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Welcome to the Punch : Stylish, Gritty, Dumb as a Bag of Hammers

Welcome to the Punch : Stylish, Gritty, Dumb as a Bag of Hammers

                            New Brit thriller Welcome to the Punch is stylish, gritty, and dumb as a bag of…

Best Movie Villain Hair of 2012

Best Movie Villain Hair of 2012

In some of the year’s best performances by a stack of dead cells, the sheer bastardry of a character was perfectly matched by the glory of their tresses. It’s a…

Seven Psychopaths – All fur coat, no knickers

Seven Psychopaths – All fur coat, no knickers

Seven Psychopaths really should be more fun that it is. Writer/Director Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to his excellent In Bruges is all fur coat, no knickers. Despite having an excellent cast…

Review : Two Little Boys

Review : Two Little Boys

Two Little Boys brings a couple of New Zealand’s most abundant native resources to the big screen: beautiful scenery and idiot bogans. Within the first ten minutes a dead tourist bleeds…

Maybe She’s Bourne With It: How the Bourne Movies Put the HBIC

Maybe She’s Bourne With It: How the Bourne Movies Put the HBIC

Action movies are notoriously bad at producing decent roles for women, but for over ten years the Bourne thrillers have been responsible for some of the genre’s best female characters.…

Review : Lawless

Review : Lawless

Few groups get treated as badly by the movies as the country folk of the US South. This slander reached a peak with Deliverance, and its indelible linking of banjo…