Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]
‘Yippie-ki-yay!’ The 1988 blockbuster hit Die Hard is sometimes named as the greatest action thriller of all time. An amazingly fit and fine Bruce Willis eagerly grabs his role of a lifetime as John McClane. The […]
Yippee ky-nothing. The fifth instalment of the Die Hard franchise is a bit of a dud but it does get a lift from an epic car chase across Moscow and your residual sympathy for its […]
The star and director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reunite for this efficient and competent 2013 gangland revenge thriller that delivers good genre thrills with a smart arty overlay without reaching any great […]
‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]
‘I had to tame him’, Pi realizes. ‘It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.’ Boasting astounding cinematography, marvellous production […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s thrilling 1942 World War Two pursuit thriller Saboteur is a fast, fine and stylish exercise in excitement and high anxiety. Robert Cummings stars as innocent LA aircraft munitions factory worker Barry Kane, who […]
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