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If you’re anything like me, your first response to hearing they were making another Wolverine film would’ve been some sort of resigned, strangled concoction of vowels and despair. After X-Men: Apocalypse took home the lifetime achievement award for services to blandness and coming off the back of two solo Wolverine duds, expectations were not high […]
Continue ReadingFor long-time fans of the stage musical of Les Misérables, it has been hard to approach the film production other than on a rollercoaster of trepidation. From the mere idea of making it into a film, through the sometimes surprising casting news to the first set photos of what appeared to be a giant barricade […]
Continue ReadingIf the trailer is anything to go by, the latest screen adaptation of Les Miserables certainly isn’t aiming for laughs. We catch fleeting glimpses of poverty, death, tragedy, and revolution, all plunged into the same gloomy, gritty atmosphere of historical verisimilitude. And in the background, omnipresent and all pervasive, we hear the musical’s signature song, […]
Continue ReadingJonathan Looms reviews Real Steel and thinks that your time and money could be spent much more productively watching pretty much anything else.
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