Closed Circuit review: cheating in the War on Terror
Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall are as engaging as ever, and the film raises intriguing issues concerning the “War on Terror”; pity the plot descends into the ridiculous.
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Red 2 review: global positioning
Smart, breezy spy action, with an of-the-moment vibe that takes it post-post-9/11 and into the Wikileaks era of global politics.
Thor: The Dark World trailer: Shakespeare in the park
Warring brothers! Ha. Tony Stark was right.
Hummingbird (aka Redemption) review: pity poor Jason Statham
Some of it is hilariously awful, and some is just plain awful. But Statham’s attempt to be taken seriously as an actor is honest, at least.
what’s the most dangerous thing about the place where you live?
Oklahoma City got walloped again last night by a series huge, deadly tornadoes, just two weeks after an even larger twister devastated its suburb Moore…
porn again? (The Look of Love review)
It’s a puzzlement. How did Michael Winterbottom make a film this tediously conservative?
2013: London’s year to be devastated (Thor: The Dark World trailer)
First it was total anihilation in G.I. Joe: Retaliation; then will come some sort of terrorist bombing in Star Trek Into Darkness; and here we see Greenwich getting torn up by, apparently, an alien ship.
Doctor Who blogging: “The Bells of Saint John”
I think I’ve figured out what’s been bugging me, on a deep-down, grand-scheme level, about Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who…
Trance (review)
Deliciously preposterous, with misdirections and red herrings scattered about like enigmatic confetti…
The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
