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Dunkirk (Blu-ray Review)

18th December 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Running Time: 106 Minutes
BBFC Certificate: 12
UK Release Date: December 18th 2017

Our Score

Christopher Nolan is one of the few directors who can pretty much make any movie he wants. Thanks to the success of unconventional big budget movies such as Interstellar and Inception – and of course The Dark Knight trilogy – Warner Bros. trusts him to deliver. On the surface Dunkirk seems a more straightforward proposition as it’s a World War II movie, but as this is Nolan, he’s not going to make a war film quite like anyone else.

For a start there’s remarkably little dialogue and while there are main characters, we learn comparatively little about them. Likewise, while it’s about an incredibly famous event, it’s not interested in being an exposition-heavy historical overview, complete with officers pushing little boats around a war-room map to explain to us what’s going on. Instead it’s a film that wants to create a sense of realism about the events it’s talking about. It also has an almost puzzle-box nature – three intercut stories each taking place at a slightly different time – helping to create a sense of the chaos and uncertainty for those caught up in the events of late Spring 1940. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Dunkirk  

Dunkirk (Cinema Review)

21st July 2017 By George Elcombe Leave a Comment

Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Running Time: 106 Minutes
UK Release Date: 21 July 2017
BBFC Certificate: 12A

Our Score

Christopher Nolan is a franchise. Much like the Spielberg summer releases of yesteryear or any film by Stanley Kubrick, there is a devoted audience who can’t wait to see the director’s next film. More often than not, Nolan’s movies are original (to a degree), stand alone and the studio has faith in the director’s abilities.

Nolan’s relationship with Warner Brothers seems to be going from strength to strength and I’ve read that he has a tendency to deliver his movies under budget and before the scheduled deadline.

I also like to believe that the pitch meetings go something like:
Nolan: “I have this idea for my next film.”
Warner’s: “Great, sounds excellent! Here, have some money and let us know once it’s done!” [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Dunkirk  

New Dunkirk Trailer – Christopher Nolan goes to war with Tom Hardy & Harry Styles

5th July 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As always it’s been a summer filled with superheroes and sci-fi, but Christopher Nolan is offering up something a little different in a couple of weeks – Dunkirk. It’s his take on one of the most famous moments in World War II, and to keep us interested a new, minute long trailer has been released.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘”Dunkirk” features a prestigious cast, including Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead. The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.

‘Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.

“Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.’

The movie opens on July 21st. Watch the new trailer below, along with a roundtable interview about the movie. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh, Mary Rylance, Tom Hardy  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Dunkirk  

New Dunkirk Trailer – Christopher Nolan takes us into the intensity of a massive World War II rescue

7th May 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Having spent years in the world of sci-fi and comic books with the Dark Knight films, Inception and Interstellar, Christopher Nolan is doing something a little different. However, as this trailer shows, it’s still going to be on a massive scale, as he attempts to take us deep into events in Dunkirk during the Second World War.

Synopsis: ‘”Dunkirk” features a prestigious cast, including Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead. The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.

‘Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.

“Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.’

The movie opens on July 21st. Watch the main trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh, Mary Rylance, Tom Hardy  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Dunkirk  

Free Fire (Cinema Review)

4th April 2017 By George Elcombe Leave a Comment

Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy
Directed By: Ben Wheatley
Running Time: 91 Minutes
UK Release Date: 31st March 2017
BBFC Certificate: 15

Our Score

There is no doubt that Ben Wheatley is a rising British talent whose previous work effortlessly blends comedy, drama, action, the macabre, surreal tones and suspense; all the while being entertaining and engaging for an audience. But with his movies, you never really know what to expect. It comes as little surprise that he has amassed a well-known and highly talented international cast for his latest feature, Free Fire. However, on this film is he bringing out the big guns or firing blanks, dodgy puns fully intended?

Without giving away too much, Free Fire is a mostly-single-location action comedy about an illegal arms deal in a warehouse between two gangs, which quickly goes sour resulting in all characters having a shootout.

Having said that, I feel that I have disclosed the entirety of the film, which is at heart a simplistic premise with some great lines of dialogue, a cool soundtrack and a few hilarious moments. All in all it’s a fun and often silly watch, but it’s hard to stretch out this concept into a feature length film and it may have been better suited as an hour long TV show.

I’ll start with the negatives first of all by saying that it doesn’t live up to the hype, but don’t let that put you off if you are interested in seeing it. At points the editing is a mess and you wonder how some characters moved into certain areas in the warehouse, and the use of soundtrack isn’t as iconic or well-placed as other 70’s set action films.

It has the feel of a low budget film that was shot in a weekend and to summarise, it’s mostly dubious and incompetent criminals crawling around a dusty warehouse while trying to shoot each other and missing for the majority of its run time.

But now onto the positives! The first part of the film is great at setting up the characters, their history and their dominance over others in the groups, and the catalyst of the shootout is well handled. All in all it’s a great blend of serious, playful and suspenseful.

Standout performances (in no particular order) come from Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley and Sharlto Copley. That being said the rest of the leads are great but, of course, there isn’t a fair enough balance of witty dialogue and screen time distributed between them to make them all shine. However, some of the dialogue is great and expertly delivered by certain actors.

The costumes, haircuts and constant chain-smoking from some characters firmly cement this film into the 70’s, and to be fair some of the songs used in the soundtrack are well utilized. Now I don’t know if this will be a cult classic but it had the demeanour of a cult film. Whether this is intentional or not remains to be seen, but it has some elements of grindhouse cinema and a bit of OTT video nasty gore thrown in for good measure.

It’s entertaining enough but it kind of feels like a stop gap film for director/co-writer Ben Wheatley to get noticed in America. I firmly believe if he chooses to he will successfully make the transition to Hollywood, and hopefully be given creative freedom to create a sinister Marvel movie.

Free Fire is what you’d expect: a seemingly low budget film with a near perfect cast and some great humorous beats, but it’s not the sort of intense non-stop action film you may be expecting. Don’t get me wrong though as it is an entertaining film, but there is only so much you can do with the concept, and Wheatley and his crew have taken it to its limit without dragging it out.

Overall Verdict: A fun and often silly action movie with a great cast and some great dialogue, but it isn’t the explosive film some may be expecting. However it’s an enjoyable crime caper with an authentic 70’s feel that utilizes its concept well.

Reviewer: George Elcombe

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ACTORS: Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley  DIRECTORS: Ben Wheatley  

Dunkirk Trailer – Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance & Harry Styles go to war for Christopher Nolan

14th December 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Yesterday we got the first official poster for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and that’s now been followed by a trailer. While it’s certainly intriguing, it’s perhaps not quite as big as you might have expected, and doesn’t really explain much about the plot, but it does do a decent job of making it look like a slightly more hopeful version of Saving Private Ryan.

It also briefly shows that this marks Harry Styles’ acting debut.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘”Dunkirk” features a prestigious cast, including Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead. The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.

‘Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX® and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.

‘“Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.’

The film will be in cinemas next July. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Tom Hardy, Mary Rylance, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Dunkirk  
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