Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr Watson (Nigel Bruce) are recruited to ensure a future king gets safely back from America to his homeland after his father’s assassination. But killers are also aboard their ocean […]
Angelina Jolie does her action heroine thing again as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after a defecting Soviet spy accuses her of being a Russian agent about to kill the Russian […]
Writer-director Peter Berg’s 1998 black farce crime thriller is an intriguing mixed bag of grisly dark-toned fun. It can boast some Very Good Things (the star performances) as well as some Very Bad Things (the […]
For fans of stop-at-nothing, after-the-pub laddish comedy, there are loads and loads of big, dirty and hilarious laughs all the way through Todd Phillips’s in-your-face 2009 comedy film The Hangover. Not sure quite what to […]
The then Observer film critic Philip French told me recently that he was the only journalist to praise the 1984 Red Dawn (well, that’s not quite true, but you see what he means). Praising it […]
My fellow people of the world, there’s bad news. Unfortunately, it seems that Olympus, that’s American Secret Service code for the White House, has fallen to pesky foreign terrorist invaders. They’ve flown in, shot up […]
Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2003 serious-minded action thriller finds Bruce Willis on good form as a gung-ho US Navy SEAL lieutenant in Africa. But he finds that ‘God has already left Africa’ when he leads […]
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