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The Paperboy 2012
It wants to be a Buckowski-esque, grimy, raw, pulpy slice of southern, 60s sweat and sexuality. It succeeds at being that about 60% of the time and the rest of the time it loses it's way and gets a bit too glossy and over the top.
The surprisingly A List cast do a whole bunch of unlikely, unusual, pretty good and, to some people, probably brave and shocking turns in the film and watched without knowledge of the frank way… -
Stolen 2012
Simon West directs this throw away bit of Taken-meets-Danny Ocean-light New Orleans based drivel that with a fun and insane turn from Josh Lucas (in his second film called Stolen), the appearance of MC Gainey, a cool pork pie hat, a hilariously over the top Mark Valley, a dependable but never quite joyous enough Cage and a silly but kinda cool soundtrack becomes a watchable slice of DTV action thriller. Worth a watch at least once or twice. Malin Akerman though gets so little to do it's almost a case for a psychiatrist as to why she even took the role in the first place.
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan 1989
I guess Jason on a crappy Cruise Ship wasn't an attention grabbing enough tag line
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2008
Apparently Jason Statham's worst film but I liked it just fine. Normally I am not a fan of nonsense fantasy and Seige of The Dungeon Name of The King's Tale had as much nonsense and gobbledegook as the best of the fantasy epics out there but honestly I enjoyed it. A lot was to do with the cast, a lot was to do with having no expectations, a lot of it was my mood and honestly I thought it looked…
