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Breaking and Entering
Jude Law is one of those rarities: A British actor who has become a fully fledged Hollywood superstar. So many Brits have been overlooked in the past but Mr. Law has landed firmly on his feet, making one box office smash after another. So it was no surprise when, after the success of The Talented… View Article
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Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is the equivalent to a straight-to-dvd sequel of 8 mile. The film attempts to be outlandish by the overuse of guns and swearing, but if you take those two things away then you are left with the skeleton of a barely average film.
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Die Hard 4.0
Simply put, the first Die Hard is the archetypal action movie. It is a film that defines a genre.
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Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
The film is full of improbabilities that cannot be explained. Getting to London from America in seconds via a helicopter, and the US military acting as the world’s military are just two of the problems.
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Snakes on a Plane
It is incredulous that a film can be billed as a ‘cult movie’ before it has been released. A cult film is measured by the reaction of the audience.
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The Break Up
The Break Up is largely disappointing and if I could sum it up in one word it would me ‘meaningless’, but that might be giving it too much credit.
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X Men 3: The Last Stand
The completion of the trilogy surrounds the invention of a ‘cure’ that will change all mutants to humans and strip them of their superpowers.
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Mission Impossible 3
After a media blitz that has been seemingly endless and which included the first marketing campaign to include placenta-eating revelations, Tom Cruise finally hit the big screen this week with Mission Impossible 3.
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Munich
Munich is a film inspired by real events. The word ‘inspired’ is the key word in that statement. It is not ‘based’ on actual happenings it is ‘inspired’, which leaves this film open to interpretation.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
‘Sex. Murder. Mystery. Welcome to the party!’ says the tagline to Shane Black’s directorial debut, and a party it certainly is.
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ABOUT Dan Higgins
Dan Higgins is an author who has written for the BBC, the New Statesman, the Independent and many other publications.