• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Mel Gibson is back in the buddy cop role, but to put it lightly, he’s a complete bastard. Working side-by-side with Vince Vaughn, they form cop duo, Brett (Gibson) and Tony (Vaughn), in S. Craig Zahler’s gritty, edgy and dangerous, … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Dragged Across Concrete”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) From Batman to Fatman, Christian Bale is back delivering a heavyweight performance as Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’, a film much more satirical and playful than its trailers may have suggested. Presented in a slightly back and forth non-linear fashion, ‘Vice’ … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Vice”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) From fighting with mutants to fighting off accusations of morality, Hugh Jackman stars as former Democratic presidential candidate, Gary Hart, in ‘The Front Runner’, the thrilling adaptation of ‘All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid’. Opening briefly … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “The Front Runner”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Remember the erotic thrillers of the early 1990s? Well, ‘Welcome Home’ attempts to join that circle, but instead establishes a somewhat tasteless, yet entertaining thriller. The opening titles of ‘Welcome Home’ intercutting with a property rental website, soon presents the … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “Welcome Home”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi (spoiler free) Over thirty years since the release of the original ‘Predator’ movie, Shane Black returns to the franchise with the latest installment and sequel, ‘The Predator’. Lacking an A-List name to establish ‘The Predator’ as a star vehicle, can the new … Continue reading For HCMovieReviews: “The Predator”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Ah, the trope of the eccentric mentor and his young, naive pupil. Billy Zane (posh guy from Titanic) and Laurie Calvert respectively star as Elliot and Zel in exciting less-than-90-minute adventure, Lucid. Zel is a loner, shy and generally weird. He works … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Lucid – SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi To put it lightly, The Nightshifter (original title Morto Não Fala) is really out there – it’s wild. Ticking all the boxes to be both a hipster’s favourite and cult film, The Nightshifter is world cinema/foreign language, has a distinct colour palette, … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Nightshifter – Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Across his 30+ year career, Jean-Claude Van Damme has been the Kickboxer, the Universal Soldier and the Replicant, but now, in his best lead role since JCVD, he is The Bouncer. Opening with a magnificent following shot of Van Damme’s Lukas, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Bouncer – Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi At the age of 88, four-time Oscar winner Clint Eastwood makes his on screen return in crime drama The Mule, inspired by a New York Times article. Replacing the .44 Magnum (“the most powerful handgun in the world…”) with gardening scissors, Eastwood’s … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Mule – Film Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Bouncing between franchise revival films and the horrific Escape Plan 2, Sylvester Stallone stars alongside Stranger Things’ Matthew Modine in Backtrace – more appropriately direct-to-the-rubbish-bin than direct-to-video. Backtrace opens during the car journey home after a robbery or heist of sorts, and … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Backtrace – Film Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Since featuring an out-of-this-world stunt or two in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise and his team have pushed for wilder stunts and wilder action as the franchise grows older. After viewing the latest instalment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, it will … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Film Review”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Larry Cohen, often referred to as “King Cohen”, is the king of what exactly? The King of Blaxploitation? The King of the B-Movie? The King of low-budget? The King of guerrilla filmmaking? King Cohen – opening with a pre-title segment of J.J. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “King Cohen – Film Review”
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