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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: 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: Law Abiding Citizen – Stupid and nasty

    Review: Law Abiding Citizen – Stupid and nasty

    3rd December 2009 | 9 comments | 3 people like this

    If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you might have picked up that I quite like action films. If you haven’t, allow me to explain; I quite like action films. That is to say Die Hard is my favourite film of all time, and Crank is the best action film of recent years bar none. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have extensive tastes, it just means that my...

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  • Review: Surrogates – Putting the ’sigh’ in Sci-Fi

    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 West

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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