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As we are told multiple times during the latest (and ‘final’) entry in the big-screen Mission Impossible franchise juggernaut, ‘timing is everything…‘. That may be the case, but time and timing might be the real enemy here. In a film where the end is nigh-on three hours of running...
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In an age where trailers frequently reveal not only the basic premise of a film but many of its major beats and a raft of potential spoilers, there’s often a feeling that you have already seen the entire thing before you sit down in the auditorium or settle on...
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A battered and bruised Man of Steel finds a temporary solace from the heat of a battle, thankfully close enough to his Fortress of Solitude to get back there to recuperate – all with a little help from a four-legged friend. But these are just the start of Superman’s...
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There’s been a lot of anticipation about Noah Hawley’s series Alien: Earth but also some trepidation about the very idea of bringing the big-screen’s most infamously ravenous extraterrestrials to the living room on a weekly basis. After all, the franchise itself has become something of an acidic rinse and...
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No film, even including dinosaur-free movies, will likely have the impact that the first Jurassic Park film (based on the book by Michael Crichton) brought to audiences and critics alike back in 1993. Until then stop-motion and rough, cut-and-paste green screen was king but Steven Spielberg, like the film’s...
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This summer has a fair few ‘blockbusters’ to parse out its schedule, but the two movies that are theoretically going head-to-head are the big superhero outings: Superman and the Fantastic Four. People love to play off the DC vs. Marvel angle, particularly at a time when both studios are...
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Dramas – indeed every story – can largely be considered collections of decisions, the whys of their making and the consequences of them thereafter. Stephen King is a master of the genre, oft-described as a writer of horror, but more accurately a scribe of those razor-sharp and karmic after-effects....
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Two brothers, Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) return to the Mississippi Delta after years away. They’ve served in World War One and, later, in the Chicago Underworld of Capone. Now they’ve finagled money, escaping with enough cold hard cash and Irish beer to open up...
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Michael Connelly’s iconic detective, Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch has become something of an institution over the last thirty years, graduating from the page into two successful television series starring Titus Welliver. Connelly’s other creation, Mickey Haller (aka The Lincoln Lawyer) has also courted success with a movie starring Matthew McConaughey...
As we are told multiple times during the latest (and ‘final’) entry in the big-screen Mission Impossible franchise juggernaut, ‘timing is everything…‘. That may be the case, but time and timing might be the real enemy here. In a film where the end is nigh-on three hours of running...
In an age where trailers frequently reveal not only the basic premise of a film but many of its major beats and a raft of potential spoilers, there’s often a feeling that you have already seen the entire thing before you sit down in the auditorium or settle on...
A battered and bruised Man of Steel finds a temporary solace from the heat of a battle, thankfully close enough to his Fortress of Solitude to get back there to recuperate – all with a little help from a four-legged friend. But these are just the start of Superman’s...
There’s been a lot of anticipation about Noah Hawley’s series Alien: Earth but also some trepidation about the very idea of bringing the big-screen’s most infamously ravenous extraterrestrials to the living room on a weekly basis. After all, the franchise itself has become something of an acidic rinse and...
No film, even including dinosaur-free movies, will likely have the impact that the first Jurassic Park film (based on the book by Michael Crichton) brought to audiences and critics alike back in 1993. Until then stop-motion and rough, cut-and-paste green screen was king but Steven Spielberg, like the film’s...
This summer has a fair few ‘blockbusters’ to parse out its schedule, but the two movies that are theoretically going head-to-head are the big superhero outings: Superman and the Fantastic Four. People love to play off the DC vs. Marvel angle, particularly at a time when both studios are...
Dramas – indeed every story – can largely be considered collections of decisions, the whys of their making and the consequences of them thereafter. Stephen King is a master of the genre, oft-described as a writer of horror, but more accurately a scribe of those razor-sharp and karmic after-effects....
Two brothers, Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B Jordan) return to the Mississippi Delta after years away. They’ve served in World War One and, later, in the Chicago Underworld of Capone. Now they’ve finagled money, escaping with enough cold hard cash and Irish beer to open up...
Michael Connelly’s iconic detective, Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch has become something of an institution over the last thirty years, graduating from the page into two successful television series starring Titus Welliver. Connelly’s other creation, Mickey Haller (aka The Lincoln Lawyer) has also courted success with a movie starring Matthew McConaughey...
A trawler at sea accidentally catches and kills a life-form that is definitely not the typical fish they were expecting. Ever-vigilant, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) realises the implications...
The Allies have won World War II, but can they win the peace by holding the people behind the global atrocities to account? To do so involves creating an...
While there is little doubt that we’re living in a golden era of television – with something for everyone to love or complain about – and more to watch...
The Age of Disclosure, directed by Dan Farah, producer of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and the fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles, is one of those documentaries that will...