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The Taking of Pelham 123 film review: impetuously rendered hokey heist
Director Tony Scott’s high-strung heist movie The Taking of Pelham 123 has a bunch of moments in which characters talk up the New York subway as if they’re in some kind of subtle advertisement for...
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Unstoppable movie review: rock ‘n’ roll disastertainment
The last time audiences were taken for a ride by hyperactive action auteur Tony Scott they didn’t, in a certain sense, get very far. Scott plonked audiences on board a train that wouldn’t start in his...
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Act of Valour movie review: throbbing modern warfare
The latest gung-ho Hollywood war movie to disembark on Australian shores is predictably chocked to the gills with guns, explosions, beefcake soldiers and petrified looking foreigners. But Act of...
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No half measures: vale action director Tony Scott
Hollywood has been hit with a grim bolt from the blue, with news today that veteran action director Tony Scott, brother of Ridley, has reportedly committed suicide. He was 68. Scott’s last picture was...
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Vale James Gandolfini: the TV giant who gave us big cinema in small parts
“What kind of a man are you?” James Gandolfini half asked, half wept, his hot eyes bouncing off Billy Bob Thornton’s imperturbable face in the Coen Brothers’ black and white existential drama The Man...
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