The novelty of Red was that the gun-totin’, fist-fightin’ action stars, Bruce Willis, John Malcovich and Helen Mirren were all well past 50. This casting lent some senior-citizen empowerment, sophistication and philosophical reflection to the testosterone-fuelled world of the action movie. Red was still pretty silly and implausible but it was clever enough to stand out from the usual action
Read moreGI Joe Retaliation is an utterly preposterous action movie that continues the wonderful artistic trend of turning toys and video games into feature length films; nothing quite says quality cinema like a film who’s opening credit include the word “Hasbro”. The plot here is really just a Bond (or perhaps an Austin Powers) knock-off as a maniacal villain hilariously named
Read moreThe Die Hard films have never been think-pieces but most of them have been fun, exciting and inventive and the original film undeniably changed the action movie landscape. The fifth instalment in the series, A Good Day to Die Hard is almost completely devoid of these redeeming features and is such a ludicrous right-wing fantasy you would be forgiven for
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