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  • Review: RED – Die Hard of hearing

    Review: RED – Die Hard of hearing

    27th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    RED* is a comic book action movie in which ageing Hollywood heavyweights indulge in some gunplay and quip-slinging without ever looking like they’re enjoying themselves as much as they might have done ten years ago. Since the ravages of time are afflicting the characters and the actors portraying them there is a kind of melancholy parallel to be found, adding unintentional poignancy to certain scenes. You won’t hate it, but...

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  • Review: The Other Guys – Bringing down the spoof

    Review: The Other Guys – Bringing down the spoof

    21st September 2010 | 2 comments | 2 people like this

    The Other Guys comes out of nowhere, it's funny, then a bit too long, and then over. Like sex with a clown.* Its plot and characters are not as carefully constructed as those of Anchorman, which is from the same team and is better than I’d ever give it credit for in polite society. However, if you enjoy Will Ferrell’s ‘I’m talking loudly so this is a joke’ style of...

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  • Review: Salt – Putin on a brave face

    Review: Salt – Putin on a brave face

    31st August 2010 | 7 comments | 2 people like this

    Taught-skinned serial adopter Angelina Jolie is riding solo in this lightweight action spaff. After an opening that is dragged up from Die Another Day, sans hovercrafts but very much avec North Koreans, her CIA operative Evelyn Salt is returned from her torturous fate to the bosom of mother America to get back to business as usual. That is until a whiskery Russian defector fingers her as a sleeper spy whose...

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  • Review: The A-Team – It was acceptable in the 80s

    Review: The A-Team – It was acceptable in the 80s

    2nd August 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this

    You know that bit in Crocodile Dundee II when Mick is doing his Australian meditating in his flat and a bloke knocks on his door, fires a shotgun through it and is then promptly punched in the face through the door by Mr Dundee?

    Right, well you know when the guy wakes up from his fist-begot unconsciousness, he’s dangling over a balcony by his feet and Mick Dundee is threatening to...

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Joe West

Joe is a writer based in the UK. He is passionate about films, as well as video games and literature, and regularly blogs about new releases as well as forgotten classics and undiscovered gems from around the globe. Sometime's you'll find his posts peppered with fruity, pretentious language, but he means well.

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