Vendetta proves to be a gripping, pretty good all-action London revenge thriller. Rarely pausing for breath or subtlety, it is plenty tough and busy throughout. Danny Dyer is on good form as SAS Special Ops […]
Writer-director Peter Landesman’s 2013 American historical drama film Parkland re-creates the events that occurred after the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. A stellar cast is lined up for this ‘you-are-there’ realist-style recounting of the […]
Thanks to some fresh ideas and the right cast, this is an enjoyable, darkly funny, violent comedy riff on the Mafia thriller. The central idea is a great one, providing a new spin on the old […]
The original French title is the much more ordinary La vie d’Adèle and that’s exactly what we get. The young life of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is changed dramatically for ever when she meets the charismatic, […]
Jason Statham stars as former DEA drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker, who, after the death of his wife, moves with his daughter to a quiet, seemingly tranquil backwoods bayou town. His hopes for a quieter […]
Directed by James Horne, Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 peerless spoof Western is a blissful 65 minutes of vintage comedy cinema. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy get to sing their hit song On the Trail of the […]
Director John Sturges’s brilliant 1955 Western thriller is his finest celluloid moment, bringing simmering, atmospheric suspense scaldingly to the boil. Spencer Tracy relishes one of his finest roles as one-armed army veteran John J Macreedy, who arrives […]
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