cinesocialuk
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I love cinema.
I have given oodles of my time and, at points (probably too frequent in all honesty) have neglected my personal life to worship at its high altar.
But I really am getting hacked off at movies that sl*g off, without proper consideration of facts, my home country of England (or Great Britain if you include Wales and Scotland. The UK if you also add in Northern Ireland).
Mortal Engines, with its tawdry, tabloid and obviously anti-English-in the-wake-of-Brexit sentiment, is one such movie.
I have given oodles of my time and, at points (probably too frequent in all honesty) have neglected my personal life to worship at its high altar.
But I really am getting hacked off at movies that sl*g off, without proper consideration of facts, my home country of England (or Great Britain if you include Wales and Scotland. The UK if you also add in Northern Ireland).
Mortal Engines, with its tawdry, tabloid and obviously anti-English-in the-wake-of-Brexit sentiment, is one such movie.
Hindsight is always 20/20 - at least according to Billy Wilder, who knew a thing or two about directing great movies.
Perhaps the producers of Creed II (also producers of the original Rocky series, from which this new boxing film series has been sired) had that rapier-sharp insight when approaching how to make a sequel to the 2015 'son of Carl Weathers' blockbuster.
Where the original Rocky sequel was degraded with syrupy gabble about settling down, buying a house and making babies, the first Creed sequel has bypassed that mucus for a better scripted, sharper return to the ring.
Stunning performances all round, especially Stallone and Jordan but most impeccably (and surprisingly) from a near-sociopathically deranged Lundgen who returns as the Russian "breaker" Ivan Drago.
Perhaps the producers of Creed II (also producers of the original Rocky series, from which this new boxing film series has been sired) had that rapier-sharp insight when approaching how to make a sequel to the 2015 'son of Carl Weathers' blockbuster.
Where the original Rocky sequel was degraded with syrupy gabble about settling down, buying a house and making babies, the first Creed sequel has bypassed that mucus for a better scripted, sharper return to the ring.
Stunning performances all round, especially Stallone and Jordan but most impeccably (and surprisingly) from a near-sociopathically deranged Lundgen who returns as the Russian "breaker" Ivan Drago.
Disney's live action remake of Cinderella set the box office tills on fire in 2015, so it was inevitable they would mine deeper into their archive of former glories for another hit.
This mostly shot for shot remake of 1991's Best Picture Oscar nominated classic is less wooden and more lovingly handled, although with 45 mins of extra running time, the padding is sometimes painfully obvious.
Emma Watson proves to be a charming Belle, far more accomplished in this non-Harry Potter outing than her previous ones (and is not hampered by a death knell American accent, cf The Bling Ring) and is matched by a hugely enjoyable Luke Evans as her preening suitor Gaston.
This mostly shot for shot remake of 1991's Best Picture Oscar nominated classic is less wooden and more lovingly handled, although with 45 mins of extra running time, the padding is sometimes painfully obvious.
Emma Watson proves to be a charming Belle, far more accomplished in this non-Harry Potter outing than her previous ones (and is not hampered by a death knell American accent, cf The Bling Ring) and is matched by a hugely enjoyable Luke Evans as her preening suitor Gaston.