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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: 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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Rubbish Classics Part 1: Loaded Weapon 1 and Beverly Hills Ninja
15th January 2010 | 7 comments | 3 people like this
Debate over whether a film is good or bad is usually pointless*, because at the end of the day the movie industry is about making money, and though artistic value and box office returns are not mutually exclusive, only one of the two is ensuring that a 3rd Michael Bay Transformers movie is on the way. Can you guess which?
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Review: Surrogates – Putting the ’sigh’ in Sci-Fi
28th September 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Let’s get one thing clear to begin with: Bruce Willis is Awesome with a capital A and Die Hard is the best action movie of all time without question. That isn’t based on anything other than personal opinion, and I know many will disagree, but that’s ok too. It’s free will and free speech in action. The main reason I’m making this clear is to outline just how excited I...
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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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