Michael Bay has been delivering Transformers films for the past ten years now and in that time we’ve had four films full of too much controversy for a franchise based around a line of toys. Whether it be the brazen racial stereotypes in Revenge of the Fallen or actually explaining the…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | DEEPWATER HORIZON
It wasn’t until the credits started to roll at the end of Deepwater Horizon that I realised just how severe this disaster actually was. I mean, the above poster shows just a glimpse of the devastation caused by an explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig around 40 miles…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – TED 2
They’re back. Best friends John and Ted return for some more foul-mouthed fun in the follow up to the hugely successful Ted. The real test for Ted 2 was whether it could survive the curse of the comedy sequel. The answer is a resounding yes and it does so by being just as funny…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – ENTOURAGE
Entourage, the TV show about a movie star and his group of friends trying to make it big in Hollywood, is now a movie about a movie star and his group of friends trying to stay relevant in Hollywood. Your anticipation of Entourage will depend on whether you were a fan of…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – THE GAMBLER
The Gambler is a drama that stars Mark Wahlberg as Jim Bennett, a literature professor who, due to his views of having it all or having nothing, has a severe gambling addiction. As a result of his addiction, Bennett ends up owing money to Lee (Alvin Ing), the head of an underground…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
Remember the incident where Michael Bay was attacked on the set of Transformers: Age of Extinction in Hong Kong? Well, sit through this 165 minute mixture of metal-crunching action and ridiculous dialogue and you may just want to go and attack Bay yourself. Yes, the Transformers franchise returns for its fourth instalment and if…
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