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Salt

Salt is the story of Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), a badass CIA operative whose situation gets a little tricky when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russian double agent. Pretty soon she’s hunted all over the city and regularly escaping capture by the skin of her perfect teeth. This film is a lot of fun. It sits somewhere halfway between the Bourne and Die Hard franchises in tone, character and action set-pieces. What results is a film that’s just real enough to make ...  READ MORE »


The Ghost Writer

Maybe it’s the fact that I spent the two hour plus running time of this film in the cinema’s first row and can now only permanently look up that’s affecting my mood, but I just can’t have the same oily critical wank that everyone seems to be enjoying over this film. O, it has its good points. There’s a good and timely plot, thanks largely to the original novel Ghost by Robert Harris. Most of the film is well paced, particularly in the beginning, with ...  READ MORE »


The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The opening of this film is about as cringe-worthy as it comes. After a ridiculously melodramatic, expositional prologue, we meet young Dave (at this stage played by Jake Cherry) who gets separated from his school group through a pretty thin and convenient twist of fate. He stumbles into the work shop of Balthazar (Nicolas Cage) who tells him he’s something called the Prime Merlinian and will do something terribly important and blah blah blah. Some bad stuff happens and Balthazar and Dave are separated for ...  READ MORE »

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