Free Fire (2016)
The premise of Free Fire is high concept, so much so that some people will immediately like the film just for that concept alone, regardless of whether it actually makes for a compelling way to tell...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 22, 2017 · Last modified August 7, 2018
The premise of Free Fire is high concept, so much so that some people will immediately like the film just for that concept alone, regardless of whether it actually makes for a compelling way to tell...
2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 16, 2015 · Last modified December 5, 2019
At its heart, ’71 is a standard caught-behind-enemy-lines story of someone trying desperately to make it back home alive, yet encountering trouble at seemingly every turn. The sparsely worded script by Gregory Burke ups the...
Based on the 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto tells the strange odyssey of Irish transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy), abandoned as a baby to an a life of foster care by his mother,...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 13, 1998 · Last modified February 7, 2019
CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ford, Presumed Innocent) is back, this time on vacation in England when he stops an assassination attempt on a member of the Royal Family by a band of Irish terrorists. In the...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 3, 1997 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Based more or less on the book and film The Day of the Jackal, this film stars Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Beavis and Butthead Do America) as the international terrorist know as the Jackal, who...
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