Tinseltown Reviews

Kingsman: The Golden Circle  is a 2017 action spy comedy directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Edward Holcroft, Halle Berry, Pedro Pascal, Hanna Alstrom, and Julianne Moore. The sequel to the 2014 smash hit Kingsman: The Secret Service  follows Eggsy and the Kingsmen teaming up with the Statesmen (essentially their American counterparts) in order to stop the Golden Circle organization. The Story When Kingsman: The Secret Service came out in 2014, it could best be described as "that one movie that nobody knew about but blew everyone's minds." Literally nobody knew what Kingsman  was other than a couple of people who saw the trailer and thought it was some cool spy movie; I hadn't even heard of it at all until a group of friends invited me to see it. And of course, nobody knew that it was going to be the phenomenon it was--grabbing the world's attention with its fantastically gratuitous violence, commentary on curr

It (also known as It: Chapter One ) is a supernatural horror movie directed by Andy Muschietti based on the 1986 Stephen King novel of the same name. The movie stars Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Jackson Robert Scott and follows seven kids dubbed "The Losers Club" who find themselves haunted by a mysterious being called Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The Characters My biggest concern during this movie was that there would be too many characters. With seven different characters comprising the main cast (especially seven child actors), there were definite red flags in the movie. And while the movie doesn't pull it off 100%, it did do an overall excellent job with it. Not all the characters were given adequate screen time and a few felt unnecessary--mostly Mike (the black kid) and Stan (the Jewish kid). Of course, I understand that you really do need all the kids f