Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) ‘’They’d all be dead by now, right?” asks one of the mercenary DNA-scavengers at the beginning of this fifth installment, as his team maneuver a small submarine into the lagoon that was home to the Jurassic theme park’s enormous Mosasaurus. What these guys are searching for are the bones of the hybrid Indominus rex from the previous outing. And while good old Indominus is...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 50th Anniversary Showing
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 50th Anniversary Showing A good number of years ago, during one of its periodic returns to the big screen – something which alone points up the enduring popularity of this film – an ad campaign ran with the slogan: BEFORE STAR WARS THERE WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY. Well, it was catchy, I’ll give it that; but it was a bit misleading. In fact, I’d call it bloody well...
Stanley Kubrick : Filmworker (2018)
Existing in Stanley’s World: Filmworker (2018) When I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange I just sat there stunned, thinking that it had to be just about the worst film from a major director that I had ever seen. When Leon Vitali came to the end credits he said to the person with him that this was the man he wanted to work for. Different strokes and all that. As a young film nerd in the ‘70s Kubrick should have...
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) I’ll never be able to listen to Kim Wilde’s ‘Kids in America’ in the same way, ever again. For most of writer-director Bryan Bertino’s 2008 debut The Strangers we were able to…just about…tell ourselves that these three masked figures who were invading a family home were — at the very worst — extremely sadistic pranksters. Talk about optimistic. Then that genuinely...
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) It’s neither fair nor helpful to compare Avengers: Infinity War to any other film, because there never has been one quite like it. That’s not to comment on whether you’ll find it worthwhile waiting for – although I don’t see how any fan of this material could fail to be totally satisfied –, it’s just a simple fact. This is a film that is the culmination (to date!) of a series of...
Truth or Dare (2018)
Truth or Dare (2018) “The young actors of today are so ghastly; uninteresting; boring, tedious. They know nothing about their culture; they know nothing about the great legends of the past…” So says the playwright-actor Steven Berkoff, obviously holding his words in check. But watch this clip to see what else was bugging him: Bejeezus, only for he said all of that three years ago I would have thought that he was...
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