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It’s great to see the Lego team ‘Robin’ some of the Batman attention away from Batman V Superman this week – with a trailer I can hardly ‘Penguin’ to describe. But will Lego Batman: The Movie live up to its predecessor, or is it destined to be the ‘Bane’ of our...
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In the third instalment of the highly anticipated movie franchise, Renée Zellweger returns as the beloved Brit and 12 years later, nothing has changed. If anything it looks like we’ve gone backwards. The ending to Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was a sweet one for fans. We see...
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Zack Snyder is one of the most polarising directors working in Hollywood right now, and his ventures into the iconic characters are no exception. Man of Steel split the critics and the fans and Batman v Superman is likely to do the same. There is an awful lot to...
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2016 is an outstandingly chaotic year for sequels. Recently, the deplorable Alvin & the Chipmunks 4 was released, Batman V Superman is out now, Ghostbusters, The Purge and Jason Bourne are all getting sequels this year to name but a few in a very crowded market. We have put...
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“I concede that this building will be a crucible for change.” Uttered from the very mouth of the structure’s Architect himself, there is no other way around it because High-Rise generates change on a scale of which can only be attributed to author J.G. Ballard’s complex mind. His ultra-modern,...
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10 Cloverfield Lane isn’t really a Cloverfield film, but then it sorta is. It’s not a hefty great beastie wasting civilisation, its three people in cramped confines wondering if there is a hefty great beastie outside. As does the audience. It shares little formally or narratively with its found-footage...
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There are many films with Apocalypse in the title. It’s one of the many clichéd and lazy selected titles that studios will slap on an unnecessary sequel in order to give it some “edge” over its predecessor. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the world wasn’t going to end. In Avengers:...