Remember before Prometheus was released back in 2012, when Ridley Scott was adamant that his then latest film was not going to have anything to do with the Alien film franchise? It was one of the most baffling denials to all as it was clear as day that it would tie in,…
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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 Move Reviews – STEVE JOBS
A film about Steve Jobs may not be to everyone’s taste but before you judge a book by its cover, I will let you know that there is no Ashton Kutcher in sight. A film about Steve Jobs directed by Danny Boyle, written by Aaron Sorkin and with a fantastic…
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Week in Game News, 15th August 2014
Robin Williams, 1951 – 2014 The untimely passing of actor and comedian Robin Williams lead to a huge outpouring of grief from the entertainment community, including the gaming community. Robin was a self-proclaimed “hardcore gamer” to such a degree where his daughter is named Zelda after the eponymous character from…
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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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Barton’s Movie Reviews – FRANK
There has been a positive buzz around Frank ever since it premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Truth be told, that buzz is thoroughly deserved. Frank is one of the more intriguing films of 2014 and with a quirky story and its titular character spending the majority of the film wearing a paper mache…
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86th Academy Awards – My Predictions
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this Sunday sees the 86th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. With 24 awards available and with such a wonderful array of films over the past 12 months, this could well be the hardest awards show to call in…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave is a film that I had been eagerly anticipating. First shown here in the UK back in October at the BFI London Film Festival and released in the USA in November, the film earned critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. It is an example 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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