David Fincher Series #7: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009)

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is something of an enigma in David Fincher’s back catalogue, a film which, on the surface, is wholly unlike anything in his recent work, and a truly unique piece of modern directing, a fact that finally registered enough with the panel at the illustrious Academy to nominate Fincher for Best Director. This also marked the third time that Fincher teamed up with Brad Pitt as his leading man, solidifying the type of working relationship that has proved so successful for a number of Hollywood’s best directors. From Martin Scorsese teaming up with Robert De Niro to Steve McQueen’s more recent work with Michael Fassbender the joy of finding a leading man who understands your methods is a rare gift, and one which Fincher and Pitt, like those before them, have embraced.

David Fincher Series #6: Zodiac (2007)

After the somewhat troubled production of Panic Room, David Fincher went on his longest break between features, five years passed before he returned with his gripping true crime tale of one of America’s most infamous cold cases, that of the Zodiac serial killer. With the suitably named Zodiac in 2007, Fincher once again entered into the world of crime and dark psychology, and the impact of crime on those who are unfortunate enough to encounter it.

Entourage: Small Screen to Big Screen: A Giant Leap

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After eight seasons of following the collected entourage of fictional Hollywood leading man, Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), the groups’ star-studded fictional trips behind-the-scenes through La-La Land have finally been treated to the big screen treatment themselves. This is a movie about movies and the fictional lives that take place behind the moviemaking process, all the glitz, glamour and drama of Hollywood’s rich and famous is given Entourage’s unique comic treatment; the test for this film was whether the style of the TV show is transferrable to cinema screens without alienating or tarnishing the product the loyal fanbase have grown so accustomed to.

San Andreas: A film with more than just one fault

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The big budget summer disaster movie of the summer has arrived. San Andreas is the latest in a long line of similar disaster movies, with virtually every conceivable type of disaster been given the big screen treatment over the decades. The disaster movie has come to be one of Hollywood’s most enduring and lucrative genres in that time, and the obvious reason as to why Hollywood’s appetite for destruction has continued so unabated. Consider that alongside the idea that there is something endlessly fascinating about witnessing the destruction of man’s creation by nature, and the repercussions that may conceivably take place in the immediate aftermath.

Mad Max: Fury Road

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Three decades in the offing, and Mad Max is finally back on our big screens. Following the cult Eighties hits starring a youthful Mel Gibson, Tom Hardy has taken the wheel as the titular Mad Max, in this latest descent into the frantic and insane post-apocalyptic wasteland, for a suitably intense road movie. Fury Road hasn’t lost any of the visionary intensity of George Miller’s crazed future world, it’s arguably even added something further to it, which can often be where so many re-imagined franchise films can fall down; however, perhaps because this film retained its original creative director, George Miller, Fury Road is able to bring us right back into it’s world without missing a beat, welcoming both original fans of the series and new audiences alike.