The Prestige (2006)

The Prestige (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 30, 2006Rival Victorian Stage Magicians
Christopher Nolan directs a beautiful period piece with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival Victorian stage magicians. The film is an elegantly crafted Hall of Mirrors and illusions, capped by sterling performances from all involved

Red Riding (2009)

Red Riding (2009)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 31, 2017Hunt for a Serial Killer
Depending on how you saw this, this is either a UK tv mini-series or three separately released films. Taking place over a decade, the three stories have a common locale and overlapping characters in the story of the hunt for a serial killer and the battle against a corrupt police department in Yorkshire

Iron Man Three (2013)

Iron Man Three (2013)
Rating: ★★
May 3, 2013Comic-Book Superhero
A major disappointment. Firstly, stripping the superhero of the show of his suit is dull, makes for no more than a regular action hero, while the film's treatment of comic-book canon and reduction of Iron Man's No 1 villain to a cardboard threat ranks somewhere down alongside a Batsuit with nipples

Transcendence (2014)

Transcendence (2014)
Rating: ★★
Apr 19, 2014Scientist's Mind Uploaded Into a Machine
A film that bites off some Big Ideas from the transhumanist movement – A.I., nanotechnology, and especially Mind Upload – and fails to do anything with them except for reach for hoary cliches of Frankenstein science. A film that, despite its self-importance, ends up as only a better budgeted version of The Lawnmower Man

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 21, 2018Wonder Woman's Creator Biopic
Biopic about William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman This covers the key aspects of Marston's life and how it influenced the comic-book and delves into the highly unconventional lifestyle he led in a polyamorous relationship and exploring BDSM