John Boyega

Attack the Block (2011)

Attack the Block (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Sep 9, 2011Alien Invasion on a British Housing Estate
A refreshingly original film that transplants an alien invasion story to a modern British housing estate where a group of young hoodlums become the first line of defence against the invaders
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 26, 2015Space Opera
Ok so it's not another Empire Strikes Back but it makes up for the prequels. A good part fanservice homage to the original – if overly reliant on rehashing elements from Star Wars – this also does many things right and feels a welcome return to the sort of adventure we kept wanting George Lucas to resdiscover
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The Circle (2017)

The Circle (2017)
Rating: ★★
Jul 16, 2017Online Mass Surveillance Thriller
Hollywood tries to make a big message film about online mass surveillance but renders anodyne straw arguments. Meanwhile, back in the real world you cannot help but think things the film depicts things might happen very different
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Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 17, 2018Space Opera
I'm not one of the haters on this. It's the first Star Wars sequel since the 1980s to invigorate the series with fresh and original action sequences, place more focus on the characters instead of the action, and be unconcerned about slavishy repeating what has gone before
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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Rating: ★★
May 5, 2018Giant Mecha Robots
Pacific Rim wasn't Guillermo Del Toro's best film but it was a fun attempt to imagine giant Japanese mecha robots battling giant monsters. This is a sequel but without Del Toro it is reduced to no more than one of Michael Bay's Transformers films
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Watership Down (2018)

Watership Down (2018)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 19, 2019Animation/Talking Rabbit Quest
BBC tv mini-series remake of the classic Richard Adams novel about talking rabbits on a quest. To get it over with, the animation is not the high-end quality that we have been spoiled with by Pixar et al. On the other hand, what remains is an excellent faithfully told version of the story
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