Starring: Hillary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Plot: Chick wants to box. Trainer only trains dudes. Chick persists. Trainer relents.
But is it any good?
Blimey, but this was a depressing film. Actually, I can see it two ways: it has a nice message about the power of friendship and overcoming adversity to achieve your […]
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Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Chen Chang, Ziyi Zhang
Directed by: Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Hulk)
Plot: It’s 19th century China. Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are lead to the stubborn, beautiful, skilled daughter of a nobleman, who is at a crossroads in her life. […]
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Starring: William H Macy, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand, Peter Stormare
Directed by: Joel and Ethan Cohen (Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, O Brother! Where Art Thou?)
Plot: An inept second-hand car salesman arranges to have his wife kidnapped by two bungling thugs for the ransom money he think it’ll generate. But he didn’t count on no-nonsense pregnant […]
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Imelda Staunton
Directed by: David Yates
What’s it about? Young Wizard Harry Potter is now in his fifth year at Hogwarts. After discovering in the previous film/book that dark lord Voldemort is back, Harry now finds himself branded a liar by the Ministry of Magic and treated with suspicion by […]
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Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Darryl Hannah
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Plot: Part two of the Kill Bill series, where The Bride continues her revenge against her former Viper Squad colleagues who tried to murder her. She’s written her hit-list and is carefully working her way through it, with leader Bill saved for the end.
But is […]
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Darryl Hannah
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Plot: The pregnant Bride is attacked and left for dead by her former leader/lover Bill and his gang of assassins. Waking from a coma four years later, she vows revenge and draws up a hit list.
But is it any good?
It was a long wait […]
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Starring: Uh, animated characters. But some of the voices are Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter and Samuel L Jackson
Directed by: Brad Bird
Plot: A family of superheroes are forced into hiding in suburbia (they started getting sued by people), then find their powers are needed once again to save the world.
But is it any good?
The […]
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Starring: Toshiro Mifune
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
Plot: A drifting Samurai warrior arrives in a new town in 1860 and pits the two criminal gangs against each other, moving from one side to the other depending on who’s offering the best sake.
But is it any good?
Put it this way: Yojimbo was later remade as […]
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Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah
Directed by: Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down…)
Plot: In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create Replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Rick Deckard is […]
