HANCOCK – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A super-hero with a self-loathing problem, and a penchant for causing more damage than is necessary when he uses his ‘powers’. A city who doesn’t like the...
View ArticleKUNG FU PANDA – Hans Zimmer and John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton An animated action comedy from DreamWorks that features an astonishing voice cast – Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu –...
View ArticleBOLT – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The 48th official film in the Disney animated feature canon, Bolt is the story a small dog – the Bolt of the title, voiced by John Travolta – who has lived his...
View ArticleICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The third film in the series of director Carlos Saldanha’s popular Ice Age animated features, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs continues the adventures of sarcastic...
View ArticleHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton We’re in a Golden Age of animated motion pictures. When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s you got one, maybe two films from Disney in a calendar year, plus the odd...
View ArticleHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton John Powell received his first – and, to date, only – Academy Award nomination for the surprise smash hit animated film from Dreamworks, How to Train Your Dragon, in...
View ArticlePAN – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Pan is, by my count, the 1,875th cinematic take on the classic J. M. Barrie story of Peter Pan, which by this stage is starting to look a little well-worn and ragged...
View ArticleJASON BOURNE – John Powell and David Buckley
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Jason Bourne is the latest film in the series of action-espionage films based on the novels by Robert Ludlum, after the original Bourne Identity in 2002, The Bourne...
View ArticleSOLO – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE FILM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WAITING UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE DONE SO TO READ IT. In the...
View ArticleHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Prior to its premiere in 2010, I had never heard of How to Train Your Dragon. I knew nothing of Cressida Cowell’s book series, had pretty much zero interest in...
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THE CALL OF THE WILD – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Jack London’s The Call of the Wild has come to be regarded as one of the seminal adventure novels in the years since its first publication in 1903, and there have...
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DON’T WORRY DARLING – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Don’t Worry Darling is a film that’s almost impossible to categorize. It’s one part domestic drama, one part paranoia mystery, and one part sci-fi/fantasy thriller,...
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