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Alex Murray (Director)
Aug 3, 20223 min read
Film Review: The Railway Children Return
It wouldn’t be summer without a light-hearted and heart-warming British film to perk us up on those wet evenings. Luckily we have had...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 27, 20223 min read
Film Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
(The following review contains no spoilers!) Even though the Marvel Cinematic Universe started with Iron Man back in 2008, which was 14...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 20, 20223 min read
Film Review: Minions: The Rise of Gru
The Minions have become one of the biggest and one of the most successful original franchises in the last decade. These yellow...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 18, 20223 min read
2022: The Mid-Year Review
Who can believe that we’re halfway through the year already!? Time always appears to fly by and this is especially true since this is the...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 13, 20223 min read
Film Review: The Black Phone
There are certain horror filmmakers that just understand the genre much more than others. Guillermo Del Toro loves the mythology of...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 11, 20223 min read
007 James Bond: Past, Present and Future
The name’s Bond, James Bond. No other character in cinematic history has a more iconic opening line than that of James Bond. From the...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jul 6, 20223 min read
Film Review: Elvis
Baz Luhrmann is known for his glitz and his glamour in his selected filmography. The sex-appeal of Romeo + Juliet, the campiness of...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 29, 20223 min read
Film Review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
I very rarely review films like Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, and even though it is because I love the allure of big action-based films...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Film Review: Lightyear
It’s been a long time since a Pixar film was released on the big screen. The past three entries from the animation studio have been...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 20, 20223 min read
2022: The Film Directors
With cinema, there are always films you look forward to that are either sequels, reboots or prequels, as mentioned in my previous blog...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 15, 20223 min read
Film Review: Jurassic World: Dominion
(The following review contains no spoilers!) I was far too young to watch Jurassic Park in cinemas back in 1993, but many years later...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 8, 20223 min read
Film Review: Top Gun: Maverick
Every now and then a film comes along that changes the way we see cinema. There are dozens and dozens of movies being released each...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 6, 20223 min read
Walt Disney Animation Studios: Past, Present and Future
It’s December 21st, 1937, and in America, there is a change in the air across all the local cinemas. At the time it was seen as something...

Alex Murray (Director)
Jun 1, 20223 min read
Film Review: Everything, Everywhere All at Once
In this day and age, there is a continuous argument over originality versus franchises when it comes to storytelling on the big screen....

Alex Murray (Director)
May 25, 20223 min read
Film Review: Firestarter
Stephen King has an impressive track-record when it comes to storytelling. When it comes to adapting his work for the big screen though...

Alex Murray (Director)
May 23, 20223 min read
2022: The Summer Preview
I believe 2022 has been a rather polarising year so far, in terms of the state of cinema anyway. Films such as Fantastic Beasts: The...

Alex Murray (Director)
May 18, 20223 min read
Film Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
(The following review contains no spoilers!) Marvel Studios can do no wrong. They’ve given us compelling characters who transform into...

Alex Murray (Director)
May 11, 20223 min read
Film Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage has a lot of range. He has appeared in small films, indie films, foreign films and big-budget films and he never adheres to...

Alex Murray (Director)
May 9, 20223 min read
DC: Past, Present and Future
While drafting this blog I had to resist titling it, DC Comics, mainly because the “C” in DC stands for Comics and the “D” stands for...

Alex Murray (Director)
May 4, 20223 min read
Film Review: The Northman
Robert Eggers is a filmmaker who loves to commit to authenticity as well as an unflinching rawness to the stories he brings to the big...

Alex Murray (Director)
Apr 27, 20223 min read
Film Review: The Lost City
In this day and age, we live in a very crowded marketplace with dozens of films being released each year that are either based on comics,...
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