Nothing in American Made is actually American-made: not the guns, which are Russian Kalashnikovs, nor the drugs, which are made in Colombia. The American genius comes in combining drugs and …
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Nothing in American Made is actually American-made: not the guns, which are Russian Kalashnikovs, nor the drugs, which are made in Colombia. The American genius comes in combining drugs and …
You gotta love Gerard Butler. Actually you don’t, you may find him obnoxious and beyond the pale – but at least you have to appreciate that he’s deeply unfashionable. He’s …
The place is Berlin. The time is November 1989, the fall of the Wall. The 80s songs on the soundtrack are moody, dramatic and sometimes German: ‘Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst)’, …
How did this get so ugly? The trailer made it look quite jolly – and the bar, after all, is pretty low: get two specialists in combustible exasperation, Samuel L. …
Quentin Tarantino – who gets a thank-you in the closing credits – famously opined that the scenes of violence in his films should be viewed like the dance numbers in …
Looks like the journey/destination problem in horror has been solved, or at least resolved. The problem is endemic to ghost stories – slasher movies don’t suffer from it – and …
Maybe I’m too cynical for Stratton. Maybe we all are. Or maybe it’s just a bad movie. John Stratton (Dominic Cooper) is a cruder James Bond, lighter on the quips …
The Dark Tower stands at the centre of the universe, but “the mind of a child can bring it down” says an opening caption. The mind of a child is …
What’s the protocol for reviewing remakes of well-known older films? I re-watched Don Siegel’s 1971 version of The Beguiled, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, just a few days before …
We open in silence then bullets explode out of nowhere, splintering the silence. Five young soldiers run for their lives, down a silent Dunkirk street – but the bullets keep …
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