Film Review: Suicide Squad (2016)
byIn Hollywood blockbuster terms, we’re now living in an age of the cinema of moments. When you look at the biggest films out there,…
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Film Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
byThe next instalment of the quasi reboot featuring X-Men: First Class and then Days of Future Past is X-Men: Apocalypse. With the film featuring most of…
Film Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
byCaptain America: Civil War isn’t much of a Captain America movie, more an Avengers ensemble. The civil war part of the title too, is…
Film Review: Ant-Man (2015)
byYes, Ant-Man is a thing. It seemed like it could go one of two ways: 1) take itself seriously and be a colossal waste…
Film Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
byOne day Marvel is going to have to have a failure. Sooner or later they‘re going to make a film that breaks their streak,…
Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
byCritics barely had time to give any attention to Marvel’s latest offering before it was announced that its second instalment would hit cinemas in…
Film Review: Thor: The Dark World (2013)
byWe’re at a point in The Avengers franchise where we need a bolt of energy to keep from fading away from the characters and becoming disinterested in what happens to them next. As funny and brilliant as Iron Man 3 was (the first of the post The Avengers films) it lacked a certain panache.
Film Review: Red 2 (2013)
byIt would be easy to dismiss this as an $84 million waste of time. Going with the motto, ‘bigger is better’, Red 2 (penned by Jon and Erich Hoeber and based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Marvel characters) can never be accused of being dull or slow, but they might have gone a bit too big.
Film Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
byYoung Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is left in the custody of his Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) after his parents…
Film Review: The Avengers (2012)
bySince X-Men reignited the super hero genre in the year 2000 after the ill-received Batman and Robin, Marvel Comics (and their film production entity)…