There has been an awakening...

Saying I'm excited for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is like saying Donald Trump is a bit racist. Calling it an understatement would be an understatement. As a result of my stupidly high levels of excitement, I'm going to dedicate the next week (in theory) to purely Star Wars content. Starting from today, I'm going to review all six Star Wars films as well as The Force Awakens (in theory). In other words, I get to channel my excitement and you get to read some reviews (in theory).

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Is Super 8 Any Good?

Super Gr8 Super 8 - A Late Film Review by Nathan Brooks Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of a train exploding. A little while back, Disney bought Star Wars off of George Lucas. Shortly afterwards, they announced they were going to make not one, not two, not three, not four, not fi- oh no wait, it is five. Five new Star Wars films, the first of which, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is being directed by J.J. Abrams. The real question, however, is whether Abrams will do a good job of it or not. Well, this is the film that makes me confident he will. Story On it's own the story isn't extremely amazing, it's just about a bunch of kids discovering a government conspiracy, although it is still interesting. It doesn't reveal too much, meaning you're kept in the dark throughout the majority of the film, so you're always wanting to find out what happens next. The thing is though, that's sort of a sub plot. The main part of the story is th...

Molly's Game Review

Up until this point, Aaron Sorkin has exclusively been a writer. Responsible for creating iconic TV shows such as The West Wing and The Newsroom , as well as recently penning the screenplays for The Social Network and Steve Jobs , Sorkin's dense, witty and rapid-fire style is successful with critics and audiences alike. However, Molly's Game marks Sorkin's first time in the director's chair. Unlike The Social Network and Steve Jobs , where Sorkin's writing was filtered through directors David Fincher and Danny Boyle respectively, this is purely his vision . Is it any good, or is it just an indulgent attempt to cram as many words into 140 minutes as possible? There is no doubt that Molly's Game is an Aaron Sorkin film. Dialogue is the centre of attention and for good reason: it's excellent. Of course, it isn't exactly naturalistic. Every line sounds like one that you come up with an hour after a conversation and wish you'd said instead. Howe...

My Top 10 Favourite Films of 2018

Last post , I had a look at numbers twenty to eleven of my favourite films of 2018. Therefore, it stands to reason that in this post I shall take a look at numbers ten to one of my favourite films of 2018. So, let's do that. 10. Avengers: Infinity War The premise of Avengers: Infinity War is so inherently ambitious that you can forgive any of its flaws due to the fact that they pulled it off at all. Superhero films have a storied history of collapsing under the weight of an overstuffed cast; just look back at the infamous Spider-Man 3 and Amazing Spider-Man 2 or even the Avengers’ own Age of Ultron . Infinity War succeeds where those films have failed thanks to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely’s remarkably efficient screenplay and the Russo brothers’ emotionally detailed direction. The character development is embedded ingeniously into the narrative, as the situations the heroes (and the villains) are placed in directly challenge them and flesh them out. All of...

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