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DVD Review – ‘Entebbe’ is important politically, but drab as a movie

13/09/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Ben Schnetzer, Certificate: 12, Daniel Brühl, Drama, DVD, Eddie Marsan, Entebbe, José Padilha, Lior Ashkenazi, Nonso Anozie, Rating: Poop, Rosamund Pike, September 2018, Thriller

Political resonance cannot save the historical hostage thriller Entebbe from its own lack of tension and lacklustre cinematic style.

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Review – Hostage thriller ‘Entebbe’ gets bogged down in reaching for innovation

22/05/201824/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ben Schnetzer, Certificate: 12, Daniel Brühl, Drama, Eddie Marsan, Entebbe, José Padilha, Lior Ashkenazi, May 2018, Nonso Anozie, Rating: Pop, Rosamund Pike, Thriller

Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike play German hijackers in true story thriller Entebbe, which follows a shocking real event from 1976.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 105 – Is Melissa McCarthy less funny than an animated garden gnome?

21/05/201821/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Bohemian Rhapsody, Coralie Fargeat, Daniel Brühl, Entebbe, Life of the Party, Melissa McCarthy, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Podcast, Revenge, Rosamund Pike, Sherlock Gnomes, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Zombieland 2

Life of the Party is bizarrely terrible, while Sherlock Gnomes is just bizarre. We also review hostage thriller Entebbe and French horror Revenge.

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Road to Avengers: Infinity War – Best Marvel Cinematic Universe Villains So Far

21/04/201822/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, Daniel Brühl, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, James Spader, Kurt Russell, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Michael B Jordan, Road to Infinity War, Tom Hiddleston, Top Five, Video

With Thanos about to shake things up in Avengers: Infinity War, who are the best villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far?

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Review – ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ is a tonally muddled, but interesting, sci-fi tale

08/02/201808/02/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Aksel Hennie, Certificate: 15, Chris O'Dowd, Cloverfield, Daniel Brühl, David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki, February 2018, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Ortiz, Julius Onah, Rating: Pop, Roger Davies, Sci-Fi, The Cloverfield Paradox, Thriller, Zhang Ziyi

It made waves with its sudden and unexpected Netflix release, but is The Cloverfield Paradox a worthy sequel for the sci-fi franchise?

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Review – The Zookeeper’s Wife

10/05/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, April 2017, Certificate: 12, Daniel Brühl, Drama, Efrat Dor, Iddo Goldberg, Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Michael McElhatton, Niki Caro, Rating: Poop, The Zookeeper's Wife

Jessica Chastain leads a wartime drama that tells an important story of defiance against the Nazis, but carries a little too much Hollywood gloss.

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Review – Captain America: Civil War

22/05/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2016, Action, Anthony Mackie, April 2016, Captain America, Captain America: Civil War, Certificate: 12, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Daniel Brühl, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Emily VanCamp, Jeremy Renner, Marvel, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Rating: Pop, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Superhero, The Russo Brothers, Tom Holland

Review of 2016 superhero actioner Captain America: Civil War, directed by the Russos and starring Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.

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Review – Woman in Gold

31/05/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2015, April 2015, Certificate: 12, Charles Dance, Daniel Brühl, Drama, Helen Mirren, Historical, Katie Holmes, Max Irons, Rating: Pop, Ryan Reynolds, Simon Curtis, Tatiana Maslany, Woman in Gold

Review of 2015 drama Woman in Gold, which follows Helen Mirren as an Austrian woman attempting to reclaim a family heirloom.

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Review – A Most Wanted Man

28/09/2014 Tom Beasley 1 Comment 2014, A Most Wanted Man, Anton Corbijn, Certificate: 15, Daniel Brühl, Grigoriy Dobrygin, John Le Carré, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Rating: Poop, Robin Wright, September 2014, Thriller, Willem Dafoe

Review of the 2014 espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, featuring a great performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Top 10: Shocking snubs of the 2014 Oscars

20/01/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 12 Years A Slave, 2014 Oscars, 86th Academy Awards, All Is Lost, American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Coen Brothers, Daniel Brühl, Emma Thompson, Idris Elba, Inside Llewyn Davis, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Monsters University, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford, Rush, Saving Mr Banks, The Butler, Tom Hanks, Top Ten

The top ten shocking snubs at the 2014 Oscars, featuring those films that seemed made for awards success, including Rush and Inside Llewyn Davis.

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2014 Oscars: Predicting the Academy Award nominations

15/01/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 12 Years A Slave, 2014 Oscars, 86th Academy Awards, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuarón, All Is Lost, American Hustle, Amy Adams, August: Osage County, Barkhad Abdi, Before Midnight, Billy Ray, Blue Jasmine, Bob Nelson, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Dern, Captain Phillips, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christian Bale, Coen Brothers, Craig Borten, Dallas Buyers Club, Daniel Brühl, David O Russell, Emma Thompson, Enough Said, Eric Singer, Ethan Coen, Ethan Hawke, Gravity, Her, Idris Elba, Inside Llewyn Davis, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Jeff Pope, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Coen, John Ridley, Jonah Hill, Jonas Cuarón, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, Julie Delpy, June Squibb, Kate Winslet, Labor Day, Lee Daniels, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lupita Nyong'o, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughey, Melisa Wallack, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Nebraska, Oprah Winfrey, Paul Greengrass, Philomena, Richard Linklater, Robert Redford, Rush, Sally Hawkins, Sandra Bullock, Saving Mr Banks, Spike Jonze, Steve Coogan, Steve McQueen, Terence Winter, The Butler, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tom Hanks, Tracy Letts, Woody Allen

The Popcorn Muncher starts coverage of the 2014 Oscars by predicting the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.

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