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Survivor ** (2015, Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Frances de la Tour, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Roger Rees) – Movie Review

Milla Jovovich stars as a kickass US State Department employee whose job on her new posted to the American embassy in London is stopping terrorists from getting into the US. With her brilliant instincts, she smells […]

Jun, 03

Contact **** (1997, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, David Morse, William Fichtner, James Woods, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 1108

‘Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.’ Co-producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film stars Jodie Foster, who plays Dr Ellie Arroway, a young, driven astronomer who receives humankind’s […]

Apr, 18

Olympus Has Fallen *** (2013, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo) – Movie Review

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 […]

Mar, 24

The Score (2001, De Niro, Brando) – Classic Film Review 908

Three acting greats — Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando — are lined up for director Frank Oz’s thrilling and stylish 2001 heist film. It’s set in Montreal, where a priceless ancient sceptre is […]

Mar, 12

Strange Days *** (1995, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Film Review 760

Britain’s Ralph Fiennes is oddly cast as American ex-cop turned cynical cyberpunk Lenny Nero in a sea of troubles in director Kathryn Bigelow’s nastily violent ‘apocalypse soon’ sci-fi thriller, made in 1995 but set cannily […]

Jan, 27

Black Nativity – Film Review

Writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s film of Langston Hughes’s famous 1961 African-American stage musical is a well-crafted, conscientious labour of love. A modern-day, reinterpreted story concerns Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen raised by his about-to-be-evicted single mother in Baltimore, […]

Dec, 06

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