Tag: 20110203

  • The Next Three Days

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    Since pulling off one of the greatest Oscars upsets in recent history, writer, director and producer Paul Haggis has kept a relatively low profile. After his race relations drama Crash controversially trumped Ang Lee’s lyrical Brokeback Mountain for best picture in 2006 (taking out editing and original screenplay awards as well), his cinematic output has…

    The Next Three Days
  • Faster

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    Wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson graduated from a small part in The Mummy Returns to a starring role in series spin-off The Scorpion King and hasn’t looked back. Yet the past few years have seen him follow in the footsteps of Vin Diesel and Arnold Schwarzenegger into the family friendly films, from the updated version of Get Smart to…

    Faster
  • Sanctum

    REVIEW: If you are having trouble sleeping, try drowning yourself. If that fails, see Sanctum.

    Sanctum
  • Tamara Drewe

    The literary works of Thomas Hardy have been adapted many times over the years, most notably as plays, television mini-series and feature films. Although often occupied with the social constraints placed on the lives of  people living within the 19th century class structure, the themes of fate (and fatalism for that matter) inherent in the…

    Tamara Drewe