Tom Hardy plays the Kray Brothers in new movie Legend: so what is wrong with the poster? Benjamin Lee in The Guardian explains: “I didn’t really care for Tom Hardy’s Krays biopic Legend. In my two star review, I called it “disappointingly shallow” and “cartoonish”. I then made the seemingly-safe assumption that Studio Canal, the…
Read moreThe Revenant
I thought it was post-apocalyptic til I read that it’s based on a true story from the 1800’s. Whatever, it looks ROCKING, and visually jaw-dropping. And I love the atmospheric use of breathing in the trailer.
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Locke
Tom Hardy channels Richard Burton’s mellifluous Welsh-ness as the title character in Locke. He’s supposed to be a chief-concrete-pourer (yes, that’s a thing) on a massive building site in Birmingham (although that sing-song accent though makes him sound like a pompous professor of Dylan Hardy poetry – why?) and the movie charts his otherwise-inexplicable desertion…
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The Dark Knight Rises
I enjoyed Batman Begins but I absolutely loved Batman Returns; I still think it’s one of the best action-thrillers ever. And having seen a conversation with Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas at the Produced By Conference this June (did you know they made their first film for $6000 only in 1997….) I was…
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OK, so you gather I’ve been somewhat excited about Christopher Nolan’s new movie Inception. But does it live up to its hype? Answer: Yes. And no. Yes, in that it’s a visually astounding piece of art – parts of Paris rolling up and over itself is a stand-out, and the gravity defying-bits you’ve seen in…
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