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Fast & Furious 6 [ Hits:62 ]
Review: Fast cars, leggy women, big guns, money and loads of piston-pumping action is the stuff of the Fast & Furious. Six movies in and it's like they're just starting their engines as the flags go down and the winner takes all. Although to be fair, the road has had some twists, veering into new territory with Tyrese Gibson in 2 Fast 2 Furious and then reinventing the series altogether with the third one, Tokyo Drift. The Fast & Furious franchise has come a long way - peaking with their hybrid...
Bernie [ Hits:47 ]
Review: Jack Black is an irrepressible jack-in-the-box and pent up ball of energy ready to explode. At least, that's how most of his characters come across - making him funny, outrageous and supremely entertaining. When he does tone his performance down in something more sedate, we notice. Bernie is one of those films, reconnecting Jack Black with School of Rock director, Richard Linklater, to tune into his sweeter side in a remarkable true story. Bernie Tiede, a small town mortician, was a very popula...
Promised Land [ Hits:73 ]
Review: Promised Land deals with the contentious fracking debate, which isn't surprising, considering it's a Gus Van Sant film. The director is known for tackling difficult subjects head-on and he's opted for a big one as far as environmental concerns go. While he's quite fearless in most of his films, he's taken a step back with his approach to Promised Land, delivering a quietly powerful message that's neither backdrop nor full-blown propaganda.Instead of beating us over the head with the issues or go...
Bullet to the Head [ Hits:76 ]
Review: Bullet to the Head is a long-awaited match-up of Hollywood veterans, Walter Hill and Sylvester Stallone. Walter Hill directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in Red Heat and Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing, so it was only fitting that he complete The Expendables 2 triumvirate with Sylvester Stallone in Bullet to the Head. Stallone's had a good run of form rebooting Rocky and Rambo, with a tongue-in-cheek tribute to action men with The Expendables, which is about to become a trilogy. The Italian Stallio...
Dead Man Down [ Hits:85 ]
Review: The original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo duo, Niels Arden Oplev and Noomi Rapace, have teamed up again for Dead Man Down. While another revenge-fueled crime thriller in the style of Guy Ritchie and Jo Nesbo, Dead Man Down has more artistic appeal in the vein of Killing Them Softly. The mix of gangster grit and borderline cheesy girl next door romance is propelled by a serial killer plot line as an anonymous middle man taunts a crime lord with a puzzle. While there are some notable similariti...
Little One [ Hits:127 ]
Review: Little One is the story of a mother, who takes a young girl under her wing. The story is simple, yet the circumstances are not. A six year old girl has been left for dead in the veld near a middle aged woman's home near an informal settlement. After saving her life, an inextricable and life-changing mother-daughter bond is formed between the rescuer and victim.The story is truly heartbreaking and there's a tensile emotional undercurrent that drives this simple, yet beautiful film. The endless re...
Iron Man 3 [ Hits:256 ]
Review: Iron Man surpassed expectations, while Iron Man 2 hovered below them. Just when we thought the Iron Man saga needed a bit of oil, The Avengers knocked any signs of rust off the rocket-powered Tin Man with Robert Downey Jr. stealing the show once again (with the Hulk's permission). So the excitement around the May Day release of Iron Man 3 has been building and with Robert Downey Jr. starring, what could possibly go wrong?Iron Man 3 fuses a number of Iron Man comic book storylines together to cre...
Trance [ Hits:170 ]
Review: "You're back in the room." What happens when are our eyes are closed and our subconscious has the run of the place is a mystery in itself. Whether we're dreaming, hypnotized or in a state of deep relaxation - we seem to be vulnerable to the power of suggestion by the voices around us. Trance explores this state with a similar edge to Inception, Memento and even Fight Club. A fine art auctioneer (McAvoy) becomes the missing piece to a gang's recovery of a stolen Goya artwork. After a knock on t...
Oblivion [ Hits:214 ]
Review: Tom Cruise has now done three science fiction films: Minority Report, War of the Worlds and Oblivion. The first two under blockbuster juggernaut, Steven Spielberg, were well-received with Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report winning approval from critics and audiences alike, with War of the Worlds making a less convincing case. Oblivion, however, is a Joseph Kosinski film. While not nearly in the same league as Spielberg, Kosinski showed promise at the helm of Disney's recent remake/sequel...
The Impossible [ Hits:136 ]
Review: The Impossible is one of those films that you dread watching, because you know you're going to have to endure real devastation and emotional upheaval. It's the kind of drama you end up seeing because there's nothing else to watch, your curiosity got the better of you or you heard it was a must-see. The affects of the tsunami that killed over 250,000 people in Thailand in 2004 literally rippled throughout the world. Tourists and locals were washed away and families separated in a matter of minut...
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