Everyone’s clearly having a blast on this outrageous HBO show. Antony Starr channels Martin Riggs and Jack Reacher as the former jewel thief who, after being released from prison, makes his way to the corrupt Wild West town of Banshee.
“All I see out there is barbarity,” yells a gendarme at a French soldier. Â Â Â Â
Michael Winterbottom’s jaunty Paul Raymond biopic stars Steve Coogan as the billionaire property baron, strip-club impresario, and girly-mag publisher.
An awkward but interesting mix of epic sci-fi action movie and small-scale, slow-burning indie puzzler, Oblivion stars Tom Cruise as a maintenance man on a devastated and deserted future Earth.
A fair amount of vitriol was thrown at this expensive sci-fi, but, although it’s a little plodding, Oblivion’s not too shoddy.
“It still takes muscle, it still takes nerve,†James McAvoy’s auctioneer Simon maintains about stealing precious art before Vincent Cassel’s mob enter his auction house and nab a Goya, bomping Simon on the head. But the pair are in cahoots, see. Of course they are
Steven Soderbergh signs off his movie-directing career with considerable panache here, with a film that starts out as an expose of big pharma and mental health before morphing into an adroit and surprising Hitchcockian thriller. Rooney Mara is compelling as troubled Emily, who after collecting her husband (Channing Tatum) from prison for insider trading crashes her car into a wall. Emily …
This Docklands-set crime thriller was a huge struggle. It took four attempts to get through it
“God, don’t kill them, let me do it,†intones John P Ryan’s sadistic prison warden in this wildly over-the-top and brilliantly constructed thriller from 1985. Jon Voight is frankly demented as lifer Oscar Manheim who escapes a maximum-security prison with Eric Roberts’s dim Buck.    Â