This time around Jason Bourne finds himself pitted against… the Director of the CIA. I seem to remember this was the basis of the first Bourne movie, but it’s been an awfully long time. I didn’t see the last one, with Jeremy Renner instead of Matt Damon, but Damon is back in this one, and he’s become very beefy.…
DetailsRumor has it that best-selling author Robert Ludlum sold the original 1980 Bourne novel, The Bourne Identity, with a one sentence pitch: “What if James Bond got amnesia?” Seems like it’s no accident that both heroes’ names start with the initials J.B. It’s also probably no coincidence that, when left with a choice between Henry Cavill…
DetailsIf you’ve seen the trailer to Swiss Army Man, you may want to save your money and skip the movie. The film has some deliriously beautiful moments, but unfortunately, they’re given away for free in that ad – beautifully, hugely, with full score, intact in the dark. All the best moments are shown – so what…
DetailsJohn Carney’s Sing Street is a total delight from start to finish, and the best film about the pure joy of making music since We Are The Best! (2013), with which it shares similarities. Like that exuberant, inspiring film, Sing Street is about a group of kids forming a band in the 1980s. The girls in We Are The Best! were in Stockholm,…
DetailsWell, despite being at Comicon this week, I am still able to get some all-important film news to you, albeit a tad late. So, let’s find out some stuff! It may hardly be news, but San Diego Comicon International is well under way, and I had the pleasure of being there for Ric Meyer’s Superhero and…
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