Tag: Gary Oldman

After a brief but solemn montage depicting the fall of humanity, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens with a close-up of an…

In light of the original 1987 Robocop’s predictions about Detroit’s financial collapse, mechanical drones, and lawless corporatism all coming true, a lot of critics…

In describing Paranoia, I suppose I could deprecate its uninspired plot about a struggling software engineer coerced into industrial espionage, or I could bemoan…

It occurs to me that super-heroes don’t have cinematic trilogies. They get a clunky but promising origin tale followed by two sequels, the first…

Don’t listen to the fanboys. The Dark Knight does not transcend the super-hero genre, reinvent it, or do anything of the kind. I don’t…

I could spend days analysing each scene in Batman Begins, explaining why the film constitutes a perfect origin story for the Dark Knight. After…