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Before We Go (2014) - Chris Evans' Directorial Debut

Previously, called 1:30 train this romance movie is Chris Evans' directorial debut which was first shown at Toronto international Film Festival. Brooke Dalton is a buyer and art enthusiast from London who misses the last train home from Boston, and gets robbed for her bag. She drops her phone and as she rushes towards the departing train. Forced to leave grand central station after it closes, she ends up meeting Nick Vaughan, a Bostoinian trumpet player who is due to go to an interview for the job of his dreams the next morning. Together they rush across Manhattan's lower east side to try and get home before Brooke's husband. Along the way they open up to each other about Nick's old relationship with Emma who he met while he was a sophomore in highschool. Brooke also has relationship issues with her husband after discovering emails showing he is having liaisons with a woman called Liz. Brooke also tells Nick the reason she needs to get back is because she wrote a lette

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Review

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Dir. Matthew Vaughn Adventure, Action, Comedy, Thriller and Crime I decide I would watch this because I’d seen trailers for when it came out and decided to watch it, especially after seeing Firth in “The King’s Speech” The first thing that I noticed was the editing particularly in the fight scenes because they’re sped up, when normally for a spy movie they would be slowed down. It’s quite simple technique when you think about editing especially as I don’t think I’ve seen it done before in fight scenes- that’s why I think it works so well.   I also found that I liked the sound design because songs that tied into certain event or feeling onscreen like when Eggsy steals a car and messes about with it to spite his stepdad’s gang. The song played is Bonkers with the lyric “ Some people think I'm bonkers, but I just think I’m free” playing at that moment to introduce Eggsy and his relationship with other character like his mum and his stepdad’s gang me