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Wrote a Daymare: 1998 review for BonusStage a few months ago. Figured I should link it here. I didn't like it. Full review -  https://www.bonusstage.co.uk/2020/06/12/daymare-1998-review-4/

Let me just preface this by saying that if you're a Marvel fan, and you haven't yet gone to see Infinity War, then you need to change that. Straight after you finish reading this, that is. Alright, on to the professional stuff. 10 years after Iron Man hit the silver screen and introduced us to what has become the MCU, or the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' if you hate initialisms, Avengers: Infinity War is here. It's t he first part of a two-part story (even if no longer in name), concluding in Avengers 4 next year. Truly the culmination of everything that's come before it, Infinity War takes everything the MCU has built, smashes it together, and the result is one of the best films in the franchise, and no doubt the most expensive. After 18 films, five Infinity Stones, and God-knows-how-many superheroes, Thanos (Josh Brolin) is here. One of the franchise's infamous flaws is with its villains, with the majority of the films failing to offer any that are ov...

22 years after the much-loved Jumanji, its sequel, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has released in theatres. Despite attracting controversy with its announcement, and many (myself included) doubting that the film would be much to behold, Welcome to the Jungle proves itself to be a worthy successor that lives up to the fun and excitement of the original. Welcome to the Jungle is also quite a different film to the original. Instead of exotic animals from another world invading ours, people from our world (unintentionally) journey into theirs, and instead of a Jumanji being a board game, it's now a video game. Things like this make up one of the film's greatest strengths; rather than a re-hash, Welcome to the Jungle is its own thing, in major ways a complete reversal. Yet, it still incorporates plot and style elements from the original in entertaining and touching ways. This time around, Jumanji's "adventurers" are four high-school kids. There's the ner...

Let me just start by saying: Logan is no traditional superhero movie. Get that image out of your head. James Mangold (also director of 2013's The Wolverine ) brings a feature that isn't full of explosive high-stakes action, nor cocky heroes saving the day, on a fun adventure for the whole family to enjoy. No, Logan is a grittier, more melancholic tale. But it’s a fantastic one, and one of the best films about superheroes ever made. Loosely inspired by the 2008 ‘Old Man Logan’ comic series, Logan features a significantly older, and more isolated James Howlett/Logan (Hugh Jackman) than when audiences last saw him. His healing factor is degenerating, and all the mutants from the ‘good old days’ are gone, with seemingly no more being born. To make ends meet, and so he can care for an increasingly insensate, debilitated Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Logan works as a limousine driver. Coming across a young girl/X-23 with similar powers to his own (Dafne Keen), being purs...