A hitman thriller that casts Jason Statham alongside Robert De Niro, Killer Elite doesn’t even work as a guilty pleasure: its embarrassing attempts to engage with the politics of the Middle East sit uncomfortably with the testosterone-drenched fight scenes.
John Michael McDonagh’s comedy-thriller stars Brendan Gleeson as a dissolute Irish copper who breaks more laws than he enforces, and Don Cheadle as a slick American agent who’s forced to work with him.
Francis Ford Cuppola is oft quoted as having said that “Cinema, Movies and Magic have always been closely associatedâ€. The magic of movies comes from their ability to make you forget that they are ‘make-believe’. Yet, movies today and those of the pre-digital age have one key difference – realism!
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) 2011 got off to a completely irreverent start with the debut of “Shameless” on the Showtime cable channel, and now the first gin-soaked season is available on DVD as a kind of refresher course…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) These 1974 20th Century Fox “neo noir” releases provide visions of the American underworld that move into deep psychological waters. In John Frankenheimer’s “99 and 44/100% Dead!” the waters…
Wouldn’t you love to sit next to George Clooney at an “Ides of March” screening to hear his stories about making the film, which is up for four Golden Globe Awards tonight?
A DVD of a free benefits gig for those affected by the tragic M5 crash in November has been ruined after headline act The Overtones were blocked from being included on the release.
Here are some things you can be sure of about tonight’s Golden Globes Awards show: Ricky Gervais, the wiseguy Brit emceeing the NBC telecast, will serve up obnoxious commentary certain to offend the Tinseltown elite. (After last year’s telecast, Robert Downey Jr., on the receiving end of some Gervaisian witticisms, characterized the vib
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