About Iain McNally

It says much about how far comic book movies have come and how comfortable mainstream audiences are with reboots that we have reached a stage where a Days of Future Past movie, featuring two teams of X-Men from two established cinematic versions of the franchise, can be made. That the film is directed by the man who helped usher the X-Men onto the silver screen in the first place is almost uncanny.

As someone whose history with Godzilla is limited to Saturday morning cartoons and late night, bleary-eyed reruns of Toho classics on the UK’s Channel 4, I may not be fully qualified to state whether the 2014 model lives up to the expectation of die-hard fans, but what I can say is that it most definitely does stand up to the gestalt Godzilla floating through mainstream pop-culture as well as an enjoyable film.

Marvel Studios’ run of successfully translating their comic book creations to the screen in new and surprising ways, whilst avoiding the pitfalls encountered by their rivals, continues with the second …
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Rebooting Robocop was always going to be a tough sell, even for a dollar. The original 1987 movie is such a classic. Such a perfect product of its time and the crazy genius mind of director Paul Verhoeven that makes it almost impossible to imagine where to even begin with any remake.

Advance press has branded 47 Ronin a flop on the same level as John Carter or The Lone Ranger before it’s even seen release in the west. Is it all that bad? Take a look at this review and see what this reviewer thinks.

With the nine realms under control after the restoration of the Bifrost, Thor and his Asgardian and Human allies must face a powerful ancient enemy, as Malekith and the Dark Elves return seeking vengeance upon the entire universe.

James Cameron has stated publicly that he thinks Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is “the best space film ever done”.
He’s right. Check out this review to see what makes this film so great.

In Pitch Black, Vin Diesel’s Richard B. Riddick taught audiences to simultaneously fear the dark and cheer for him when he lurked within it. In the sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, audiences learned to fear bloated, overly complicated follow-ups. Now in Riddick, the character returns to his savage roots, fighting for his survival on an unknown planet while trying to avoid repeating the beats of the original film.

For his directorial début Keanu Reeves delivers a very satisfying, old school, martial arts, competition flick that marks the start of a promising career behind the camera.

Has Fox finally learned the lessons from the mutant massacres that were X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine and reinvigorate their X-men license to the point where they can even consider attempting to rival Marvel Studio’s Avengers?

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and the rest of the Retired, Extremely Dangerous spies from 2010’s RED are back, finding themselves once again in trouble. Although, this time, the novelty of pensioners wielding pistols is wearing a little thin.

Despite a high powered voice cast, this animated tale of a small snail and his big dreams of making it as a racer doesn’t quite reach the top tier of must-see animated films. Turbo is an odd animated movie. This isn’t a bad thing, as there are plenty of good ones out there that are even odder. The problem is that the world created in those other movies, while weird, manage to maintain a consistent tone. Something that I feel Turbo, to its detriment, doesn’t.