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They don’t make them like this anymore. Frank Capra’s acclaimed comedy/drama starring James Stewart as Jefferson Smith, a simple scout leader, but thoroughbred idealist, who finds himself in the seat of a U.S. Senator, only […]
One of the first things to bear in mind about Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall is that, unlike the original 1990 Schwarzenegger film, it is not a fresh adaptation of Phillip K Dick’s short […]
The buddy-cop genre gets a reboot, with the ferocious duo of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña. Set in the wearily familiar territory of South-Central L.A., End of Watch is a police-camera-action style movie, following the […]
The novel from which a film is adapted can often hang heavy around its neck; it is a millstone of expectations that varies depending on the weightiness of the tomes’ story, the number of readers […]
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