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It’s hammer time! Kenneth Branagh's Thor has a theatrical charm

Thor

It’s hammer time! Kenneth Branagh's Thor has a theatrical charm

20 Apr 2011

(12A) 130min Kenneth Branagh may have seemed like an unlikely choice to direct Marvel's Thor but he pulls it off with considerable style to kick-start the summer in fun fashion. By no means perfect, and inferior to both Christopher Nolan's genre…

Valkyrie

Valkyrie

22 Jan 2009

THRILLER Secret Germany and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler get the 24 treatment in Bryan X-Men Singer’s engaging new thriller. Months before the end of World War II, aristocratic Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise…

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

29 Nov 2007

OPERA (PG) 138 min Kenneth Branagh’s version of As You Like It was the most misconceived Shakespeare movie in living memory. News that he planned to transfer Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute to the battlefields of World War One did not bode well…

Sleuth

Sleuth

15 Nov 2007

Some typically terse Harold Pinter dialogue aside, Kenneth Branagh’s reworking of Anthony Shaffer’s theatrical two-hander is an annoyingly clueless affair. Having played opposite Laurence Olivier in the original, Michael Caine now switches to playing…

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