Over the years Kurt Russell has played some very dangerous characters – the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, the suicidal Captain O’Neil from Stargate, and the psychotic Stuntman Mike from Tarantino’s Death Proof – so it’s almost hard to believe that for the first half of his career he was mostly known…
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Jumper (2008) From Book to Screen
Adapting a popular novel is never going to be easy, the difference in mediums is too great for there ever to be a perfect translation from book to screen, but in the case of the 2008 adaptation of Steven Gould’s young adult book Jumper they didn’t even try.
Colossal (2016)- Review
Giant monsters raging across an Asian city is certainly nothing new, Godzilla has been it doing for over sixty years now, but in Nacho Vigalondo’s genre-busting film Colossal things get a little weird as he manages not only to make an original kaiju film but one that is also a romantic comedy, albeit on that…
Atomic Blonde (2017) – Review
Its possible way may never get a female James Bond, and we’re still waiting for them to give Idris Elba a shot at Bond, but until they do we at least have this atomic-fueled spy thriller by director David Leitch to hold us over.
The Strongest Man in the World (1975) – Review
In this last installment of the Dexter Riley Trilogy we once again find Medfield College embroiled in financial problems and scientific shenanigans; it’s clear by this point that the formula is getting a bit tired and the studio wisely decided to end the madcap adventures of Dexter and friends here.