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Logan 2017
I was expecting this to be dark; darker than the fur of the aliens of "Attack the Block", which was already the blackest black. It wasn't. Jackman can do old and grumpy and veiny very well but I didn't get the depth this was aiming for. And I am never fooled by the addition of a small child hero (see also Electra). I wanted to be made all the feels but this was barely half a Black Beauty
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Dunkirk 2017
I really enjoyed this. Slightly understated for Nolan, it focused on the attempts of one soldier, Tommy, to get home from France. The gore and viscera were kept to a bare minimum, instead following the reactions of the survivors as they planned their next steps. In doing so, they were allowed to be flawed: hungry for rescue: longing for home and,literally, not prepared to queue. Having said that, there was a hierarchy of heroism, with the RAF pilots (inc Hardy…
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Argo 2012
Slightly disappoined by this. It has such potential but I was put off by Affleck walking around for most of the film like a tall lump of misery with a beard. He should have used another lead and just stuck to directing as the parts he was not in felt much brighter, particularly those with Cranston, playing his CIA boss and Goodman and Arkin, the two Hollywood connections. The hostages themselves melded into a mass of moustaches and Deirdre Barlow…