Steve Robinson

Favorite films

  • The Blues Brothers
  • Ghostbusters

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  • The Dark Knight Rises

    ★★★

  • Dredd

    ★★★★½

  • The Avengers

    ★★★★★

  • The Blues Brothers

    ★★★★★

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The Dark Knight Rises

2012

★★★ Added

This is difficult. It's been a few weeks since I saw this at the cinema and I'm actually struggling to anything that stands out about it. I don't have the best memory in the world as it is, but aside from Gentleman Bane and that Batman has been gone for 8 years, the rest of it is some kind of mish mash blur of set pieces and incoherent flitting about.
I enjoyed it, but it lacks any kind of…

Dredd

2012

★★★★½ Liked Added

I've been to see Dredd twice, mainly because one friend couldn't wait and one couldn't make it so it's a good job that it's a cracking film.
I can't speak for people who are familiar with Judge Dredd, just as I can't speak for those that have a raging nerd-boner for him, because I fall into that camp of knowing enough about the universe and having read enough 2000AD to get the references, but not enough to notice when things…

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Avatar

2009

Hnnnnng.....gnnnnnnn...Right, my old nan (god rest her zombie carcass) always said "If you've got nowt nice to say about summat then say nowt." She was probably right and you should never ignore the advice of your elders but this time she can sod. Avatar is fucking rubbish.
Aside from being as derivative as you can get (what with Cameron pillaging stylistically from his own back catalogue among other things) I couldn't tell you a damn thing about the characters aside…

District 9

2009

★★★★ Liked Added

Not subtle at all, but a cracking film. Dark, bleak, grim and funny by turn, it's a brilliant watch.

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