James Marsh
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Coming off the back of two hugely successful Iron Man movies for Marvel Studios, director Jon Favreau chose a high concept comic book adaptation as his next project, focusing on… Read More
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Among the vast pantheon of splatter horror franchises that have been prevalent since the 1980s, the relatively recent Final Destination films have slowly become some of the most fun. Unlike… Read More
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Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn’t so much a prequel as a re-imagining of the origin story behind Franklin J. Schaffner’s beloved yet campy 1968 satire.… Read More
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With the release of Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios now have all their super-powered little ducks in a row, ready for next summer’s ultimate hero movie, The Avengers.… Read More
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The parallels between The Beaver and that of its star Mel Gibson are almost too uncanny to be true. The film arrives at a very difficult time for Gibson, with… Read More
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After fifteen years, seven novels, eight films and an almost unquantifiable amount of money, it all ends here for J.K. Rowling’s teenage wizard. To cite Harry Potter as this generation’s… Read More
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The Tree of Life is a film with some seriously big ideas. Only the fifth offering from one of American Cinema’s most highly regarded auteurs, Terrence Malick’s latest continues his… Read More
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After acknowledging he dropped the ball with the diabolical train wreck that was TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, director Michael Bay promised audiences something darker and more coherent for the… Read More
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It has been a quiet couple of years for Keanu Reeves, who has produced nothing of note since 2008’s lacklustre THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. In HENRY’S CRIME he… Read More
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Initial high hopes for Warners’ adaptation of DC Comics’ GREEN LANTERN wavered when the first trailer was released, although subsequent offerings have shown improvement, culminating in a 30-minute sneak peak… Read More
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In much the same way Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew from old TV adventure serials when making the Indiana Jones and Star Wars sagas, LOST creator JJ Abrams has… Read More
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There was plenty of initial skepticism to Fox’s announcement that director Matthew Vaughn (KICK-ASS) would be rebooting the struggling X-MEN series, taking the action back to the early days of… Read More
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The last thing I wanted to see was another PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film, after struggling through two-and-a-half hours of thankless set-up in DEAD MAN’S CHEST and actively hating the… Read More
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Paul Bettany reteams with LEGION director Scott Stewart for this post-apocalyptic vampire saga, which again proves a cool idea alone doesn’t make a good film. Based on a popular comic… Read More
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It’s hardly surprising FAST & FURIOUS 5 (a.k.a. FAST FIVE) topped the US charts when it opened last week. The way it fetishises high performance sports cars and illegal street… Read More
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When the newly formed Marvel studios announced their ambitious plan to build a new superhero franchise around THE AVENGERS, giving each character their own individual movie ahead of the first… Read More
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SOURCE CODE is but the latest example of an encouraging resurgence in intelligent science fiction cinema. Arriving in Hong Kong mere days after SARFT advised Chinese filmmakers to refrain from… Read More
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It’s clear from watching RED RIDING HOOD that Catherine Hardwicke doesn’t understand what made her previous film, TWILIGHT, so successful. She positions her beautiful young heroine (Amanda Seyfried) in a… Read More
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