Captain America: The Winter Soldier
“Everyone we know is trying to kill us,” Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to Sam Wilson/The Falcon (Anthony Mackie) At last! Marvel has gone and got political on us. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE meets STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS. The sequel to THE FIRST AVENGER, THE WINTER soldier has, like stablemates IRON MAN 3 and THOR: THE DARK WORLD, actually followed on from THE AVENGERS (2012). Each of our intrepid superheroes is coming to terms with a cataclysmic attack on the Big Apple by alien warriors. THE WINTER SOLDIER (and STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) is a cinematic response to the September 11th attacks, looking at governmental reactions. Liberty, fear, security, all poured into the melting pot. Bravo, for such blockbusters not opting to offer up wafer thin excuses to blow stuff up. [To read more, click here.] |
Love Punch
“You’re going to be so bored,” Kate Jones (Emma Thompson) to Richard Jones (Pierce Brosnan) Brosnan was Bond and Thomas Crown, Thompson has two Oscars, what are they doing starring in such an awkward mess? In the mould of romantic-caper CHARADE (1963), charm-wit-intelligence are absent from LOVE PUNCH. Even supporting players Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie can’t enliven a movie dead on arrival. The foursome applies paddles to kick-start the heart; and when we look in the chest cavity to see why it does not beat, find the ticker absent and the body sans guts or brains too. [To read more, click here.] |