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REVIEW: The Expendables 3 4K UHD Blu-Ray
I made the jump to 4K this month, that rare move you make every once in a while. I remember the first DVD I watched...
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REVIEW: Operation Chromite (2016)
Well gents, here is another South Korean action entry, that, while not quite reaching the heights set by Oldboy and I Saw the Devil, is...
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REVIEW: Amerigeddon (2016)
Half of the internet doesn’t know this movie exists, the other half is laughing at it. With its silly title ‘Amerigeddon’ and 3.7 rating on...
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REVIEW: The Parallax View (1974)
‘I’ve been called too independent for my own good’ *spoilers below* Warren Beatty gets himself enmeshed in corporate conspiracies and political assassinations in this crafty...
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REVIEW: Operation Avalanche (2016)
Cynicism is the order of the day in today’s geopolitical world. From both angles, the two presidential candidates running in the 2016 United States election...
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REVIEW: Green Room (2016) Blu-Ray
I gotta admit, if Picard (he shall be called nothing else but Picard on this site) is in something, I’m probably going to watch it....
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REVIEW: Merantau (2009)
Before Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais exploded onto the global action film scene with The Raid and The Raid 2, they earned their stripes debuting...
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REVIEW: The Hunted (1995)
SPOILERS ‘I don’t fight for honor. I fight to win’ The Hunted is an intriguing and action-packed gem from the mid-nineties. It features engaging performances...
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REVIEW: Point Blank (1967)
‘I want my money. I want my 93 grand’ Lee Marvin is vengeful and hyper-focused professional criminal Walker in this smartly directed crime drama from...
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REVIEW: Funeral In Berlin (1966)
“I’m not killing anybody in cold blood” Michael Caine’s second outing as everyman spy Harry Palmer is a twisty thriller with plenty of double-crosses and...
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REVIEW: The Ipcress File (1965)
The Ipcress File deglamorizes the spy business. Director Sidney J. Furie emphasizes its banality, mundaneness and structured bureaucratic nature. Instead of fast cars, exotic locations and beautiful...
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REVIEW: The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Harry Palmer versus 90’s James Bond, or so it seems in this tense and suspenseful 1987 Cold War thriller from bestselling espionage author, Frederick Forsyth...
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REVIEW: 13 Hours The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi Blu-Ray
The name Michael Bay has become synonymous with vacuous garbage. Reading through the reaction to the recent Call of Duty trailer, people were climbing over...
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REVIEW: The Finest Hours (2016) Blu-Ray
I have a lot of time for disaster movies, even if some are too ready to scorn the genre. It must be the fact that...
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Review: Monkey King 2
Director: Cheang Pou Soi Starring: Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, Feng Shaofeng Here we have the sequel to The Monkey King, released back in 2014. Whilst...
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REVIEW: The Trust (2016)
I think we can all agree that Nicolas Cage has a certain gravitas, the man is almost an attraction in and of himself. One thing...
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REVIEW: The Falcon And The Snowman (1985)
Recently in ‘The Americans’, a Cold War series set in the 1980s, after what I was feeling was pending stagnation, the series picked up somewhat....
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REVIEW: The Pacific (2010)
I never really got into this series the first time around. Couldn’t put my finger on why, aside from entire episodes devoted to tedious, washy,...
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REVIEW: The Survivalist (2016)
I wondered while watching the film, with its foreboding isolation and sense of doom why The Walking Dead could not be similar. Of course, it’s...
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REVIEW: Metro (1997) Is Underrated
Here is a movie that was shit on when it came out, apparently from all corners. Time has not been kind to it either, like...
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REVIEW: Standoff (2016)
Since Voltage Pictures started producing movies in 2008, they produced only two watchable movies. The first was their debut movie in The Hurt Locker and...
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The Man In The High Castle (2015) Season 1 Review
Maybe I’m behind the times but when I heard they were doing a ‘web series’ about an alternate history version of the outcome of WW2,...
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Black Mass (2015) Review
You can never really get enough gangster movies and it was always going to be interesting when Johnny Depp ditched that silly pirate crap and...
