BASEketball
Two lowlifes invent a sport which is like basketball but with some elements of baseball to win a bet and impress a girl. When the game goes big they blah […]
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Escape Plan
I’ve not achieved much in my life, but one of those things I have achieved is watching every Arnold Schwarzenegger film, so obviously I had to see Escape Plan, where he joins forces (again) with […]
Top Gun
Tom Cruise plays “Maverick”, the best pilot in the Navy. Wait… the Navy? Surely you mean the Air Force. No, it’s definitely the Navy, I checked. Maybe there’s a Cruise connection there […]
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 […]
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 […]
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Set in Holland in 1655, this is the story behind the famous painting. Scarlett Johansson plays a maid who works for the painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth), inadvertently becoming his […]
Deep Blue Sea
“Shark attack” is a stupid sub genre. If you’re not Jaws (1), you can get lost as far as I’m concerned, and that includes piranhas too. Deep Blue Sea takes […]
Rash of Bacon Part 6: Footloose
Set in 1984, before the invention of self-awareness, Footloose follows Ren (Kevin Bacon), a big city boy who moves to a small town where dancing is banned. I don’t like […]
Rash of Bacon Part 4: Flatliners
Flatliners finally gave us the pairing everyone had been waiting for: Joel Schumacher of Batman and Robin and Kevin Bacon from those Kevin Bacon adverts. Eat your heart out Scorsese and […]
Only God Forgives
As you may realise from the title, Only God Forgives is a look at the darker side of human nature. It starts out with a Bangkok drug dealer raping and […]
