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Like all self-professed film buffs, I'm full of prejudices. I hate romcoms, war movies and especially films aimed at the grey market. If I hadn't have been exhausted but trying to stay awake on a long haul flight, I'd never have watched this and yet I ended up really enjoying it. Perhaps I need to stop pre-judging so much. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is marketed as a feelgood movie about a…
The series purportedly set to redefine the Marvel Universe reaches its midway point. The Avengers are struggling, their tangling with the Red Hulk and then new powered addition John Colton going rogue resulting in public confidence in Earth's mightiest heroes at an all time low and governments turning against them. "We don't answer to anyone," Spider-Man muses to the Human Torch. "How do we make…
Long term readers will know I'm a sucker for a shark movie. The Devil's Mouth is a solid enough, mid-budget offering, ticking all the necessary boxes of such films without really offering much that is new or novel, a passable survival thriller but not that engaging a one. A group of five friends are holidaying in Thailand, couples Max and James (Lana Condor and Nico Hiraga), Adrienne and Greg…
Having spent my early years consuming the fun but simplistic Superman, Batman and Justice League of America, Marvel turned my head with tales that started to explore character as much as punching villains. I was 9 when Demon in a Bottle was first published and I have some of those issues somewhere still (that loft one day will reveal many secrets). Before Miller grabbed all the attention with his…
Before watching all of Hammer's sci-fi, fantasy and horror output became my new obsession, I'd been making my way through some classic 1970s disaster movies. The original Airport in 1970 had started the craze - though it's more a drama than a disaster movie - with its cast of famous faces in peril. However, by the time Airport 1975 arrived, the bubble was already close to bursting, no disaster…
The first arc of this series of Ninth Doctor adventures ends with the reveal of why the Doctor and Rose (Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper) have been constantly dragged back to the Powell Estate where Rose comes from. Unable to break free from this effect, the TARDIS snaps back to the Estate once more, a mysterious fog shrouding the housing development and the remaining occupants living in…
Though occasionally frustrating, Strange New Worlds remains easily the best of the 21st Century Treks under Alex Kurtzman. With a winning cast, an anything goes spirit and excellent production values, SNW hops from genre to genre, as comfortable with comedy as horror as space opera, even if the results are often divisive. Opener Valles Marineris could just as easily have been called Honey, We Blew…
With X-Men and Fantastic Four event storyline DNX coming up in the autumn, X-Men writer Jed MacKay has to tread water a little resulting in some fun if inconsequential escapades. #31 to #33 are titled Anomaly and feature the X-Men's science team investigating gravitational changes over the border. This gives MacKay the opportunity to spend some time with characters that often get pushed to the…
Gone Tomorrow was the first Reacher thriller I read from Lee Child and is the basis for this fourth run as man mountain Alan Ritchson squares up once again to make the guilty pay. The book has a great opening, recreated here as Reacher approaches who he believes to be a possible suicide bomber on the Philadelphia subway, only for the woman, Anna Merrick (Karen Kwong-Chip), to shoot herself in…
It Follows director David Robert Mitchell goes full Spielberg for this highly enjoyable dinosaur flick with a difference. Born in 1974, it's no surprise Mitchell has a fondness for the 1980s, the production design, costumes and props all expertly recreating the era while the plot of a family close to fracturing having to come together to survive has the wholesomeness of Spielberg too. In fact, I'd…
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