The Pagemaster is a well-meaning but only modestly engaging 1994 mix of cartoon (directed by Maurice Hunt) and live action (directed by the 1995 Jumanji‘s Joe Johnston) plus a worthy message: ‘Books are good for you!’ […]
It’s a shock in 2003 to see a grown-up Macaulay Culkin (aged 23) in his first film since Getting Even with Dad, The Pagemaster and Richie Rich in 1994 as real-life party organiser Michael Alig, […]
Co-writer/director Brian Dannelly’s 2004 release stars Jenna Malone as Mary, a girl attending a Christian high school, whose school pals condemn her when she gets pregnant. Mary thinks she has the perfect Christian boyfriend in Dean (Chad […]
Young Aussie star Heath Ledger (aged 23) cuts a convincing and stylish dash as English gentleman Harry Faversham in director Shekhar Kapur’s lusty 2002 epic movie version of The Four Feathers by A E W […]
Director F Gary Gray’s biopic of mid/late-Eighties rap pioneers NWA from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles merges the expected anger, guns and violence with much, less predictable, humour and sentimentality, making for a complex, informative and […]
A grim, shaven-headed Rupert Friend stars an elite assassin genetically engineered to be the perfect killing machine, with huge strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. Director Aleksander Bach‘s Hitman reboot, based on the video game series, is […]
Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]
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