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Bridget Jones’ Baby

How many second sequels can the reader name that are worth watching? Two spring to mind, possibly three. Bridget Jones’s Baby then seems to be at somewhat of a disadvantage, and the reader could be forgiven for thinking this further evidence of the film industry’s wellspring of imagination running yet dryer. Thankfully the film does […]

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The Magnificent Seven

It has been fifty-six years since John Sturges’s Magnificent Seven, itself a wild-west re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed Seven Samurai from 1954. The 2016 update does not deliver, nor even compare with the earlier films however and while it packs the barrel with explosions and big-name Hollywood actors, pacing issues and a reductive good […]