Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (3D) **
A CGI triumph and a character fail, with a story/adventure worth telling far, far better.
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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (3D) ****
It’s the end of an era – and an adventure for a Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman – who has long dumped his The Office persona) that started in 2012. What better way to conclude it than an almighty battle to define all battles. This episode is much like writer-director Peter Jackson’s The Lord …
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ****
The second film in The Hobbit trilogy was always going to have its work cut out to be a worthy piece of cinema in its own right, with Peter Jackson and team trying to give the fans what they want, while keeping focus and excitement brewing for the finale, There And Back Again next year. …
The Three Musketeers ***
Author Alexandre Dumas‘s classic novel The Three Musketeers has been done to death, time and time again. None so like this swashbuckling silliness that’s child-friendly and borrows heavily from Gulliver’s Travels and the success of the Pirates franchise. Paul W.S. Anderson’s film centres on young hothead D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) – as well as lots of …
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ***
There’s an undeniable buzz of excitement at the thought of Captain Jack Sparrow returning for yet another swashbuckling adventure, simultaneously mixed with a feeling of intrepidation that the Sparrow charm might fail to translate this time around, especially after a four-year break. Sparrow is still a character with a lot of mileage, and thankfully, Johnny …
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New York, I Love You – 3*
Big cities worldwide draw all walks of life, and therefore, provide absorbing material for film-makers trying to discover another angle in the way they live, breathe and connect their inhabitants. There are some potentially intriguing and original storylines to indulge in, in this collection of 11 intriguing snapshots of life in the Big Apple, but …