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Director Rob Walker’s violent 2000 crime thriller focuses on the story of a Brighton hit man who is asked to run an old friend’s casino. But first he must carry out one last contract killing. […]
Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his kidnapped estranged daughter, in the stupendous 2008 action thriller Taken. Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA […]
As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]
After their success with Swingers in 1996, Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up again in 2001 as youngish boxer buddies mixed up with a crook (Peter Falk) and a money-laundering plot for the much […]
Michael Douglas lifts director Gary Fleder’s solid, old-style, if frankly contrived 2001 Hollywood thriller as Dr Nathan Conrad, a psychiatrist whose eight-year-old daughter Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak) is abducted by crazed crooks. They are desperately […]
Robert Altman’s neglected 1998 movie is an awkward but by no means negligible noirish thriller, based on a John Grisham original screen story. Kenneth Branagh gives an exceptional performance as a very flawed, unsympathetic hero, […]
In 1995, Pierce Brosnan steps suavely into 007’s shoes, after a six-year gap in James Bond movies since Licence To Kill. The 17th Bond film GoldenEye is a busy, excitingly entertaining action adventure that proved […]