you go to the toilet…
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods
The biggest surprise of 2019 was Shazam! A delightfully charming superhero movie from DC, which managed to bring a mix of Tom Hanks’ Big with the usual formula found in most movies of this genre. A moderate success, it was inevitable that a sequel would happen. After several scheduling issues, Shazam! Fury of the Gods…
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
There currently seems to be a backlash against Marvel and its cinematic universe. Reading the reviews of their latest and 31st movie, you would be led to believe that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an absolute disaster. It’s not. It might not be up there with Avengers: Endgame, which seems to be the height…
Avatar: The Way Of Water
It was 13 years ago that James Cameron, still riding high on the success of the terrible Titanic, broke his own records with the surprisingly dull Avatar, a movie which can be explained quite simply as two hours of tree hugging and the final act where they blew up the trees! I wasn’t holding my…
Violent Night
If you are a fan of the movie Scrooged with Bill Murray, you will remember the start has an advert for an up-and-coming TV movie with Lee Majors called The Night The Reindeer Died. The premise was Santa Claus was under attack by terrorists, and only Lee Major could save them. Somebody had obviously thought…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther was a cinematic phenomenon when it hit the screens in 2018. It broke box office records, became the first and only superhero film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars and was a complete game changer for black cinema. A sequel was inevitable. However, no one would have predicted that the film’s star,…
Black Adam
The DC Cinematic world has been having a few problems of late. Shazam 2 and Aquaman 2 have had their releases pushed back; Batgirl was cancelled, and The Flash is still being decided on after the strange events of his star in public life. So maybe a new hero is needed to lift the Warner…
The Woman King
Hollywood is definitely changing. Watching The Woman King, a small-scale historical epic set in Africa and based around a tribe of female warriors, this film would not have been possible even twenty years ago. Yet Black Panther seems to have changed all that. This is a movie made up mainly of black actors, primarily women,…
Beast
Back when Jaws was first released, there was a torrent of copycats and imitations, whether in the water (Orca – Killer Whale, Pirahna) or animals on the loose (Grizzly). Now we have Beast, a film that would fall into that category if released in the 70s. It does for lions what Jaws did for sharks….
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