When will your loop be closed? Swift shot: A film that defies expectation. If you've seen one preview for Looper, you know what it is purportedly about, but that's just the cordite on the blunderbuss - while it has a strong science-fiction platform, the story is what I was most drawn to. Ultimately it is a story about throw-away people and what the cycles of neglect … [Read more...] about Looper
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Lawless
Directed by: John Hillcoat (The Road) The Cast: Shia LaBeouf (Transformer Films), Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises), Jason Clarke (Texas Killing Fields), Guy Pearce (Prometheus), Jessica Chastain (Texas Killing Fields), Mia Wasikowska (Albert Nobbs), Dane DeHaan (Chronicle), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises) This much anticipated film arrives about as … [Read more...] about Lawless
Premium Rush
We get paid to ride, what could be better than that? Swift shot: What do Brian Trenchard-Smith and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have in common, besides hyphenated names? They were both a part of stand-out cycling flicks that I rather enjoyed. BT-S directed the cult classic, BMX Bandits, starring a very young Nicole Kidman in 1983, and while I enjoyed all the cool bicycle … [Read more...] about Premium Rush
Get the Gringo
‘Mad Mel’ is back! The H-Bomb: A nameless career criminal (Mel Gibson) known only as the Driver (sounds oddly familiar) wrecks his getaway car on the Mexican side of the border and is collared by the local authorities. Since the policia in good old Mexico are so well known for being upright and honest, they steal Mel’s loot, the sum of which is around four million, and … [Read more...] about Get the Gringo
The Bourne Legacy
Bourne . . . without Bourne. The H-Bomb: Due to the disastrous media fallout of Operation Treadstone, caused by the amnesia-stricken rogue agent Jason Bourne, the back room Government power players, led by the shady Eric Byer (Edward Norton), are trying, in a panic, to pull the plug on another “Black Op” program, Operation Outcome . . . a program so Top Secret even the … [Read more...] about The Bourne Legacy