The true story of boxer Prince Naseem Hamed (Amir El-Masry), trained from a young age by Brendan Ingle (Pierce Brosnan) who would rise to be World Champion by the age of twenty-one and retired at age twenty-eight. Giant is a sports biopic that shows flashes of brilliance but mostly stays entrenched in genre tropes. There … Continue reading Giant
The Thursday Murder Club is a group of four pensioners who live at Cooper’s Chase Retirement home that get together in their spare time to solve cold cases. But when the owner of Cooper’s Chase is struck down at his home they have a real life case to solve. The Thursday Murder Club is based … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club
George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) has one week to establish a traitor from a list of five British Intelligence Operatives. The added complexity being that his wife Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett), is one of the names on the list. Opening with a controlled tracking shot that follows our protagonist into and back out of a … Continue reading Black Bag
5,000 years ago the Middle Eastern country of Kahndaq witnessed the superhero Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson) free them from a tyrant king before disappearing. Now under the rule of mercenaries Kahndaq sees the return of Teth-Adam who sees no reason to keep the oppressors of his country alive. Black Adam is a bizarre film. It features … Continue reading Black Adam
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