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Tony Black

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Biography:

A.J. Black is the author of Myth-Building in Modern Media: The Role of the Mythic in Imagined Worlds and Star Trek, History and Us. He writes about popular culture in entertainment on his blog, Cultural Conversation, and other outlets. He lives in the South West of England.

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The Duellists (1977) 74% “Even by Ridley Scott’s standards, The Duellists is a remarkable way to kickstart a career. Few directors are able to produce such a lush, visually arresting and well-cast film as their first effort.” – Film Stories Oct 27, 2023 Full Review Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) 83% 3.5/5 “The Road Home is a brisk, breezy Babylon-5 adventure, steeped in fan nods and nostalgia, but also keyed in to modern storytelling’s fascination with both the multiverse and also the intersection between science, faith and love.” – Film Stories Oct 14, 2023 Full Review Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) 67% 3.5/5 “With room for growth as a series, Luther: The Fallen Sun is a rewarding, exciting and brutal first foray for John Luther on a big canvas.” – Film Obsessive Mar 13, 2023 Full Review Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) 84% 3.5/5 “At points rich and bold, fiercely projecting strong female black power into the world especially, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a film to be admired first, enjoyed second.” – Cultural Conversation Nov 12, 2022 Full Review DASHCAM (2021) 47% 3/5 “DASHCAM really won’t be for everyone and that’s putting it mildly, but there is much more going on here than simply nonsensical horror theatrics.” – Cultural Conversation Jun 13, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% 2/5 “Dominion is a Frankenstein of a tentpole franchise picture and, when delivered with this kind of poorly written, cheese-filled, jaggedly over-inflated direction—with frequently awful CGI to boot—it is everything wrong with franchise filmmaking today.” – Cultural Conversation Jun 11, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% 4/5 “There will be enormous replay value in Top Gun: Maverick, a film one senses will rank among not just the best sequels or legacyquels, but perhaps one of the finest populist American pictures of the decade.” – Cultural Conversation May 30, 2022 Full Review Last Action Hero (1993) 42% 3.5/5 “Last Action Hero hasnt quite yet become one of those cult movies we venerate and, yknow maybe we should. It does have, within its bones, just a little bit of magic.” – Cultural Conversation Apr 12, 2022 Full Review Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 85% 4/5 “Infinity War is all about balance, in many different respects. Balance and tone, both of which, for a film with such ambition and size, are remarkable in how well they are executed. ” – Cultural Conversation Apr 3, 2022 Full Review Ready Player One (2018) 71% 3.5/5 “Steven Spielberg delivers the ultimate expression of why we digest media, and possibly a glimpse into a world we could all be heading towards.” – Cultural Conversation Apr 3, 2022 Full Review Black Panther (2018) 96% 4.5/5 “Black Panther feels as much like a moment as it does a movie.” – Cultural Conversation Apr 2, 2022 Full Review The Bubble (2022) 20% 1.5/5 “The cast clearly had huge fun making The Bubble. Good for them. It certainly doesnt translate.” – Cultural Conversation Apr 2, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 52% 3.5/5 “Visually and thematically, The Motion Picture is as pure and honourable to the history and themes of Star Trek as anything before or since.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 27, 2022 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 89% 3.5/5 “The Abyss feels like his first attempt to make a film which cant be defined, clearly, as a James Cameron movie, and its probably why its amongst the worst of his efforts, while still being a very good picture.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 24, 2022 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 45% 2.5/5 “Waterworld has the epic scale, the grandeur, the towering oceanic shots, the boisterous (if sometimes misjudged) score and the vast, expensive sets. It just has no soul.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 24, 2022 Full Review Romancing the Stone (1984) 86% 3.5/5 “Romancing the Stone is no searing example of feminist film theory, but it perhaps warrants re-examining in the context of how Zemeckis approaches male and female hero stereotypes.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 24, 2022 Full Review Murder on the Orient Express (2017) 60% 3.5/5 “While this take on Murder on the Orient Express is destined to exist as a Sunday afternoon matinee picture people will throw on and bask in, there is unmistakable depth and humanity inside the confectionary of its exterior and its big-budget staging.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 23, 2022 Full Review Dunkirk (2017) 92% 4.5/5 “Audiences are quite understandably going to consider Dunkirk a war film, quite possibly one of the great war films of our age. Christopher Nolan's tenth picture is possibly an even better survival horror movie.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 23, 2022 Full Review Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 92% 3.5/5 “Homecoming, in the end, is a coming of age origin story which sticks to the Marvel formula while revelling in how good this franchise now is at it.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 22, 2022 Full Review Deep Water (2022) 35% 2.5/5 “Are we aroused in the same way as we enter the 2020s? Adrian Lyne's return with Deep Water looks to answer this question and while it doesn't entirely work, it does open a doorway long thought closed.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 22, 2022 Full Review Fresh (2022) 82% 3.5/5 “Mimi Cave's directorial debut takes a scalpel to what could have been a rather dour and conventional, exploitative tale and peppers it with strangely romantic & twisted black comic gusto.” – Cultural Conversation Mar 19, 2022 Full Review The Adam Project (2022) 68% 2.5/5 “The Adam Project is yet another example of how the Netflix algorithm just isnt to be trusted.” – Failed Critics Mar 13, 2022 Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% 5/5 “The Batman is the triumph we hoped for, and the film DC have desperately been in need of for a long time.” – Failed Critics Mar 5, 2022 Full Review Death on the Nile (2022) 62% 2/5 “Branagh’s film is undeniably a cinematic experience but that, nor the delay, prevent the finished product being a frustrating disappointment.” – Failed Critics Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 93% 4/5 “For me, No Way Home is joyful. Others will find it infuriating and strangely reductive. And either way, it could be a sign of times to come.” – Cultural Conversation Dec 18, 2021 Full Review
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