In hindsight, it makes more sense than not that Abrams' The Force Awakens was a play-it-safe carbon copy of A New Hope, especially given that it was the first entry since 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, the last of the despised prequel trilogy. But there’s no denying that, despite its many strengths, it was a film weighed down by the past. Even in its controversial disposal of Harrison Ford's much-loved nerf herder, it was something of a Han Solo-centric film, though its decision to cast him into the ether in the first place spoke volumes about Disney's plans to start wiping the slate clean.
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Sunday, 7 January 2018
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Review
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Based on the
classic Agatha Christie novel of the same name, and following along the tracks
of numerous televised adaptations, Murder
on the Orient Express (2017) sees Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, arrive
in the form of an impressive-moustache-wielding Kenneth Brannagh, who also
directs. After boarding the legendary train for a break from his work, Poirot
meets a colourful assortment of characters (equally-colourful is the
train-hoggingly-enormous cast that plays them). But when an avalanche stops the
train its tracks, the passengers wake to find that one among them has been murdered in
their cabin. With “probably the greatest detective in the world” on board, so
begins an investigation.
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