An exciting music biopic, with solid storytelling and charismatic young leads, Straight Outta Compton proves surprisingly gripping fare. Whether or not you remember the groundbreaking and controversial hip-hop group N.W...
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Pauline Adamek
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – film review
Action-packed, but mostly risible, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is probably the most disappointing offering of the five-movie spy thriller franchise starring Tom Cruise. It doesn’t help that the US-made movie series...
“Jurassic World” film review
Visually dazzling and heart-stoppingly fun, Jurassic World delivers all the terror and excitement you could ask from an action adventure. Laughter mingles with screams of delight throughout this tautly directed, giddily...
“Aloha” – film review
Sometimes the setting of a movie just screams “location holiday!” (Think Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s junket for A Good Year.) So you can be forgiven for a healthy level of cynicism over Cameron Crowe’s latest...
Hard core, kick-ass action at its finest — “Taken 3” film review
The ‘Taken’ franchise of action dramas, starring a fit and towering Liam Neeson as an imposing ex-CIA / Black Ops hard-man, rivals Die Hard for its taut storylines and mind-blowing smash-’em-up action sequences. In all...