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Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Charles and Eric's X-cellent Adventure [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00KF8F6PG][/pullquote] Loosely based on the beloved comic book series of the same name, Days of Future Past introduces the elements of time travel into the already convoluted timeline of the X-Men. Cleverly uniting the cast of … [Read more...]
Review: Frank (2014)
Frankly Fantastic [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00JZO7DFC][/pullquote] Lenny Abrahamson's charming comedy drama was co-scripted by journalist Jon Ronson whose yarn was inspired by his touring days as a keyboard player with eccentric British art-rocker Frank Sidebottom. … [Read more...]
Review: A Dangerous Method (2012)
Based on The Talking Cure by Christopher Hamptons and A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr the David Cronenberg-directed A Dangerous Method explores the birth of psychoanalysis and the key people involved in its inception Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein. It is a Canadian-English production and was one of the films that helped star Michael Fassbender win the London … [Read more...]
Review: Jane Eyre (2011)
Jane Eyre is one of the most famous literary works of Charlotte Bronte and one that has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. 2011 saw the release of Cary Fukunaga's take in the canonical work, using the script penned by Moira Buffini sees the casting of Mia Wasikowska as the titular character and Michael Fassbender as her Rochester. It took a healthy $32m at the … [Read more...]
Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
It's the 40s “ World War II to be precise “ and Nazi Germany are spreading their fascist views as far across the globe as possible, including France. Cities are infiltrated and countryside havens are terrorised by the Anti-Semites. Hitler is also unaware that his about to get his ass handed to him on a plate in the slightly fictional Inglourious Basterds. Brad Pitt heads the … [Read more...]
Review: Shame (2012)
Steve McQueen is a visual artist, writer and film-maker from London whose second directorial feature, Shame, was released in 2012. His debut feature, Hunger, about the Irish hunger strike in 1981, helped launch his feature-film career and propel Michael Fassbender from aspiring actor to mainstream star-in-waiting. In this second collaboration, McQueen and … [Read more...]
Review: Haywire (2012)
Haywire can only be described as 007 meets Jason Bourne but for females. A surprisingly quiet promotional campaign for an A-List cast featuring Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Bill Paxton is very odd. What is even more unusual is the lead, Gina Carano, a Mixed Martial Arts expert and World Extreme Fighter. Relatively … [Read more...]
Review: X-Men: First Class (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006E09G1E][/pullquote] When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg released Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, they successfully popularized the term ˜prequel' being a film that predates it's original in chronological order. Since then prequels have become an … [Read more...]
Review: 300 (2006)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000VE2NQ4][/pullquote] Graphic novels have become a staple of the Hollywood diet in recent years. After the success of Tim Burton's Batman, studio executives began buying up the distribution rights of almost every successful comic book franchise and graphic novel. … [Read more...]