Blood On The Sun(1945)
An excellent thriller from director Frank Lloyd set in 1930s Japan about a tenacious American reporter who is hell bent on exposing a government conspiracy that involves world domination.With great performances from James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney.
7.5/10
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol2
The newest MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) film and it's an excellent, laugh out loud funny action packed romp and is better than the first Guardians film.
all the returning cast are excellent and the new members of the cast are very good especially Kurt Russell as Ego The Living Planet and Pom Klementieff as Mantis. plenty of funny moments in particular between Mantis and Drax.
for me thought the breakout star and outstanding performance is Karen Gillan as Nebula who has a much bigger role to play in GOTG Vol2 than she did in the first guardians
the special effects & action are very very good and plenty of laugh out loud moments throuought the film. Stan lee has his usual cameo in the film and there are FIVE!!!!! scenes in the credits
9/10
The Boy (2016) 6.5/10 - creepy horror with a couple of decent jumps and nice plot twist toward the end.
Watership Down (1978)
The classic animated take on Richard Adams' novel is an emotionally charged rollercoaster about hope, mortality, survival, courage and legacy. Richard Briers, John Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Simon Cadell, Roy Kinnear and Zero Mostel, all sadly no longer with us, are among the cast lending their voices in a stellar adventure that shocks, but remains true to the source material. This is powerful drama - I dare anyone to keep a dry eye during this film, especially when Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" song hits home. Brilliant. 4/5
Batman Forever Uncut.
Quite it liked it but no where as good as the previous two. I thought Val Kilmer looked good in the Batman suit but was ok as Bruce Wayne. Tommy Lee Jones a fantastic actor but for me miscast as Two-Face and wasn't anything like the comic book version. Jim Carrey was good as The Riddler but in places was a little over the top. This is where the series started way to camp for its own all the steel book which I have looks great. There's is a deleted scene one of them they should have kept the other one involving a barbershop oh dear lol.
https://youtu.be/Od3116T92d4
7/10.
Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers(1956) Scifi classic in which a doctor played by Kevin McCarthy realises the inhabitants of his small town are being cloned and replaced by aliens. A fairly simple story, but director Don Siegel doesn't waste a minute in its paranoid 1 hr 20 min running time. Possibly a commentary on communism, the tension is racked up throughout, and also some fine noirish cinematography. Pretty well acted, with McCarthy riveting and believable.Also starring Dana Wynter,Larry Gates,Carolyn Jones, Donovan King & Virginia Christine. 9/10
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (extended cut) (1991)
Seen countless times but God, this never gets old. So daft but so much fun with Kevin Costner's Robin upstaged by the late Alan Rickman stealing the show as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Action, adventure, one-liners, excellent soundtrack, including Bryan Adams' Everything I Do, which still to this day holds the record for number of weeks as UK Number One (sixteen weeks). Strong cast also includes Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mike McShane, Nick Brimble, Geraldine McEwan, Michael Wincott, Harold Innocent, Brian Blessed and Sean Connery in a cameo. This is an extended version with scenes I'd not seen before. Gloriously exciting medieval romp. 5/5
Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2
Very enjoyable if slightly stretched sequel that is both extremely funny (Drax in particular) and also very sentimental and poignant too.
Way better than 99% of Hollywood sequels and certainty strong enough to warrant the vol 3 that James Gunn is wanting to do (fingers crossed).
Easy 8/10 with only a point or two off for the slightly lower paced (but necessary) middle act exposition.
(01-05-2017 21:31 )Heywood Jablome Wrote: [ -> ]Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2
Very enjoyable if slightly stretched sequel that is both extremely funny (Drax in particular) and also very sentimental and poignant too.
Way better than 99% of Hollywood sequels and certainty strong enough to warrant the vol 3 that James Gunn is wanting to do (fingers crossed).
Easy 8/10 with only a point or two off for the slightly lower paced (but necessary) middle act exposition.
Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 is confirmed by James Gunn
Quote:Well, this week we start the U.S. press junket, before traveling to Europe at the end of the week. Of course I know some of the questions that come up a lot – “Wasn’t there a lot more pressure dealing with the sequel of a beloved film?” (No, there was less, because this time I knew there was an audience waiting to see it!) and, “What was it like working with Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone?” (Daunting and at times overwhelming – I ran around in my backyard as a kid pretending to be Snake Plissken and John Rambo, so these guys are true icons to me.)
But the question that comes up perhaps the most is, “What’s the deal with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and are you going to direct?”
Before I was able to honestly answer this, I needed to know it was, in my heart, what I truly felt called to do. There is a history in Hollywood of haphazard endings to trilogies, and I didn’t want to become a part of that dishonorable tradition of pretending the third one doesn’t exist. I couldn’t do it for the money, and I couldn’t do it because it was what other people wanted me to do. I needed to do it because it was what I needed to do. I have never made choices in my career based on anything other than passion and love for the stories and characters, and I didn’t want to start now.
So, after many months of ruminations and discussions, I know the answer. I could save this answer for the first, random interviewer to ask me during the press junket but instead I thought I’d share it with the most important people in the Guardiansverse – you, the fans, who have been so incredibly supportive and enthusiastic over the past five years, it has moved me to tears on a regular basis.
So, yes, I’m returning to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
In the end, my love for Rocket, Groot, Gamora, Star-Lord, Yondu, Mantis, Drax, and Nebula – and some of the other forthcoming heroes – goes deeper than you guys can possibly imagine, and I feel they have more adventures to go on and things to learn about themselves and the wonderful and sometimes terrifying universe we all inhabit. And, like in both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, we will work on creating the story that goes beyond what you expect.
My partnership with the folks at Marvel Studios – Kevin Feige, Lou D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and Jonathan Schwartz – has been the best of my professional career, and is a huge contributing factor to my decision – as is my relationship to the guys at Disney Studios – Bob Iger, Alan Horn, and Alan Bergman – who have been cheerleading innovation and the pure love of movies from the start. This is the kind of thing you’d expect a director to say about the people who have just hired him, but people who know me know I would never put up working with people I don’t like for a single movie, much less two, and much, much less three. I love them all and appreciate immensely their collaboration. I wake up every day pinching myself that they’d allow this punk rock kid from Missouri to help create this wonderful universe, and to not only allow but encourage creative freedom while doing so.
I can’t fricking wait to get started.
Much of what’s happened in the MCU for the past ten or so years has been leading, in a big way, to the Avengers’ Infinity War. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will happen after all that. It will conclude the story of this iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and help catapult both old and new Marvel characters into the next ten years and beyond. I will be working side-by-side with Kevin Feige and the gang to help design where these stories go, and make sure the future of the Marvel Cosmic Universe is as special and authentic and magical as what we have created so far.
I promise you, the fans, I’ll do it all with integrity and love and respect for the characters.
Make mine Marvel.
We are Groot.
Excelsior!
Love,
James
Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban
Really liked this movie, it seemed a lot darker then previous films. Gary Oldman and David Thewlis were great in the movie, also loved the time travel element to the film.
9,2/10.