After the ensemble kerfuffle of his last outing, Cap’n Am must contend with a fracturing S.H.I.E.L.D., conflicting loyalties and the louring presence of a pallid, metal-armed assassin type harshing his 21st-century buzz. There to bolster his brawn are Black Widow (playing second banana – again), gadgetry of varying daftness and some fun cameos. Perhaps the…
Obnoxiously shiny and expensive cars hurtle through busy public streets, directed from overhead by a misappropriated traffic aircraft, while slimy trust fund kids and the lame old police try to spoil all the fun. A clunky plot, limp dialogue, charmless tech pandering and some bolted-on 3D set pieces fail to soup up proceedings, and the…
“I’d spill torrents of blood to give you rivers of diamonds.” “I’d settle for less.” It’s hard to believe that this monolith of a film was put together under the World War II circumstances that it faced, its completion amounting to an act of cultural defiance. How far you believe the tales of the production’s…
Cruelly-named Amadeus Warnebring is the tone-deaf black sheep of his intensely musical family. A policeman living in the shadow of his pompous composer brother, plagued by jokes such as “caught any violinists fiddling?”, he quietly wishes for a life of sweet silence. However, quiet does not figure in the plans of anarchic, experimental musicians Sanna…
My Joy follows the story of Georgy, a young Russian driver. Charged with a cargo delivery, his route takes him through a rural backwater where grinding poverty reigns, corruption is rife and violence never far from erupting. He is to learn more about the place than he could ever have wished. Cinematographer Oleg Mutu has…
As he revelled in the hysterical dystopia of the Fifth Element, so Besson relishes spinning a lush Edwardian Paris out of brass curios, opulent interiors, sumptuous dresses and perfectly curled moustaches. The film concerns the 1913 adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a feisty young journalist with a thoroughly modern sense of independence. Her unlikely quest: to revive…
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