Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Dennis Gansel Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Sam Hazeldine, Tommy Lee Jones, Toby Eddington, Michelle Yeoh, Femi Elufowuju jr. 2016 may well go down as the year of the insipid remake and the unnecessary and pointless sequel that no-one particularly wanted or needed. And now we have another one, with this underwhelming sequel to Jason Statham's fairly forgettable 2011 remake of the 1972 action thriller starring Charles Bronson as a hitman who specialised in making his kills look like accidents. Statham (from the Transporter Continue reading
CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joe Johnson Stars: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Stanley Tucci,Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Dominic Cooper . This superb comic book adaptation completes the jigsaw for Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster Avengers movie, which will feature Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1941 Captain America is one of the original heroes from the Marvel stable, and has been played previously by Dick Purcell in 1944, Arthur Pierce in a 1966 tv series, Reb Brown, and Matt Continue reading
THE COMPANY MEN
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Wells Stars: Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Craig T Nelson, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosemary De Witt, Maria Bello. The recent documentary Inside Job dealt with the global financial crisis, and it named and shamed those people believed responsible, even though none of them have yet been prosecuted for fraud. The new drama The Company Men explores the human cost of the economic meltdown, and, like Wall Street before it, the film offers a scathing criticism of the corporate culture of greed. Modern American business has Continue reading
