The first time I came across Paddy Considine was in Shane Meadows’ fantastic Brit-flick, Dead Man’s Shoes, where he plays a soldier who has returned home to take revenge on the local thugs for what they did to his mentally ill brother. I was blown away by his performance. Well this week I had a… [Read more…]
April 19, 2012
I’m a big fan of animated movies. The reason being that i think if an animated movie is done right it can hold a powerful and moving message, more-so than many live-action movies succeed in doing. But they are also, for the most part, a heck of a lot of fun to watch. Some of… [Read more…]
March 28, 2012
Not since Shane Black gave us Lethal Weapon has there been a comedy, thriller, action, buddy cop movie that I’ve enjoyed so much. Robert Downey Jr plays Harry Lockhart, a petty thief who inadvertently finds himself being cast in an acting role and is carted off to shadow Val Kilmer’s cop, ‘Gay Perry’. Soon Harry… [Read more…]
March 23, 2012
Let me start by stating what director Marc Forster [Monster’s Ball, The Kite Runner] gives us with Machine Gun Preacher. Don’t let the title mislead you into thinking this is an exploitation movie of the Tarantino Grindhouse mould or the Rodriguez beast of a movie that is Machete. What we have here in fact is… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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