Sean Evans

Owner of Back to the Movies and Born in Stoke on Trent Sean Evans set up this website to talk about films the way you'd talk to your friends about them. No critics, just fans.

Hail, Ceasar! Review

Hail, Caesar! is light fun from the Coen brothers. I can see why it left general audiences cold but I am surprised it only did so-so with critics as this is a full-on film buff movie and satirical love letter to old-school cinema in general. Roger Deakins is essentially God with a Camera – this…

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The Call Up Review

“A scary glimpse into an Augmented future” – Back To The Movies A group of elite gamers are invited to a trial of a new virtual reality game called The Call Up where one winner will win $100,000. The gamers are transported into a virtual world that surpasses anything they’re used too at home and…

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X-Men: Apocalypse Review

  I wanna start out by saying that when the first “X-Men” film hit theaters I was only 10 years old. “X-Men” came before any Spider-Man, Hulk, or any other Avenger for that matter when it came to a theatrical movie.   I remember seeing it on opening day, so excited. It was like I’d…

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Married Life Review

Films like Married Life don’t come around very often. Ira Sachs’ genre bender was given a limited release in 2007 but I doubt many people are familiar with it, which is weird given its starry cast: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, and Rachel McAdams. A highly stylized cross of Todd Haynes’ superior Far From…

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