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Bullet to the Head was Walter Hill’s long awaited (by me anyway) return to directing after a ten-year absence. When it came out in February it was not well received and not screened in advance for critics, but now it’s out on home formats it’s time for an agonising re-appraisal of the film. Taken on its [...]
Having grown up as a teen on the troubled streets of South Central Los Angeles, writer and director David Ayer is fast becoming the best chronicler of the crime, social injustice and random violence that forever plagues the city of angels. Since writing the screenplays for Training Day and Dark Blue, Ayer has turned to [...]
When it comes to the fourth instalment of a largely straight to DVD franchise starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, you can usually be sure of a few things. The formula won’t be changed much, there will be the pre-requisite amount of violence and grunting and both of them will just show up [...]
Die Hard 5 hits UK cinemas today and if you glance to the bottom right of your screen on a Windows PC or top right of your screen if you’re on a OS device, you’ll see the date is the 14th February also known as Valentine’s Day! Those clever chaps at Twentieth Century Fox ms [...]
The first Taken was released ahead of the US in the UK and opened to pretty bad reviews and subsequently disappeared from cinemas pretty quickly. Then about four months later it opened in the US in a cut form and was a massive box office success. This release coincided with the UK DVD release so people [...]
For a straight to DVD franchise, the Death Race series is shaping up to be something quite impressive. The second movie, wittily entitled Death Race 2 was actually a far better movie than the Paul WS Anderson remake of the 1975 Roger Corman produced Paul Bartel directed original that came before it. The trick was it told [...]
Love it or hate it, it seems the grindhouse inspired aesthetic of sleaze and violence is here to stay. The latest straight to DVD title to take up this tradition of imitation exploitation is the brilliantly named director Barry Battles and his southern set action flick The Baytown Outlaws. The plot concerns the Oodie Brothers; McQueen, [...]
Imagine if in The Usual Suspects, that great twist that nobody saw coming regarding the identity of Keyser Soze, the criminal genius pulling the strings was revealed twenty minutes into the film. Maybe if this had been the case we wouldn’t know any differently and the film would still be hailed as one of the [...]
Despite seeming to have more and more multiplexes with over ten screens than ever before, we still found ourselves in a situation where a lot of great films end up not getting a cinema release or more frequently end up playing for one week only at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. With the rise [...]
The writing team of actor Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg has yielded some of the most memorable comedies of recent years. In particular their ability to balance the genre elements and treat them as seriously as the dialogue heavy comedy is something to be applauded. Pineapple Express and The Green Hornet worked (or didn’t for [...]
Narrowly missing out on the ‘Dumbest Movie of the Year’ award to Battleship is The Expendables 2. Sylvester Stallone takes a back seat in the directing stakes this time around and hands over the directorial duties to Simon West who once made Con-Air, so you could be forgiven for thinking you were in for a [...]
The original 13 Tzameti which came out in 2006 was a stripped down, black and white tense thriller that relied on its central gimmick of an underground game of Russian roulette as the main draw to the film. It was successful at what it set out to do and remains one of the most tense and [...]
This film is baffling by its very existence, it’s almost like a late night drinking session with Will Ferrell and his frequent collaborator Adam McKay and some of their Funny or Die cohorts ended up getting way out of hand. You can just imagine the conversation along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be funny if [...]
The distribution and reception to Mel Gibson’s latest starring role in How I Spent My Summer Vacation (aka Get the Gringo) is a real sign of just how far this former box office king has fallen. The film played for barely a week in UK cinemas and went direct to DVD in the states. Even [...]
Review contains mild spoilers Much the way that Die Hard was endlessly imitated ad-nauseum throughout the 90s, now it seems that the modern action template is the adventures of a certain Jason Bourne. The Cold Light of Day wants to be The Bourne Identity so bad it’s painful for both the film and the audience. [...]
It was a relatively poor few days in terms of cinema attendances this past weekend as the general public made the collective decision to make the most of one last dose of sunshine before five months of jumpers, freezing mornings and flood warnings. In fact, the market was so bad this past weekend, takings were [...]
Growing up I always had a fascination with Hong Kong action cinema. The stylized action coupled with gritty narratives was something that amazed me time and time again; it was unlike anything that was coming out of Hollywood. It showcased how fragile loyalties could be in narratives and how deception could flesh out seemingly simple [...]
IO Interactive has released their latest video for Hitman: Absolution, showcasing the level “Streets of Hope”. If you remember way back to this year’s E3, I had written about this level in detail and now you all get to enjoy what I did a little over a month ago. Check out the video and let [...]
Coming into E3 2012 there were so many things I wanted to see and do, but how do you decide? How do you narrow your excitement down such a tight and confined corridor? It’s quite difficult actually, but only if that something didn’t fit down your tight and confined corridor. Luckily for Hitman: Absolution I [...]
Square Enix was out in full force at E3 2012, but it was fairly obvious what most people were excited for, and that was Tomb Raider. By now most of us know what the new Tomb Raider game is about, but for those who have been living under a rock for the past year, I’ll [...]