Recently, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword sinfully injected the over-the-top style of a Michael Bay film into the Arthurian myth. Now, Transformers: The Last Knight inserts pieces of the Arthurian legend into a Transformers film. What on earth did poor old King Arthur do to deserve such a fate? Admittedly, the film’s opening sequence in which Arthur
Read morePrior to seeing the new Wonder Woman film there was hope it would provide something different from the typical po-faced tedium of DC adaptations like last year’s awful snoozer Batman vs Superman. Wonder Woman does offer something a little different and in many ways it succeeds although a little it too often succumbs to superhero movie formula. The film does
Read morePirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is yet another lumbering, plotless farce in what has to be one of the most undeservedly successful franchises in cinema history – first film excepted. These Pirate films should be rollicking campy adventures but they’re so waterlogged with cgi and so incoherently plotted that they lack both sense and charm. Also,
Read moreDirector Edgar Wright built his reputation on genre parodies, such as zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead, that were often funny and cartoonishly violent and which cleverly sent up the distinctively odd behaviours of that species known as the English male. His latest film, Baby Driver is neither a pastiche (despite recalling other films) nor is it an English lad
Read moreSo here it is, yet another Spider-Man reboot with a completely new cast, this time featuring young British actor Tom Holland in the title role. It seems there’s a global conspiracy to conscript everyone on earth into the role of Spider- Man. Although not quite an origin story or a remake, this film Spider-Man: Homecoming is, in many ways (which
Read moreWith funny, street smart, cartoonishly violent gangster movies like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch Guy Ritchie was, in the 1990’s, being touted as Britain’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. Unfortunately, his recent, confusingly-plotted, over-the-top, near-indigestible offerings such as the Sherlock Holmes movies and the irritating Rock’n’Rolla have seen him become more like Britain’s answer to Michael Bay. Consequently,
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