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Movie Review: Iron Man 3

April 29, 2013 in Entertainment, Film & TV

Like every other geek in the world, I’ve been looking forward to Iron Man 3 since 2012’s The Avengers. Well, if I’m honest, I’ve been looking forward to the next instalment of Iron Man since I first heard of him in 2008. You get the idea that the now-sober Robert Downey Jnr puts a lot of himself into hard-living genius millionaire Tony Stark and he’s great fun. One of Downey’s first comeback movies was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005, directed by Shane Black, who helms Iron Man 3. It was snarky, funny, and what is now called meta, a Hollywood piss-take starring a couple [...]

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The Hunger Games: Book or Movie?

March 30, 2012 in Books, Film & TV

The long wait is finally over (or in my case, the month wait); The Hunger Games opened in cinemas across the world last week and had a pretty big opening weekend raking in a cool $214.3million worldwide, eclipsing (see what I did there) The Twilight Saga series. The film was released to mostly positive reviews (of course, there will always be people who are disappointed) and has an average Rotten Tomatoes rating of 85% (at time of writing). I, for one, personally enjoyed the film (review here). I felt that it was relatively faithful to the book and conveyed, as [...]

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Film Review: 21 Jump Street

March 27, 2012 in Film & TV

Recently I went to see 21 Jump Street. I have to admit I did not know what to expect. Being too young at the time, I had never seen the original series, but as a Johnny Depp fan I had heard of it. In recent years I haven’t been to the movies very much and I’ve all but given up commercial TV so I hadn’t seen a preview or know a single thing about the storyline. The movie opens in a high school scene with a very Eminemified Jonah Hill and an 80s jock-looking Channing Tatum. Although my first thought [...]

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