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The story of Led Zeppelin's formation and early days told by the three surviving members plus snippets from a previously unheard John Bonham interview. There's some superb archive footage in the doc but if you're a Zep fan it doesn't really tell you that much new and if you're not, the two-hour running time might be a bit off-putting.
Saw it in IMax so the music was appropriately loud.
At the end of the day though, it's three old men sitting in their separate castles rather than playing music together and that made me feel a bit sad.
I felt I should hate it because everyone else appears to hate it but I didn't hate it. Chris Evans gets all the best lines. It's completely unhinged. I've seen worse.
So Prey is to Predator, Alien Romulus is to Alien - a back to basics focus on what made the first film so effective, although Romulus doesn't quite reach the heights of Prey. It very much feels like an Alien film for the next generation (and my 17 year old LOVED it and was particularly complementary of the fact that the dialogue actually reflected how young people talk to each other). There's a bit of every Alien film in here,…
Big, glossy Indian sports biopic based on a true story (with, I suspect, many liberties taken) of a boy who dreamed of Olympic gold. It's a film with a huge heart, its consistently entertaining and at times hilariously over the top. It contains no less than three training montages but just the one song and dance routine.
Director Jon Spira has dedicated his latest documentary to my late brother, so I was never not going to like it. But... The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee is, genuinely, a supremely engaging, thoughtful and at times laugh out loud funny telling of the actor's long life. Narrated by a black and white marionette of Christopher Lee who is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz (thankfully doing more of a homage to the great man than an out-and-out impression), the film…
It's big, it's loud but most importantly it's really, really stupid. The first half is stupid, and the second half is even more stupid than that. It's far too long (but this was helped by watching it in an amazing 102 year old cinema that still puts an interval in every film) and I had a really fun time with it.
My knowledge of Godzilla films is limited to a VHS triple pack I had in the early 90s, but I don't doubt those more experienced than I who say this is one of, if not the, best Godzilla films made.
It's a fantastic achievement, all the more so when taking into acount it's relatively microscopic budget. Characters you care about, a proper story, emotioanl highs and lows AND A MASSIVE RADIOACTIVE LIZARD.
Maddest thing I've seen in years. Only two walkouts in the middle class community cinema in my middle class town, which was slightly disappointing. Sporadically brilliant, looks incredible, but the story it tells does not need to take 141 minutes.
If I have one complaint about Christopher Nolan's meticulously contructed biopic, it's that I couldn't help but feel that some background reading needs to be done first in order to get the most out of it. That aside, it's quite an achievement. Surely an Oscar for Cilian Murphy, and if there's any justice, Robert Downey Jr as well.
In the pantheon of "old man goes on a long journey by unusual means to visit someone who is seriously ill" films, this is a very distant second to The Straight Story.
It was exactly what I expected. Paper thin plotting, fabulous animation, Jack Black being Jack Black etc etc.
In an era of bloated two and a half hour blockbusters, this was a zippy 90 minutes. Stuffed full of references that sailed right over my head. I appreciate I'm really not the target audience but the teenagers I took thoroughly appreciated it.
I thought it was fine. Needed more plumbing scenes though.
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