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Podcast – Episode 16: Australian Director Phillip Noyce Talks About His Thriller THE DESPERATE HOUR

Over the last five decades, Australian director Phillip Noyce has shown that he really knows how to handle the thriller genre. Noyce first captured international attention with the acclaimed 1989 film Dead Calm. Starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and [...]

February 20, 2022

Notebook Reviews: GONE IN 60 SECONDS

Domenic Sena – 2000. Gone In 60 Seconds is a hugely enjoyable slice of mainstream entertainment from the mighty Jerry Bruckheimer. This popcorn thriller is expertly shot by director Dominic Sena – the film has a beautiful colour palette [...]

October 10, 2021

Review: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD Starring Angelina Jolie Is Another Great Thriller From Taylor Sheridan

Everything about Taylor Sheridan‘s Those Who Wish Me Dead feels like it was made in 1998 and they somehow forgot to release until 2021. I mean that as a compliment, I really do. Sheridan’s film is one of the most well executed big [...]

September 2, 2021

Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies – But It’s Really Celebrating The Death Of Cinema

This trailer montage is titled Marvel Studios Celebrates The Movies – but it’s just promoting the studios upcoming slate which includes the long delayed Black Widow, Chloe Zhao’s Eternals and Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings [...]

May 4, 2021

Notebook Reviews: THE BONE COLLECTOR

Phillip Noyce – 1999 The Bone Collector is an enjoyable, if routine serial killer thriller starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The always reliable Philip Noyce‘s direction is slick and solid (and very 1980s) and he [...]

January 8, 2021

Notebook Reviews: PUSHING TIN

Mike Newell – 1999 The ever-reliable John Cusack stars in this witty black comedy from director Mike Newell. Pushing Tin features some great performance and it has some truly hilarious moments. Billy Bob Thornton is good as the psycho air [...]

October 8, 2020

TOMB RAIDER: First Look At Alicia Vikander As Lara Croft

I guess it must be time for a Tomb Raider reboot. Nobody really needed the Angelina Jolie movies, so I guess nobody wants this new version with Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander. It’s a prequel too – so that makes it even more exciting. [...]

March 27, 2017

Brad Pitt Romances Marion Cotillard In The Trailer For WWII Thriller ALLIED

Things might be a tabled tornado around the demise of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s marriage, but movie marketing never stops – so here’s a new TV spot for Allied, Pitt’s WWII thriller from Robert Zebecks. Marion Cotillard [...]

September 22, 2016

New Trailer For Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Drama BY THE SEA

By The Sea is a mood piece. The Angelina Jolie (Pitt) directed pic looks like a good ‘70s set Euro-drama and I imagine that Jolie and Brad Pitt deliver on a performance level. This won’t be for the Mr And Mrs Smith Crowd. The Pitts are using [...]

October 31, 2015

Quietly Impressive Trailer For Angelina Jolie’s BY THE SEA With Brad Pitt

By The Sea certainly isn’t for the Mr And Mrs Smith Crowd. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star as a husband and wife going through marital problems in a French coastal village during the 1970s. Jolie is becoming something of an auteur, having [...]

August 8, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Angelina Jolie Directs Jack O’Connell In The Impressive UNBROKEN

I have to hand it to Angelina Jolie for what she has done with Unbroken. It’s a damn fine WWII that’s handsomely produced and well acted. Sure, it’s a tad overlong and slightly predictable but it holds together well and hits all the right [...]

April 25, 2015

Sony: Hacking, Leaks, Jolie, Fincher, SPIDER-MAN, SPECTRE, THE INTERVIEW And North Korea

The Sony hacking is unprecedented. No Hollywood studio (or large corporation for that matter) has ever been exposed in such a way. Private emails, film plans and sensitive personal information have all been leaked. It has become a feeding frenzy for [...]

December 13, 2014

Watch The UNBROKEN Trailer And Decide If Angelina Jolie Will Win An Oscar For Directing

Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken features a true life story about battling the odds and a WWII setting – it might as well start its Academy Awards campaign right now. Early buzz has been good – but this looks like the type of awards bait [...]

October 16, 2014

Blu-Ray Review: Is MALEFICENT A Jolie Good Retelling Of Sleeping Beauty?

Disney risked a lot with Maleficent, a ‘reimagining’ of their iconic Sleeping Beauty that has been updated with an ironic twist – that maybe the evil Maleficent is’t as bad as we’ve been led to believe. The studio off-set the risk [...]

October 12, 2014

Scarlett Johansson’s LUCY Tops The US Box Office; UK Poster

Scarlett Johansson starrer Lucy smashed all sorts of expectations at the box office, grossing a mighty $43.8 million last weekend – meaning that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Hercules had to settle for second place with just $29.8 million. The [...]

July 29, 2014

1999: A Movie Year In Review (Part Two)

Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema. Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released [...]

May 15, 2012

Review: Angelina Jolie And James McAvoy In WANTED

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Wanted opens with Matrix-esque gun battle, complete with a determined man in a dark suit leaping from one building to another, before launching into a bullet fuelled fight. The film then cuts to yet [...]

April 6, 2012