Who would have thought that of 2013’s two competing ‘White House invasion’ movies, the one starring Gerard Butler would trounce Channing Tatum’s at the box office? Well, that’s precisely what happened, with Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen grossing almost $100 million in the U.S. Roland Emmerich’s White House Down‘s only collected $73 million off a […]
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American idiot – Olympus Has Fallen review
August 20, 2013 
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By Richard Haridy August 20, 2013 Let’s be upfront. Olympus Has Fallen is dumb, violent, overlong, jingoistic, racist, predictable, derivative, and whatever other adjectives those with no sense of B-grade fun wish to throw at it. Sure, it is all those things, but it’s also an exceedingly competent action movie that knows exactly what it’s […]
Continue readingFrom man to dragon – Coriolanus review
July 10, 2012 0 Comments
Coriolanus – Starring Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox, and Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Rated MA. Originally published March 6, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Coriolanus arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 11, 2012. But what Ralph Fiennes really wants to do is direct. The Oscar nominated thesp makes his directorial debut with a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, featuring much of the […]
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March 6, 2012 1 Comment
Coriolanus – Starring Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox, and Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. But what Ralph Fiennes really wants to do is direct. The Oscar nominated thesp makes his directorial debut with a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, featuring much of the Bard’s original prose intact. It must […]
Continue readingThe Butler abides – Law Abiding Citizen review
June 1, 2010 0 Comments
Law Abiding Citizen – Starring Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx and Colm Meaney. Directed by F. Gary Gray. Rated MA. Originally published January 28, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. It’s hard not to like a film as ballsy as Law Abiding Citizen; so brazen that it actually revels in its ridiculousness. It’s exactly the kind of film […]
Continue readingWhen good engineers go bad – Law Abiding Citizen review
January 28, 2010 0 Comments
Law Abiding Citizen – Starring Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx and Colm Meaney. Directed by F. Gary Gray. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. It’s hard not to like a film as ballsy as Law Abiding Citizen; so brazen that it actually revels in its ridiculousness. It’s exactly the kind of film the phrase “by-the-numbers” was invented […]
Continue readingInner ugliness – The Ugly Truth DVD review
December 14, 2009 3 Comments
The Ugly Truth – Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler and Cheryl Hines. Directed by Robert Luketic. Rated MA. Originally published August 6, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. For as long as there has been romance, there have been romantic comedies. It all began in the Bible, with a cheeky nude romp starring sensible Adam and his […]
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