Posts tagged action adventure
Review: Tron: Ares (2025)
Review: Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares succeeds as an audio-visual sensory experience but it lacks substance.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromTron: Ares, TRON: Legacy, Tron, legacy sequel, Joachim Ronning, Jesse Wigutow, David DiGilio, Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, science fiction, computers, digital characters, digital world, AI, IMAX, audio, visual, Nine Inch Nails, electronic music, Past Lives, tech, technology, action, adventure, action adventure, DisneyComment
Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning lives up to its promise as the culmination of Tom Cruise’s spy action franchise.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromMission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, action adventure, action, stunts, legacy, legacy sequel, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, spy adventure, AI, airplane, nuclear armageddon, nuclear war, end of the world, submarine, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, deep seaComment
How Sean Connery Made The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) a Boys’ Own Blockbuster
How Sean Connery Made The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) a Boys’ Own Blockbuster

The casting of the man who was James Bond transformed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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Essays, Yesterday's CinemaAnton BergstromStephen Norrington, James Robinson, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng, Naseeruddin Shah, Tony Curran, Shane West, Richard Roxburgh, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, LXG, comic book movie, adventure, action adventure, adaptation, comic book adaptation, Victorian EnglandComment
James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987)
James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987)

Consider Dalton an injection of energy.

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Reviews, James Bond 007, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton Bergstrom1980s, action, action adventure, action movie, Afghanistan, Andres Wisniewski, arms dealing, Art Malik, Caroline Bliss, Cold War, colonialism, Czechoslovakia, defection, Desmond, espionage thriller, Euro-thriller, Geoffrey Keen, Ian Fleming, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Glen, John Rhys-Davies, Maryam d'Abo, Michael G- Wilson, Richard Maibaum, Robert Brown, sniper, spy movie, The Living Daylights, Thomas Wheatley, Timothy Dalton, USSR, Walter Gotell Comment