Jason Statham and David Ayer team up for a second time for an adaptation of Chuck Dixon’s first novel, Levon’s Trade. Levon Cade (Statham) is a former Royal Marine who works on a construction site in Chicago. He is forced to use his special set of skills again when his boss’ daughter, Jenny Garcia (Arianna Rivas), […]
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The 355 Review
Universal Pictures’ spy-thriller The 355 is the first major cinematic release of 2022. It is also set to be one of the first box-office flops of the year despite its all-star cast. A special program on a hard drive that can hack any network has disappeared after a raid in Colombia. It appears again when a DNI […]
Britflix: Ironclad
Ironclad is a rarity because it’s a British action film. It was one of many historical action films released in the early 2010s to capitalise on the success of 300. The year is 1215. King John (Paul Giamatti) has reneged on Magna Carta and hired an army of Danish pagans. William d’Aubigny (Brian Cox), an ennobled wool […]
Military Wives Review
Within the UK there is a lucrative subgenre of films that appeals to middle-class, middle-England audiences. The film story about the Military Wives choir easily fits in that category. At a military base, the soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan for a six-month tour. Whilst their families at home the wives have to find things to […]