It’s understandable that, after charting the lives of gangsters and child prostitutes in his outstanding debut, London To Brighton, Paul Andrew Williams might want a break from moody grit. Few would have guessed that his next project would be a slapstick horror featuring Jennifer Ellison and a maniac with an axe.
In fact, Williams wrote The […]
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A police drama starring Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Whalberg, “The Corruptor” stars Hong Kong action film legend Yun-Fat as Nick Chen, a tough, streetwise cop in Chinatown. Danny(Whalberg) comes into the precinct and soon, the two of them become uneasy partners.
Soon, the two find themselves going underground into the criminal element, uncovering various forms of […]
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The reason Tim Burton is an always-in-work A-list director, while the comparably talented Terry Gilliam struggles to get compromised films made, is that he has an uncanny knack of adapting famous material by other people — whether the Batman comics, a Roald Dahl children’s book or ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ — into films that […]
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There’s an apocryphal tale from the set of John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven concerning Steve McQueen consistently upstaging Yul Brynner until the bald-pated thespian, fresh off his Oscar for The King and I, threatened to take off his hat during McQueen’s scenes. An amusing anecdote about Hollywood egos and the urge to steal the limelight, […]
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The end of the world is a serious business. Luckily, in The Core it’s a damned entertaining one, too.
Wasting no time in establishing its premise - in an ominous opening sequence, 32 pacemaker-wearers drop dead simultaneously - the film rockets forward like a shark. In no time at all, our plucky protagonists are introduced and […]
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This first feature from director/ co-writer Wayne Kramer would make a great double-bill partner for Spanish hit, Intacto. That dealt with good luck as a supernatural power, revealing how smiling fortune could also be a curse; this mirror image shows that a lifelong losing streak can be a career щ but a turn for […]
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