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A tale of an unconventional Irish Guarda, whose idea of policing seems as far from lawful as and of villains he comes up against as he spends his time drinking, drug taking and whoring in…..

Keneth Branagh, he of Shakespearean and board treading fame directs in his first but yet another superhero tale plundered from the Marvel Universe (what would Hollywood have done this past few years without comic books?)…..

Pirates. Just what is the fascination with the genre, and how is it that the PoTC series has managed to establish itself as such a strong franchise? These questions are not going to be answered…..

So a decade later and a total of eight films brings the curtain down on Harry Potter and his chums in David Yates finale. This is not just a film to many including my family…..

I’m a fan of JJ Abrams – well his move s at least ‘Lost’ left me cold, ‘Fringe’ blows hot and cold but I enjoyed ‘Cloverfield’ and his ‘Star Trek’ reboot blew me away, mainly…..

Road trip movies tend to follow a pretty well-defined path with soul searching and discovery at the heart and revelations on the way…Michael Winterbottom has taken a somewhat different tack with this outing, using Steve…..

As with many of the richly mined comic genre movies, at some point they feel the need to go back via a prequel and tell the beginning (or mine the franchise some more) and in…..

Second outing for Duncan Jones after his triumphant ‘Moon’ and one that I have been waiting for to see if he is the real deal. If you saw the trailer for this you could be…..

Respected: The ‘50s;Revered: The ‘60s;Remembered: The ‘70s;Ridiculed: The ‘80s.Disparaged as ‘Cheesy’ by those too young to have experienced them, the ‘80s supposedly bucked the trend of music tradition before order was restored in the ‘90s.From…..

The Coen brothers remaking True Grit? Seems somehow illogical but I’m told that this version is faithful to the novel in terms of the dialogue and storyline…quite what that means is of course that any…..