Charlize Theron kicks ass, we all know that. Ever since her performance in Mad Max: Fury Road, people have almost been campaigning to have Theron lead an action film or franchise. Pairing with David Leitch who co-directed the first John Wick film, which Atomic Blonde owes a lot to, Theron certainly packs…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Five months into 2016 and we are already in our fourth comic-book movie of the year. We’ve had the fast-talking Deadpool, the gladiatorial battle of Batman v Superman and an epic showdown between superheroes in Captain America: Civil War but now it’s the turn of the X-Men in X-Men: Apocalypse, a film that doesn’t quite live…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN
It’s hard not to be cynical about Hollywood sometimes, particularly when it produces films as lazy as Victor Frankenstein, an uninspired origin story of Victor Frankenstein and his assistant, Igor Straussman. Before a chance meeting with Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy), a then nameless Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) worked as both a clown…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
X-Men: Days of Future Past is a film that had a recipe for disaster. A plot involving time-travel, a vast amount of characters to fit in and a director returning to a franchise that he left to pursue another project. From all of the trailers I always thought Days of Future Past was either going…
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