Robert Downey Jr. plays just a metaphorically-superpowered lawyer in ‘The Judge’ trailer

The trailer for the Robert Downey Jr. produced drama The Judge has landed online, heralded by RDJ in a Tweet as “the kind of movie I grew up wanting to make.” He stars as a ruthless defence attorney who must save his estranged father, an idealistic judge, from a murder charge. Twist! David Dobkin, of Wedding Crashers and… Fred Claus fame, […]

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Crime cop – Jack Reacher review

Jack Reacher – Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, and Werner Herzog. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Jack Reacher is trash, but since when is that a bad thing? Christopher McQuarrie‘s adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot follows in the footsteps of those convoluted John Grisham and Dan Brown books that are […]

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Play It Again – THX 1138

Play It Again – THX 1138. Starring Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie, and Donald Pleasence. Directed by George Lucas. Rated PG. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it […]

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Death of the party – Get Low review

Get Low – Starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. Directed by Aaron Schneider. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. T.S. Eliot said the world would end “not with a bang but with a whimper”. That certainly seemed true this past weekend, when evangelist Harold Camping’s prediction of a fire-and-brimstone rapture engulfing the entire universe […]

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The same old song – Crazy Heart review

Crazy Heart – Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Colin Farrell. Directed by Scott Cooper. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. There are few films as modest as Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart. It’s so afraid of seeming over the top and inauthentic that it completely retreats from anything resembling a conflict. Instead of being a fist […]

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