Disney have a lot to answer for. It was Mary Poppins, I believe (I can’t think offhand of an earlier example), that launched the convention of the stuffy workaholic dad …
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Disney have a lot to answer for. It was Mary Poppins, I believe (I can’t think offhand of an earlier example), that launched the convention of the stuffy workaholic dad …
First came The Conjuring, then Annabelle and its sequel – and now comes The Nun, the link in all cases being Ed and Lorraine Warren, the husband-and-wife ghost hunters who …
The IMF stands for Impossible Missions Force (not International Monetary Fund, as I never tire of pointing out), and Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, comes …
Mark Wahlberg puts it best, in the indigestible Mile 22: “Welcome to the new wars”. A rancid blend of grisly heroics and ugly-Americanisms, this sub-Bourne actioner has a certain superficial …
Right at the end of The Meg – a film about a giant sea monster – survivors are on deck exchanging the usual end-of-movie platitudes and the camera pans away, …
“What do we do now?” asks one survivor of another at the end of The First Purge. “Now… we fight!” replies her friend, underlining even further – if it needed …
Looks like action-movie overload, with Skyscraper and Escape Plan 2: Hades leading this week’s new releases – though in fact there’s a difference. Skyscraper is a mega-budget, big-studio behemoth, hitting …
Flann O’Brien, alias Myles na Gopaleen, wrote a column called ‘The Plain People of Ireland’ back in the day, including a gag where one plain person of Ireland was singing …
I didn’t even know who The Wasp was; I thought it was the villain. Only as the minutes ticked by and no nefarious figure called Wasp emerged from the shadows, …
Say you’re Drew Pearce, a 40-something Hollywood insider. You’re known as a writer, having co-scripted Iron Man 3 – but you want to direct, so you whip up a suitable …
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