Posts Tagged ‘20th Century Fox’
Film Review – Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow (2018) seems to be as interested in Jennifer Lawrence’s body than the characters in it. Lawrence plays Dominika, an accomplished Russian ballerina who – after a freak accident deprives her of her dancing dreams – somehow ends up as a super secret agent…
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Film Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the final film in the trilogy, is finally here. Originally scheduled to premiere in February 2017, the delay is due to Dylan O’Brien’s on-set injury while performing a stunt. Given that Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials hit theatres over two…
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Film Review – The Post
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the name Steven Spielberg? Any number of answers would work: Indiana Jones, killer sharks, friendly aliens, giant dinosaurs. Spielberg has made a career of making entertaining pictures that have reached a vast range of audiences.…
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Film Review – Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) is the kind of film that seems to have stepped out of the past. Not just because it’s a period piece, but also in its execution. Director Kenneth Branagh does here what he did with his update of Cinderella (2015):…
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Film Review – The Mountain Between Us
Romance? Adventure? Survival? A dog? Hany Abu-Assad’s new film The Mountain Between Us (2017) contains all of those things and more! But is it any good? Well it’s got some decent performances and beautiful scenery. It’s also kind of preposterous and silly. But wait! Before…
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Film Review – Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The idea behind the Kingsman franchise, partly, was to lampoon the spy thrillers of yesteryear, most notably the Bond films. We see a lot of the same kind of tropes: the stylish suits, the fancy gadgets, the quirky bad guys, etc. This also includes the…
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Film Review – War for the Planet of the Apes
After gaining awareness, leading an uprising and starting an independent life, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his society of evolved apes have one more transgression to contend with before as the latter part of the title indicates, inheriting a planet. The third film in Twentieth Century…
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SIFF Interview – David Soren – Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Spencer Fornaciari interviews director David Soren from the animated adventure Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie at SIFF 2017.
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