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THRILLER SHAFT (18) 95 mins .00
Not so much revrved as followuig in the family line. Samuel L Jackson is young John Shaft. nephew of Richard Roundtree's bad ass 'tec from the 70s. Stylish as hell and with a cache of cracking one-liners. Shaft retooled for the noughties is a fiery. but caring rozzer who goes outside the law to apprehend a yuppie murderer played in true AmerCian Psycho style by Christian Bale. Knowrng postmodern smirks aside - Roundtree playing ol' Shaft wrth lovelies on both arms - lil' John's adventures are a little flat and predictable and only Jackson's acerbic performance lifts this out of straight to Video hell.
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follow-up to Lock. Stock: And Two Smoking Barre/s. Bang out of order as it 'api’iens. 'cause. alright Snatc/r is about anuver caper gone pear-shaped. wiv a bunch of gee/ers playing a mugs iame over some stolen diamonds. but. all said and done. it's a right larf. Camerawork's bonkers, you can't understand a bleedin’ word Brad Pitt's thieVing pikey says and you'd come up blank if Benecio Del Toro’s kosha stones smuggler whispered in your shell-like. but Alan Ford's gangster Brick Tori and Mike Reid's dodgy Doug the Head make thernselfs understood. And Vinnie Jones? Well, he Just smacks wankers don't he? (Columbia Eff/1.99) (Miles Fielder)
SCI-Fl ANIMATION TITAN A.E. (PG) 92 mins 0..
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Here's an animated antidote to Disney's Singing animals and Pixar's Cute bugs. co- directOrs Don Bluth and Gary Oldman's action- packed space opera. By the year 3928 Earth has been destroyed by an alien race of pure energy beings known as the Drei. The remnants of the human race are scattered across the galaxies. so many refugees. While the Dre] strive for human extinction. a motley crew of adventurers including yOung buck Cale iv0iced by Matt Damoni. mercenary Korso (Bill Pullmani and lithe Akima (Drew Barrymore) — which trio approximates
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THRILLER WHERE THE MONEY IS (15) 85 mins .00
Paui Newman does an excellent jOl) as Henry. a con who manages to fake a stroke in order to get out of prison and find the stash from his last Job. He ends up in an old folks home being looked after by Carol (Linda Fioi‘entinot. a clued up nurse who doesn't fall for his game for one minute. In fact she turns it to her advantage and convinces him to do one last iob. Full action and wise cracks. this no nonsense film takes yeti along on a caper carried out by the new Bonnie and old Clyde. (Warner) (Jane Hamilton)
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U-571 (Entertainment €14.99: €15.99 wideSCreen) Excmng World War II submarine action adventure.
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Davrd Burke is an American who helps run WHITEDOG. an organisation to help ban televrsion and here he uses this excellent personal View slot to tell us why the box is the last thing we need. It all begs the question: should he be appearing on TV to illustrate this fact? 'See this as the warning on a packet of cigarettes.‘ he inSists. Burke does make some excellent points against the arguments made by self-promoting TV execs. In his view. TV does not create community empathy or have the power to relax and educate you. It is on this last point that it is difficult to agree. His native ceiintry may have the copyright on shows made up of equal parts detritus and unsurprising fact but we have a brilliant legacy of documentaries from the Orrin/bus and Arena stables; after all, it was a South Bank Show specral on The Smiths
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KELLY’S HEROES
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Quentin Taiantino's in France iust now shooting his 'men on a mission' World War ll adventure G/orious Bastards. And where do you think he got the idea for this kind of war movie? Ke//y's Heroes. that's where. This 1970 all-star actioner really kicks ass.
Havrng completed his boot—camp training, co— starring wrth Richard Burton in another mission movre Where Eagles Dare. Clint Eastwood here takes the key role as the GI leading his dishonest and dishevelled platoon through France. taking time Out of Winning the war to rob a bank full of German gold bullion. Eastwood stays at his laconic best. while Donald Sutherland shines as the hippie tank commander who gives him a hand With the heist as well as playing classical musrc going into battle and blasting enemy tanks with psychedelic paint bombs.
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