Category: Culture
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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
Odeon East Kilbride, 02.06.11 The year of sequel followed by prequel followed by sequel roles on, with another outing for the X-Men, although this franchise at least has the decency to offer a historical prequel reboot, thereby giving it a certain freshness lacking from other multiple offerings like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides…
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THE WAY
Cineworld Glasgow, 24.05.11 Once upon a time Emilio Estevez was famous for ’80’s action-comedies like Stakeout (John Badham, 1987) and comic spoof films like National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (Gene Quintano, 1993). He even tried his hand at writing and directing this sort of film early on, starring with brother Charlie in the over complicated and so-so Men At…
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES
in 3D, at Odeon East Kilbride, 18.05.11 Back in 2003, when the first Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) was due for release, there was debate about whether a film based on an adventure theme ride could sustain a story over a two hour-plus running time. As it turned out,…
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HANNA
Odeon East Kilbride, 06.05.11 There’s so many things that don’t or shouldn’t work in Joe Wright’s latest film that it shouldn’t be any good, yet somehow, it still works as an enjoyable, fast-paced piece of entertainment. There’s not much plot, and what there is seems to be utter nonsense. Hanna (an excellent Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage…
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THOR
in 3D, Cineworld Glasgow, 03.05.11 It was always going to be a difficult ask. As noted in many places, the story of Thor, and his hammer, was always going to be the most difficult of the Marvel Avenger superheroes to translate from comic to screen. In fact, it may well be that the only…
Iain Kelly 