Tag: action
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Battle: Los Angeles
REVIEW: The beleaguered City of Angels faces impending doom yet again as aliens take on Tinseltown, clearly tired of Hollywood showing how easy they are to defeat.
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Mr. & Mrs. Incredible
Vincent Kok (Shaolin Soccer), delivers another satirical farce for the Chinese New Year season. Concerning a couple of retired superheroes in ancient China (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue and Louis Koo), it’s co-written by Kung Fu Hustle scribe Min Hun Fung!
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Season of the Witch
Dominic Sena returns with a tale of swords and witchcraft that is reportedly inspired by Igmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal! Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman star as a pair of fourteenth century knights who discover that not all souls can be saved.
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The evolution of the western: Part 3 – The Last Man Standing
In the final entry in our three-part series on the western, we look take a look at the last twenty years of gunslingers in the US and abroad. From Kevin Costner to Takashi Miike, the western has been elevated to epic proportions – even when it isn’t being a western at all.
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I Am Number Four
The latest grab for a tween franchise swaps the glowing loner from a fanging vampire to an probing alien.
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Review: Unknown
The latest thriller from the Spanish-born American filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan) delivers some solid thrills. Yet are there any unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know? Starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.
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The Next Three Days
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…
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Faster
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…
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Sanctum
REVIEW: If you are having trouble sleeping, try drowning yourself. If that fails, see Sanctum.
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The Green Hornet
In an interview with Total Film several years ago, legendary comic book creator Alan Moore said that “The main reason why comics can’t work as films is largely because everybody who is ultimately in control of the film industry is an accountant”. Those accountants have certainly been counting their receipts over the last few years,…
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