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One Battle After Another | Average Guy Movie Review

A former revolutionary, who has spent the last 16 years vegetating in hiding, is forced to get off his couch in order to find his missing daughter, while also avoiding the government forces that are hunting them both. Following his very separate desires to adapt Thomas Pynchon's Vineland , and to make an action movie, Paul Thomas Anderson has somehow combined the two, and in the process created something quite brilliant. One Battle After Another  is, for the most part, exactly what the title suggests; with many of the movie's main characters battling their way through a series of obstacles and challenges. And yet it is so much more. The movie has a lot to say about immigration policy in present day USA, and battling oppression. But at its heart it is the story of two peoples' fight for survival, and a father's desperate attempts - no matter how comical - to find his daughter. The whole thing is set in this crazy alternate world, but one not too different from our own. I...

TRON: Ares | Average Guy Movie Review

Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), the grandson of the man who once stole the work of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), has found a way to bring that which he creates on the Grid into the real world. This includes his Main Control security program; Ares (Jared Leto). The only problem is, he can only keep them here for 29 minutes. Legend has it that Flynn once discovered the key to "permanence", and now it's a race between Dillinger and Eve Kim (Greta Lee), new CEO of Encom, to find it. In many ways TRON: Ares  is exactly what you'd expect of a sequel to the 1982 cult classic. A story about big tech, light cycles, and life within the computer world of 'The Grid', that loosely links to what has come before. This seems to be the tradition that all must adhere to when carrying on the story of Flynn. There are, of course, many call-backs and references to both TRON and TRON: Legacy . But TRON: Ares  is not a direct sequel to either, although some of those not so subtle cal...

The Hack | Average Guy TV Review

Nick Davies (David Tennant), a freelance journalist for The Guardian , investigates the use of phone hacking by the News of the World and The Sun  newspapers. While Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook (Robert Carlyle) re-investigates the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan, one of the Metropolitan Police Service's more troublesome unsolved cases, and one with links to the hacking scandal. The hacking scandal is one of those stories that gripped all of the UK, with equal parts fascination and outrage. Not only were the practices outrageous, so were the lengths that a certain few went to in order to cover them up. That is what Nick Davies found himself up against when he received a tip from an anonymous source as to the scale of the illicit operation being run by the News of the World . He was the first to report on the story, and The Hack  captures what an uphill struggle it was for him to force it into the light. All of which makes him the perfect person - through David Tennant...