Tag: Movie

Logan is the final X-Men movie with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. For now, at least. It’s also the first one with an R-rating (17 years and over). And yes, it’s something else.

Over forty years ago, George Lucas reluctantly gave the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: A New Hope to Harrison Ford, who was only helping out at a casting. Now, forty years later, another actor steps into Ford’s enormous shadow and takes up the Solo mantle…

Almost twenty years ago, I picked up a copy of Legends, which opened with ‘the Little Sisters of Eluria’ by Stephen King, set in the Dark Tower universe. Intrigued, I proceeded to buy the first novel of the Dark Tower series. This is not a review of that novel series however.

Last week I saw the 2017 movie based on the Dark Tower novels, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. A great story with two great actors, and produced by Ron Howard (Willow, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind). That has to be good, right?

Avengers: Endgame is out, eleven years after the first Iron Man movie kicked off the Marvel cinematic universe. Forming the capstone to a twenty-two movie story arc is a pretty tall order. Let’s see how it fared.

Captain Marvel is here. The first Marvel movie with a female lead, proudly following in Wonder Woman’s footsteps (Wonder Woman is a DC Comics movie). Let’s have a look.