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Justice League (Blu-ray Review)

24th March 2018 By Tim Isaac

Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher
Directed By: Zack Snyder
Running Time: 120 mins
BBFC Certificate: 12
UK Release Date: March 26th 2018 (UK)

Our Score

Poor old Justice League. It’s a superhero team-up that fans have been waiting for decades for. When it was announced a couple of years ago it immediately sounded like it would be the biggest movie of 2018. However, following the lacklustre reception to the Warner/DC movies that led up to it (Wonder Woman excepted) and production problems including director Zack Snyder leaving due to personal problems and replacement Joss Whedon extensively retooling the movie only months before release, it certainly didn’t bode well. It also felt like Warner Bros. had slightly given up on it, or at least they failed to generate the sort of hype the movie needed, with a weak marketing campaign and little sense that this is what we’d all been waiting for.

As a result, it’s ended up as the lowest grossing of all the DCEU movies, behind even Suicide Squad. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher  DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder  FILMS: Justice League  

Wonder Woman 2 May Get Kristen Wiig As Its Villain

1st March 2018 By Tim Isaac

While there was plenty of talk about how Wonder Woman was a sign that sexual equality in the world of superheroes wasn’t as impossible as some studio executives seemed to think. However, it’s not just the in the ranks of heroes where there’s been a lack of women – the supervillains have tended to be men too.

However, Wonder Woman 2 is looking at adding a female baddie, with Deadline reporting the Kristen Wiig is in talks to play Cheetah in the movie.

Gal Gadot will once more be back in the title role, with Patty Jenkins returning to direct the movie, which will be set during the Cold War in the 1980s. Nothing else is known about the plot, and while we may know Wiig is being lined up to play CHeetah, we don’t know which one, as there have been four incarnations of the villain over the years. All of the Cheetahs over the years have possessed feline characteristics, but some have had superpowers while other didn’t, so there’s plenty of scope for how the character will be used in the movie.

Wonder Woman 2 is currently set for released November 1st, 2019.

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ACTORS: Kristen Wiig, Gal Gadot  DIRECTORS: Patty Jenkins  FILMS: Wonder Woman 2  

New Justice League Trailer – Heroes unite and we finally get a look at the villain

28th October 2017 By Tim Isaac

Although there hasn’t been as much hype for Justice League as we might have expected, the movie is still tracking for a $100+ million opening weekend in the US, when it arrives in cinemas on November 17th. Much of the marketing so far has concentrated on bringing together the heroes – Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash – without giving us much info on why they felt the need to get together.

Now a new, fairly short trailer has arrived, which gives us a little more and a look at the main bad guy, Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds). He’s an integalactic bad guy who brings his parademons to search Earth for something he wants, and he doesn’t mind if the planet is destroyed in the process.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.’

Justice League arrives in cinemas November 17th, 2017. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Ciaran Hinds  DIRECTORS: Joss Whedon, Zack Snyder  FILMS: Justice League  

Wonder Woman (Blu-ray Review)

9th October 2017 By Tim Isaac

Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Robin Wright, David Thewlis
Directed By: Patty Jenkins
Running Time: 141 mins
BBFC Certificate: 12
UK Release Date: October 9th 2017

Our Score

Although DC’s movies have done okay at the box office, the likes of Man Of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad certainly haven’t gained the same level of enthusiasm and fan fervour as Marvel’s movies. However, with Wonder Woman they hit the jackpot, with a movie that was well-received by critics, fans and general audiences, grossing over $800 million at the box office. It set a lot of records for a movie directed by a woman along the way, from being the most expensive film with a female director to the highest grossing.

The film starts out on the mystical island of Themyscira, home of the Amazons. Diana (Gal Gadot) has been trained to be the ultimate warrior, although her mother, Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), is determined that she needs to be protected and shouldn’t find out the truth of her birth.

Literally crash landing into this paradise comes Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), followed by a platoon of First World War German soldiers. After hearing that the world outside Themyscira is at war, Diana decides she must help, as she believes she is the only one who can kill the god of war, Ares, who she things must be behind The Great War. Steve however doesn’t think there is a god influencing things, but he does think that Diana can help, especially as he knows German General Ludendorff (Danny Huston) is working on a new chemical weapon, which could lengthen the war and turn the tide against the allies.

After the effusive reaction the film got at the cinema, for the first hour of Wonder Woman I couldn’t see what the fuss was about. There is an awful lot of set-up, as they explain the island of Themyscira, the Amazons, how the Greek gods fit into all this, and that Diana is somehow special. Then Captain Kirk, sorry, Chris Pine turns up and they have to explain about the war, who Ludendorff is and various other things. It really is death by exposition.

Even when they occasionally throw in an action scene in the early parts of the movie, the special effects aren’t that great, with everything looking oddly plastic and fake, like a cut-scene from a videogame.

Eventually though, they get Diana off the island and she essentially starts taking on the entire German army all by herself. At that point, things get a lot more fun. All the never-ending explanation is replaced with a fun storyline, a snappier pace and better special effects. While the acting isn’t brilliant, Gal Gadot and Chris Pine make a good central pairing, with their romance essentially being played out like Captain America has been smashed together with The Little Mermaid.

Thankfully the second hour and a bit is enough fun that it makes you forget the slog it took to get there. Some will feel the ending is a little dragged out, but it works and even manages a little emotional resonance at times. And despite being set during the First World War, it manages to keep the tone lighter than the earlier DC films, which seemed to be trying to outdo each other with their gritty outlook and edge of nihilism (to be fair, it was actually quite an achievement to make a nihilistic Superman movie). However, it also made those movies less entertaining.

Whereas Batman vs Superman made the case for humanity not being worth saving (I don’t think that was meant to be the point, but it’s the effect of the way it approached things), Wonder Woman has no doubt that the world is a good place overall, even if she may be a little naïve about the way things work. It helps make you root for her and overlook some of the film’s sloppy edges. It’s a lesson that hopefully other DC movies will take note of, starting with November’s Justice League.

As you would expect, the picture quality on the Blu-ray is very good, and it’s backed up by a good selection of special features, which take you into the complex creation of the movie.

Overall Verdict: Although it’s far from a perfect movie and the first hour is mainly boring explanation, the second half is great fun and points towards what DC should have been doing all along.

Reviewer: Tim Isaac

Special Features:
Epilogue: Etta’s Mission
‘Crafting the Wonder’ Featurette
‘A Director’s Vision: Themyscira: The Hidden Island’ Featurette
‘A Director’s Vision: Beach Battle’ Featurette
‘A Director’s Vision: A Photograph Through Time’ Featurette
‘A Director’s Vision: Diana in the Modern World’ Featurette
A Director’s Vision: Wonder Woman at War’ Featurette
‘Warriors of Wonder Woman’ Featurette
‘The Trinity’ Featurette
‘The Wonder Behind the Camera’ Featurette
‘Finding the Wonder Woman Within’ Featurette
Extended Scenes
Blooper Reel

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ACTORS: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Danny Huston, Robin Wright, David Thewlis  DIRECTORS: Patty Jenkins  FILMS: Wonder Woman  

Justice League Trailer – Earth is under attack and needs some new heroes

8th October 2017 By Tim Isaac

When DC announced its plans for a movie universe, the centrepiece was Justive League. However, with only Wonder Woman getting a decent critical reaction in the run-up to the superhero team-up, enthusiasm for the film has been somewhat dampened. That’s not been helped by the fact that a family situation cause director Zack Snyder to leave the film, with Joss Whedon stepping in to resoot a large chunk of the movie and finish it off.

Now we’re only a few weeks until the film is due to be released, and a new trailer has been released.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.’

Justice League arrives in cinemas November 17th, 2017. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons  DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder, Joss Whedon  FILMS: Justice League  

Justice League Extended Trailer – Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg & Flash unite

23rd July 2017 By Tim Isaac

Following the critical and commercial success of Wonder Woman, many are hoping that the DC universe has taken a turn for the better, and that it will continue with this autumn’s much-anticipated Justice League. It’s certainly noticeable in this extended trailer, that Wonder Woman is pused to the fore.

Of course, there’s also Batman (Ben Affleck), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), Flash (Ezra Miller) and maybe even Superman (Henry Cavill), despite what happened in Batman vs. Superman.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat.  But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.’

The movie will be in cinemas November 17th.  [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons  DIRECTORS: Zack Snyder, Joss Whedon  FILMS: Justice League  
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