With so many great films still to come this year, we look at our highlights from the first 6 months! So starting at number 10: 10: Game Night (Our Review) This fun dark comedy actually made us laugh and the cast which included many familiar faces from our favourite TV shows was a pleasant surprise 9: Ready Player One (Our Review) Spielberg magic brought Ernest … [Read more...]
Does Jennifer Lawrence Soar as a Red Sparrow?
This week we went to see the reteaming of The Hunger Games Franchise director Francis Lawrence and star Jennifer Lawrence, for the big screen adaptation of Jason Matthews book, Red Sparrow. The film tells how after a horrific accident whilst performing ballet, Russian dancer Dominika (Lawrence) is recruited by her uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts) to attend Sparrow School, albeit … [Read more...]
Were We Glad To Have Found The Founder?
We recently watched The Founder, a film that passed us by at the cinema but one that was definitely on our to watch list. The film from director John Lee Hancock (who also brought us Saving Mr Banks) and from the writer of The Wrestler, Robert Siegel had us expecting a great film on this incredible true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) met 2 proud, hard working … [Read more...]
We See How Tom Cruise Was ‘American Made’
This week we headed off to see American Made which re-teamed Director Doug Liman with Tom Cruise, a combination that worked so well with Edge of Tomorrow Now we are strong Cruise defenders, but we were left more than disappointed by his earlier film this year The Mummy but American Made we are pleased to see is a fine return to form. The film is made even more incredible … [Read more...]
Dunkirk – A War Film Like No Other!
This week, even though we are not a fan of War movies, we went to see Dunkirk, simply because its director Christopher Nolan had given us some cinematic masterpieces such as The Dark Knight and Inception. The film was like nothing we had seen before as it plays almost like a silent movie, in that there is not much in the way of script, we mainly just follow two soldiers … [Read more...]