Battle Of The Sexes (2017) - Movie Review

The plot: Former world champion tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) makes a public bet: $100,000 to any female player that can beat him on the court. Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), as a means to show that female tennis players deserve equal pay as the men, accepts the bet. With Riggs’ media circus hyping up the main event, and King trying to juggle her professional life with her blooming attraction to hairdresser Marilyn (Andrea Riseborough), the stakes are set for what would become one of the most famous sporting events in history.

Strange Magic (2015) - Movie Review

When Disney absorbed LucasFilms into its gargantuan mass, sci-fi fan boys the world over let out an echoing sigh of relief. For reasons I’ll get into when I finally get around to the latest Star Wars film, I was not one of them. However, when the company changed hands, there was a project that was still in-development under George Lucas. It was a pet project of his, something he wanted to make that his daughters could watch; what Star Wars was to 12-year-old boys, this would be to 12-year-old girls. Words from the man himself, in case his lack of common sense wasn't already well known. This is something he had been working on since around the time the prequels were first being developed, going through different hands to finally realise Lucas’ vision. Since this vision includes the words ‘romance’ ‘musical’ and ‘based on the works of Shakespeare’, I can hardly wait to see the sudden realisation that just because LucasFilms changed hands, that doesn’t mean that they are immune from making failures. So, in preparation for what will be the inevitable let-down of galactic proportions in a week or so, let’s take a look at the first release from the ‘legendary’ studio post-Disney.