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It’s 2013 and a flight from Jamaica to New York City becomes the latest plane to suffer from overbooking. Some passengers are asked whether they will give up their seats and though it means some families may travel on separate services, Montego Air manages to sort their remaining passengers...
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Sam Peckinpah personified the word ‘infamous’. He was a human being with a reputation for extremes, but also a man with a unique, uncompromising directorial vision which bought him some leeway, even with his detractors. In a career with many examples of deliberately pushing the envelope – Straw Dogs (1971),...
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David Budd (Richard Madden) is on the train back to London, ready to deliver his children back to his estranged wife when he becomes aware of suspicious activity in the carriage. As a decorated soldier and trained as a protection officer he’s learned to spot the signs and he...
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There’s been a long wait when it comes to Marvel giving audiences a female-led superhero film. There’s been plenty of supporting talent and earlier this year Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp shared the banner with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man but it will be March 2019 before a singular sensation materialises. It comes,...
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The #metoo movement has been an important part of the last year or so, exposing abuses of power particularly in the entertainment industry (though politics and religious institutions are close behind). Behaviour and attitudes – which at best belong in an era long past and at worst never belonged...
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Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), an American analyst working for MI5 in London, often finds herself barely on the periphery of the genuine international intrigue that supposedly goes with the job. She’s an excellent researcher, intuitive and smart… though not as focused as she’d need to be to achieve any...
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Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
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Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) once served on the frontline of the war on terror but the soldier-turned-CIA analyst knows that there’s as much value in tracing money transactions as there is in sending drones into combat – and he’s sure that the financial trail he’s been following indicates not...
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Watch any big blockbuster – or, for that matter, almost any production that involves any scene that could be potentially dangerous if not managed correctly – and it’s hard not to marvel at the various people who contribute to making things look that good. Despite the continued lack of...
It’s 2013 and a flight from Jamaica to New York City becomes the latest plane to suffer from overbooking. Some passengers are asked whether they will give up their seats and though it means some families may travel on separate services, Montego Air manages to sort their remaining passengers...
Sam Peckinpah personified the word ‘infamous’. He was a human being with a reputation for extremes, but also a man with a unique, uncompromising directorial vision which bought him some leeway, even with his detractors. In a career with many examples of deliberately pushing the envelope – Straw Dogs (1971),...
David Budd (Richard Madden) is on the train back to London, ready to deliver his children back to his estranged wife when he becomes aware of suspicious activity in the carriage. As a decorated soldier and trained as a protection officer he’s learned to spot the signs and he...
There’s been a long wait when it comes to Marvel giving audiences a female-led superhero film. There’s been plenty of supporting talent and earlier this year Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp shared the banner with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man but it will be March 2019 before a singular sensation materialises. It comes,...
The #metoo movement has been an important part of the last year or so, exposing abuses of power particularly in the entertainment industry (though politics and religious institutions are close behind). Behaviour and attitudes – which at best belong in an era long past and at worst never belonged...
Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), an American analyst working for MI5 in London, often finds herself barely on the periphery of the genuine international intrigue that supposedly goes with the job. She’s an excellent researcher, intuitive and smart… though not as focused as she’d need to be to achieve any...
Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) once served on the frontline of the war on terror but the soldier-turned-CIA analyst knows that there’s as much value in tracing money transactions as there is in sending drones into combat – and he’s sure that the financial trail he’s been following indicates not...
Watch any big blockbuster – or, for that matter, almost any production that involves any scene that could be potentially dangerous if not managed correctly – and it’s hard not to marvel at the various people who contribute to making things look that good. Despite the continued lack of...
