We head back to 2010 for this review of the Shaun Levy directed Date Night. Written by Josh Klausner, the film was also produced by Levy and Tom McNulty. Phil and Claire Foster are a married couple, with two children, and the very definition of suburban living. Phil is a tax accountant and Claire is a real estate agent. They
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Broken City is a thriller from 2013, directed by Allen Hughes and featuring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the lead roles. Wahlberg stars as Billy Taggert a former NYPD detective who lost his job following a shooting of a suspect. The investigation following the shooting sees an intervention by the mayor of the city – Nicholas Hostetler (Crowe) to ensure
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The Gambler is a 2014 film directed by Rupert Wyatt (previously directed Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Escapist), and starring Mark Wahlberg. The film is a remake of a film of the same name, from 1974 which starred James Caan in the lead role. Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, grandson of a wealthy Californian Ed (Geoge
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Pain and Gain is a pointless, charmless, crime-comedy-drama that stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, as two body builders that find themselves into a world of crime as they aggressively pursue a better lives for themselves. Set in Florida, in 1995, and based on what (as the film itself says ‘sadly’) is a true story, the film is directed by
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Amongst the 2017 blockbusters will be the latest in the Transformer’s franchise – Transformers : The Last Knight. Again directed by Michael Bay, this will be the sequel to the Age of Extinction reboot that saw Mark Wahlberg take the ‘human’ lead in the 2014 film from Shia LeBouef in the prior 3. Tonight, Paramount released the first teaser trailer for
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No director symbolises the era of the multiplex blockbuster movie more than Michael Bay. By the way, that’s not a compliment. 2014’s ‘Transformers : Age of Extinction’ sees him directing the 4th Transformers movie, a form of a reboot from the first three in the sense that the story moves away Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel. Instead we find Mark
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The team of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg return from their 2010 comedy hit The Other Guys, with the new offering from director Sean Anders (We’re The Millers, Horrible Bosses 2, That’s My Boy), Daddy’s Home. Ferrell plays Brad Whitaker, an executive on the Panda smooth Jazz radio station, and married stepfather to his wife’s two children Megan and Dylan.
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