Revamping classic fairy tales has quietly turned into Hollywood’s favourite safety net. We’ve seen it with Snow White and the Huntsman, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Oz the Great and Powerful, all of which look expensive and feel hollow. The assumption seems to be that visual splendour will do the heavy lifting, and with…
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – Review
I’m gonna get this out of the way right now. If you like Sci-Fi, Doug Liman, and Tom Cruise the actor (for the record I don’t really like Tom Cruise the person. But, let’s face it, the dude is a movie star in every sense of the word), then you should see this movie. Stop…
Non-Stop (2014) – Review
Neeson plays another government agent in Non-Stop; this time he is an Air Marshal. Bill Marks is on the job, on a run of the mill six hour flight to London, or is it? What we know for certain about Marks, is that he’s an alcoholic, with unresolved family issues. The thing that Marks needs…