This week we saw Arrival, the new film from the director of Sicario and the forthcoming sequel, Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve. We had high hopes for this film as Sicario was one of our favourite films of last year, and we enjoy the Science Fiction genre. The fact that film was being compared to classics like Contact; Gravity and 2001: A Space Odyssey. This isn’t a … [Read more...]
Captain America: Civil War! MARVELlous or not?
This week, we went off to see Captain America: Civil War, with high hopes, after all, we thought The Winter Soldier, the previous Captain America entry, was one of Marvel’s better films. Adding further evidence, critics and audiences alike were heaping praise on it, with rave reviews and massive box office records. If honest though we think we may have superhero fatigue! We … [Read more...]
Should you accept another Mission Impossible
So as fans of this action franchise, we were in the queue to see the Fifth adventure entitled Rogue Nation on its opening this week We did well to avoid the trailer campaign for this one other than we know Tom Cruise looks to top his Dubai tower sequence from the last film Ghost Protocol by this time hanging off a plane whilst in the air This is a franchise that never seems … [Read more...]