This 2014 spy action thriller sees the latest attempt to reinvigorate the Jack Ryan franchise based on the character written by Tom Clancy over a series of novels. This time, its Chris Pine (most well known for his turn as Captain Kirk in the JJ Abrams rebooted Star Trek films) that takes on the role of Ryan in this Kenneth
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It’s 1986. A passenger jet has been taken hostage by middle eastern terrorists. Who you gonna call? Well of course it’s Chuck Norris and his Delta Force. We’re back to the 80’s action films (see previous review of Remo Williams) and this time its to the patriotic drum banging, chest thumping ‘Delta Force’ directed by Menahem Golan. In this action
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Sicario is a 2014 thriller by director Denis Villeneuve. Emily Blunt plays agent Kate Macer, an FBI agent who early in the film raids a house with her team to find a number of bodies hidden in the wall cavities. As the film unfurls, she volunteers to a joint agency task force which is aimed at getting to the men
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Set in Belfast in 1971, and heavily within the complex troubles of the time, the film ’71’ film debut for french director Yann Demange and also screenplay writer Gregory Burke. The film follows British army private Gary Hook (played by Jack O’Connell) initially in training, and then into his first deployment, into Belfast, Northern Ireland. After his unit loses control
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