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...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets  is a 2017 science fiction action movie directed by Luc Besson and starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. The movie is based on the French comic  Valérian and Laureline  and follows Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline as they travel through various planets in order solve the mystery of a dying alien race that had almost been completely exterminated. The movie's a weird jumble of Star Wars, the Matrix, and Avatar that works in some ways, but falls flat in others This was an interesting movie because it could have easily been good or bad. The trailers immediately show that it was going to be an amazing visual experience, but a lot of times this will come at the cost of the movie's script, characters, and story. But at the same time, if the movie has at least a decent story and characters along with its amazing visuals, then it would be a really fun movie to watch. Unfortunately, the movie falls flat on its face ...