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Furious 7

 “Why did I ever hang out with these people?” Early in Furious 7, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez attend a street race: it seems quaint by the series’ now overblown standards. “What’s the point in racing without explosions and deadly

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Posted in 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Godfather Part III. The Matrix Revolutions. The Dark Knight Rises. Film trilogies are littered with disappointing finales. The Mad Max trilogy was a prime example. The 1979 original was a low-budget muscle car flick: think a scaled-down Fast &

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Posted in 2015

Five Favourite Action Movies of the Nineties

#5 Is there a more quintessential Nineties action movie? Fresh off the boat from Hong Kong, Hard Boiled director John Woo announced his Hollywood presence with this confident début. Keep an eye out for the slow-motion flying doves, Woo’s signature

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Posted in film, nineties

Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise stars in this inventive, time-bending blockbuster… Tom Cruise stars in this inventive, time-bending- … Tom Cruise stars in this- … Tom Cruise- Let’s start over. It’s an understatement to say Tom Cruise has had a somewhat shaky decade.

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Posted in 2014, film

#8: The Raid

  The Raid is the second-best Welsh-directed Indonesian martial arts action movie that I’ve seen this year. All right. It’s the best. But honestly, how many non-Bollywood films ever come out of Asia? And the films that do are usually

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Posted in 2012, film