The very idea of Adam McKay, director of Anchorman and Step Brothers, making a film about the financial crisis in the mid-2000s brought on by the uncontrolled build-up of the housing market, is one that left me scratching my head. Centred around such a serious subject, I just couldn’t see what McKay would…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – FURY
There are few things in this world as brutal and unforgiving as war. Often laying waste to built up areas and affecting the lives of many, war is just one of those things we wish didn’t happen at all. Over the years, Hollywood has produced many films depicting the horrors of…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – The Counsellor
Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt in a film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy, author of the novel No Country For Old Men. It is a recipe that should have made The Counsellor a contender for film of the year. Instead, what we ended…
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