Decimated and beaten. With all the dust settled (sorry) from the end of Infinity War, this is how Avengers: Endgame begins for earth’s mightiest heroes. After 21 previous films and 11 years building to this point in the MCU, the expectations for Endgame are undoubtedly huge and theories on how…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
Twenty-five years ago, Steven Spielberg created movie magic with Jurassic Park, a film that redefined the blockbuster, becoming a worldwide phenomenon in the process. Thanks to 2015’s Jurassic World, a film that smashed all sorts of box-office records, the franchise is well and truly alive, and the reason why dinosaurs…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Ten years ago, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was birthed with Iron Man, a supremely confident film which resurrected a career and started a shared universe of unprecedented proportions. Eighteen films later and an impressive number of superheroes introduced on the roster so far, we arrive at Avengers: Infinity War,…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Three years ago, Marvel Studios and James Gunn introduced us to the Guardians of the Galaxy, a superhero team of outcasts and misfits who resembled more of a dysfunctional family than a cohesive unit setting out to save the galaxy. It’s safe to say the world fell in love with…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – JURASSIC WORLD
Jurassic World is the long awaited new chapter in the Jurassic Park franchise. After the much-loved dinosaur franchise was nearly forced into extinction by the poor Jurassic Park III in 2001, Jurassic World is a film that faced many years in development hell and, quite frankly, became a film that I never thought we would see. Jurassic…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Guardians of the Galaxy is easily the biggest gamble Marvel Studios have ever taken. A venture into the unknown and a plan to introduce a whole new galaxy of characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is something that could have backfired. Audiences are familiar with MCU characters such as Iron…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – THE LEGO MOVIE
The LEGO Movie may just be the most fun I have ever had at the cinema. It is deliriously entertaining and captures the wonders of the imagination right through from start to finish. Who would have thought that to be possible for a film based on a line of construction toys? This…
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