Tag: Kurt Russell

Film review: DEEPWATER HORIZON, from ‘Built For Speed’

Deepwater Horizon is an old fashioned disaster movie and while occasionally cornball, it’s a pretty effective one. The film dramatises actual events that occurred in 2010 when an oil exploration rig named Deepwater Horizon experienced a massive explosion and fire that resulted in the deaths of 11 men. At the centre of the drama are chief electronics officer Mike Williams

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Film review: THE HATEFUL EIGHT, from ‘Built For Speed’

Since the superb Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino’s films haven’t been entirely convincing. Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained all had inventive, exciting and funny moments but the storylines were an unsatisfying jumble of ideas tainted by questionable morality. Tarantino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, is an improvement but still suffers some of the same problems; there’s a number of

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