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Christopher Nolan knows what he's doing... A fter three successful films that explored the dynamics of a superhero whose past portrayals on the big screen had been comically and seriously portrayed through TV performances and on the big screen by Val Kilmer, Michael Keaton and absurdly by George Clooney; no one could expect a decent crime detective drama that an Academy of Motion Pictures would take seriously, but Nolan decided to make just that. And it just so happens to be one of the best trilogies in the modern era of cinema. An instantly quotable, deep and symbolic crime detective thriller, that just so happens to feature as it's guest performance, the Detective: The Batman and the scene stealer: The Joker. C hristopher Nolan's idea for this genuine and real version of storytelling did exactly this. It was to start from the very first beginnings of the comic book hero, an origin story with a slight twist, everything would be as if it was based in the reality...

W ind River was released in 2017, I missed it on the big screen, but it was on my radar, because it was from the writer & now director Taylor Sheridan, and he had created an intense emotional drama, set in a frozen wilderness in Wyoming on a Native American Reservation called Wind River. A young woman is found dead in the snow by Jeremy Renner's Cory Lambert who is a veteran tracker for the Fish & Wildlife Service. So he knows the land better than anyone. (Renner's best performance so far). And when the investigation deepens enough to bring in the FBI, Elizabeth Olsen's rookie Jane Banner (no relation to Bruce Banner aka Incredible Hulk) #Avengersreference is brought in to investigate. The film's location is a presence in the film that becomes it's own character. The snowy mountains of Wyoming is uncompromising, especially to Jane who is the nearest FBI agent flown in from Las Vegas, so she has to borrow clothes from Cory's daughter who pass...

I am FINALLY watching Lady Bird  this afternoon after over 4 months of waiting for the UK release. I hate it when you get a film later than the rest of the world. Because you hear the great things about the film, but you can't watch it yet. So my anticipation for this film is at an all time high. I know the performances are going to be great because Saoirse Ronan has not made a dull film yet. I trust Greta Gerwig to produce a perfect film, she is a great performer as an actress, she writes really fully formed characters. This film is more of a personal film for her, because it's an almost auto-biographical film, it's set in Sacramento California, where Gerwig grew up as a teenager, it takes place in a Catholic school which Gerwig actually didn't attend in high school, but she wanted to add the feeling of being in an environment that is very much the place you want to rebel against as a teenager going through the angst all teens go through. I hav...

J ohann Johannson's score for Sicario  has to be one of the best soundtracks of the past couple of years that works best at creating intensity in an already tense scene.  For example,  Emily Blunt's character Kate Macer is taken on a road trip of sorts in Juarez Mexico, in a black ops shootout scene to rival all shootouts in film history, whilst taking place in a stationary set of traffic waiting to re-enter America on the border of Mexico.  The music has an underlying beat and rhythm to the scene which moves slowly but tensely to a finish that creates a bloody massacre in a traffic jam that you weren't expecting to be as out in the open. It's one sided, the Americans are in full force with army like black ops kill shots, whilst the Mexican civilians around them don't even flinch, or freak out, as it is treated like a daily occurrence in Juarez. It's a simple scene that sets up the rest of the films moral greyness, which Kate becomes more and more accusto...

The epic new revelatory genius comic book adaptation of DC's Suicide Squad  has been unveiled, after the version shown to the exclusive Hall H audience at San Diego's Comic-Con was leaked online. Warner Brothers have nailed almost every single comic book adaptation so far. I am rather psyched for the super villains of the DC universe to be shown on the big screen for everyone to see. Simply because this would never happen at Marvel's cinematic universe. I am obsessed with watching the trailer on repeat, to work out what is happening, and also Googling every single character on the cast list to work out which villain they're playing and which character they are the antagonist of. The main character is Batman who will be portrayed by the completely fresh and new to comic book world (other than Daredevil) Ben Affleck. The trailer score is simply sublimely meshed together with the slow build up of the trailer, which for a first look is pretty special for comic book...

The brand spanking new second official teaser trailer for Star Wars The Force Awakens  has debuted on the internet, roughly 14 hours ago and there are many emotions that I was going through at the time and are still having now, even though I have watched it about 20 times since. John Boyega's as Finn as a Stormtrooper? "The force is strong in my family, my father has it, I have it, my sister has it, you have that power too." What we're hearing is a voice over from Luke Skywalker, it has been a long time since we have heard his voice withing the Star Wars universe, and nerdgasm's were had all over the galaxy in unison. But there is so much to be excited for, as this is simply the beginning of a one minute and 59 second teaser full of new and exciting Star Wars nuggets to be devoured. Daisy Ridley's Rey on Jakku with the new R2-D2 of the new era First off we are cruising along the new planet of Jakku, where it's most likely Daisy Ridl...

I am a sucker for a book that ends up being translated to the big screen. I will always watch the trailer for the film and then get so interested in the book, that I read after something like this interests me, that I wish I wasn't going to see it being portrayed on the big screen; because that is where it will most likely have cuts and edits to the story and structure and the portrayal of the characters that will completely alter what I thought about everything from my own wild imagination. But ultimately, and hopefully all filmmakers who know that a good book can translate to the big screen with the right amount of understanding for the original text, will create something that the author intended and that fans of the book can delve into with the right amount of respect for the books intensity and feeling. W ild by Cheryl Strayed, happens to be just this exact description of a memoir, the second of the books that has been translated to the big screen that is basically an...

The teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams eagerly awaited Star Wars Episode VII has finally arrived. We see John Boyega in the desert dressed as a Storm Trooper. An R2-D2. A load of Storm Troopers in an aircraft. One of the heroine's of the film flying on an aircraft. Some X-Wing fighters, with Oscar Isaac in particular being shown in battle it seems. And a dark Jedi menacingly lighting their sword shaped lightsaber in a snow covered forest. Then the Millenium Falcon emerging with the rapturous score of John Williams' original Star Wars theme, being attacked by some X-Wings. Then the Star Wars logo in front of a star covered galaxy. All layered by the very deeply voiced, very Benedict Cumberbatch sounding voice over, which may possibly be Max Von Sydow's deep and mysterious voice as he is on the cast list. But make of it what you will. My mind is blown. Just imagine what J.J. will come up with for the official trailer, so as not to give the whole thing away, but to capture...

When I first saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer  I was probably around the age of seven or eight years old and it was the mid 90's when girl power was most definitely in.  To aspire to be a vampire slayer was something I was obsessed with, I had a wild imagination and in my mind thought that vampire's did indeed exist. I would practice my high kicks like Buffy would do with Giles in the library at the high school. I was that obsessed with Buffy . I even used a stake of some kind that I had created out of a small stick, I was that hardcore a fan.  I had very nice dreams involving being bitten by Angel or Spike, at first it was definitely Angel who was my vampire crush, but in my latter years definitely Spike, the bad boy vampire. I was going through my pretty guy phase and not even a teenager yet. Buffy the Vampire Slayer  holds a special place in my heart as one of the best TV shows to ever be made, and I count myself lucky that I was allowed to e...

Nolan's films always have a certain mystery to them. Every single film has had it's secrets. But these trailers are truly remarkable because it's from the brain of Christopher Nolan. Which when it created Inception  kept it all a mystery to us. Interstellar is another of these films. Just remark at these trailers that one at a time expand somewhat on what he's trying to say in his films. The first teaser trailer: To the official trailer: To the other official trailer#2: What do you think will happen...it's anybody's guess. But I was officially hooked about 6 months ago. InNolanWeTrust!! @mysticmeg13 on Twitter

Interstellar Finally, a proper almost three minute trailer for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic  Interstellar  has arrived on the web. The full length trailer was shown before Godzilla in cinema screens, which is out now and thankfully been put straight onto the world wide web. It is well worth going to see an epic film like Godzilla  just to see this immersive, intriguing trailer on the big screen. What can we learn from the synopsis of the trailer, which is way more expansive and way more descriptive on what Nolan's sci-fi film will encompass, as the teaser encapsulates just what Nolan is famous for, as his flare for giving just what we need but making sure the mystery remains. Well with Michael Caine's voice over creating a great mystery as to what Nolan's idea of space travel or "interstellar travel" is all about, and just what McConnaughey's corn fields have to do with space travel. Cooper played by Matthew McConnaughey is a "well ...

David Fincher first popped onto the scene in 1995 with the deeply disturbing, but incredibly outstanding, dark thriller  Se7en and   then followed it up with Fight Club a mere four years later that delved deeper in the intricate detail of psychological thrillers. Fincher has always been intrigued and ultimately interested in dark subject matters. Never has he made a comedy, and I think if he did it would definitely be a black comedy. The man is a genius director, an auteur and one of the best directors in the hall of fame. The nearest film that even comes close to a comedy, that features slight comedic elements in the structure of the film comes with 2010's The Social Network . An in depth look at the story that led to the biggest social networking site and one of the most absurd court cases for the copyright of a website. The world of business and young entrepreneurs in the 21st century. Constantly interested in lighting and atmospheric familiarity in his film...

It is refreshing to see a comic book film as bold as this one. To explore a completely distinctive bearing of this superheroes existence as the ultimate "good guy" and live up to his persona as the iconic poster boy for American patriotism, and still be one of the best Marvel films up there with  Avengers Assemble . Captain Steve Rogers has been frozen for 70 years. Awakened from the ice into the 21st century to help the Avengers, he is still adjusting to the modern era. Now working for S.H.I.E.L.D, he makes the transition slowly but surely from not knowing his place, to becoming the beacon of hope for everything good in this world. Whilst kicking some butt and charming everyone around him. Captain America is the only superhero without any actual product of superpowers; but that what was administered through a super serum. He doesn't have the power of flight, he isn't a god of thunder, or has a heart made of iron. But other than having superhuman strength, power ...

T he brilliance of Monsters, (the 2010 debut film from director Gareth Edwards)   lied with its creation from such a tight budget. The fact that the very monsters who were wreaking havoc, war and destruction on humanity weren't revealed until the end of the film, is weaved so well into a fantastic plot twist you won't see coming. Director Gareth Edwards wrote, directed and created the critically lauded film with the special effects being created from scratch on his own laptop. Managing to create such a film that took everyone by surprise; that it was compared to an indie  Cloverfield  in terms of being a   hit, not commercially but for the most critically lauded as one of the best monster films for a long while. I had no expectations whatsoever about the film Monsters , that when the film had finished so brilliantly and the credits rolled up the screen, I had this great feeling that some films are greatly under appreciated. It may not have featured a h...