Leon
After extensive recommendation I finally gave in and paid £4 for this film (about four times my usual budget), and it was worth every penny. When her family is murdered […]
88 Minutes
Thriller set-ups obviously designed to create as much tension as possible are nothing knew. How many films have a ticking time bomb or a threatened girlfriend? In Speed there’s a bus that […]
Expendables 3 Watch: “Kelsey Grammer? Seriously?”
The Expendables series has an ability to create rumours like no other, due to the fact the appeal of the films is almost entirely in their casting. Today we were […]
On iPlayer: King Kong (1933)
Taking a giant monkey to New York is up there with showering at a remote motel and visiting a Transylvanian castle on the list of things which established movie wisdom tells us […]
Reincarnated
This is a documentary about rapper Snoop Dogg on his journey of self discovery in Jamaica where he attempts to find a new, peaceful reggae sound away from the aggressive […]
Contact
Contact is a Robert Zemeckis film from 1997 based on a novel by scientist Carl Sagan. Rather than review it, I’m going to copy Alex’s technique in discussing World War Z and just […]
How Not to Make a Revenge Film
Revenge is one of the great plot drivers. If a character has been harmed we are far more lenient in accepting behaviour that would otherwise be unacceptable. A good revenge […]
On iPlayer: The Ipcress File
In this noir spy thriller from 1965, Michael Caine is Harry Palmer, a London spy who uncovers a web of conspiracy when he’s tasked to track down kidnapped British scientists. […]
Rush
No, it’s not a biopic of mad American shock-jock Rush Limbaugh, played by Naomi Watts. Nor is it a rockumentary about Canadian prog outfit Rush, played by Naomi Watts. Rush […]
Glengarry Glen Ross
An office full of salesmen are put under pressure when a tough outsider (Alec Baldwin) is brought in to get them selling again. When they are told to sell or […]
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