by David Forrester
13 March 2012
John Hughes is a man much-acknowledged for understanding the plight of 80s teens. He lived in-and-out of the world of the ‘outsider’, ‘geek’ or ‘misfit’ but offered insight into how ‘the bully’ and ‘the jock’ could be equally misunderstood. As far as he was concerned everyone was just a teenager, growing-up and dealing with everything [...]
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by Nigel Floyd
12 March 2012
This competent re-telling of an Icelandic heist movie was directed by Baltazar Kormákur, who both co-produced and played the lead role in Óskar Jónasson’s 2008 original, Reykjavik-Rotterdam. Like his father before him, Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) was a legendary smuggler. Now he runs a home security business with his childhood friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), and [...]
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