Director – Ridley Scott – 2000 – US – 15 – 155m ***** UK Release 12th May 2000. Initiated by screenwriter David Franzoni (Amistad, Steven Spielberg, 1997) at DreamWorks, this picked up definitive cinematic stylist Ridley Scott, who created the seminal futuristic cityscape of Blade Runner (1982). Elsewhere, Scott’s downside is that his visuals notoriously […]
Director – Ridley Scott – 2006 – US – 12A – 118 mins ***1/2 A ruthless, successful Square Mile bond trader travels to Provence to sort out the estate he’s inherited from his late uncle – UK release date 27/10/2006 Back in the 1980s, British TV commercials spawned a number of hugely successful feature film […]
Director – Rowdy Herrington – 1992 – US – Cert. 15 – 101m ** UK theatrical release: June 26th, 1992. PLOT Hitting on hard times, loner Tommy Riley (James Marshall) is living in a low life neighbourhood on Chicago’s South Side. High school days are punctuated by fights during the breaks; at night, Pappy Jack […]