Silver Screen Queens

Luc Besson is back with another sci-fi epic based on a series of comics and featuring a world where the International Space Station has morphed into the Interplanetary Melting Pot. It stars hipster darlings Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, and features a sweet cameo from Rihanna, but it has not had good press, or box office.

• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) - IMDb
• The Fifth Element (1997) - IMDb
• Titan A.E. (2000) - IMDb

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Steven Soderbergh’s latest film had an insidious marketing campaign that meant we saw the trailer every time we went to the cinema in the last few months. Unlike many films, however, each time we saw the trailer, we liked it more. It hits a number of our special interests: heists, Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and fast cars, so we went in with some excitement.

• Logan Lucky (2017) - IMDb
• Seth MacFarlane singing Ya Got Trouble from BBC Proms 2012 - Broadway Sound - YouTube
• [HD] SING My Way - Mike (Seth MacFarlane) - YouTube
• Channing Tatum - Posts
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) - IMDb

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A sleeper hit of the summer, this film has had great word of mouth, so we had to check it out. Real life couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon collaborated on the script, based on a crisis they dealt with early in their relationship. When Emily is struck with a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself dealing with her parents, while also managing his Pakistani family’s traditional expectations and building his own comedy career.

• The Big Sick (2017) - IMDb

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Charlize Theron stars as an ass-kicking British spy in this thriller whose slick, shiny trailers took the internet by storm earlier this year. Tired of waiting for a female James Bond to fall in her lap, Theron secured the rights to Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City and made it happen for herself. The film is directed by former stuntman and part-time John Wick director David Leitch and set in Berlin just days before the Wall came down.

• Atomic Blonde (2017) - IMDb
• Trabant - Wikipedia
• Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED - YouTube

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The new Christopher Nolan movie, aka the Harry Styles movie, is out and it actually looks good. Based on the evacuation of British troops from the beach of Dunkirk in 1940, the trailers show a pretty, patriotic flick featuring Tom Hardy as a Spitfire pilot and Mark Rylance as an old dad volunteering his boat for the war effort.

• Dunkirk (2017) - IMDb

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Sofia Coppola’s latest film won Best Director at the recent Cannes Film Festival (making her the first woman director to win the award), and has had some good word of mouth. We haven’t always loved Coppola’s films, but we decided to give it a go when we saw the stellar cast.

• The Beguiled (2017) - IMDb

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One of the more interesting directors working today, Edgar Wright is back with this passion project. It’s had some great reviews, and has been popular with audiences, so we were excited to watch it.

• Baby Driver (2017) - IMDb
• Hot Fuzz (2007) - IMDb
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - IMDb
• Shaun of the Dead (2004) - IMDb
• The World's End (2013) - IMDb
• Paris, Texas (1984) - IMDb
• Riff-Off w/ Jamie Foxx & Ansel Elgort - YouTube
• Brazil (1985) - IMDb

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Spider-Man is having his third reboot in 15 years, but this time he is…coming home [geddit]…to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We have our reservations, mostly related to the shabby treatment of Andrew Garfield, but we went in with open minds and our faith in Marvel’s ability to entertain us.

• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) - IMDb
• The Breakfast Club (1985) - IMDb
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - IMDb
• Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) - IMDb
• Hulk (2003) - IMDb
• Tom holland dancing (snapchat) - YouTube

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A small film about the Armenian Genocide that dropped at Cannes in 2016, THE PROMISE attracted our attention because it stars Oscar Isaac. Shot on a tiny budget, and working around still-sensitive governments, THE PROMISE brings the story of this little-discussed piece of history to audiences through a long sweeping romance about a young man yearning to be a doctor.

• The Promise (2016) - IMDb
• ‘The Promise' Puts Armenian Genocide Onscreen and Donates Profits to Charity | Hollywood Reporter
• The Promise's director thinks Armenian genocide deniers are behind hostile online ratings - Entertainment - CBC News
• For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada (2012) - IMDb

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We watch the fifth Transformers movie so you don’t have to!

• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) - IMDb
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Tour 2015 - YouTube
• The Transformers: The Movie (1986) - IMDb
• Legend (1985) - IMDb
• ‘Transformers’ a GM ad in disguise - Business - Autos | NBC News
• Michael Bay » ‘Transformers’ Director Firing On All Cylinders
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) - IMDb
• Transformers: The Last Knight: Now Playing | Paramount Pictures
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) - IMDb

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