Film thoughts – Bladerunner 2049

The first thing that needs to be said about Bladerunner 2049 is that it is not a typical Hollywood blockbuster – those who go in expecting an upping of the action quotient, quickening of the pace from the methodical pacing of the original and a Gosling/Ford tag team smashing their way through adversaries left, right…

Film thoughts – Total Recall (2012)

With all the remakes and reimaginings doing the rounds at people’s multiplexes in recent years it was probably inevitable that sooner or later someone would try a new take on one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action classics, and now we have one in the shape of Total Recall. This new version of the Philip K. Dick…