thriller
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ZERO DARK THIRTY
This is one of these stories in which we know the beginning and the end, but the decade that passes in between which sees ‘history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man’ is still a helluva shocker. The opening scene of the movie is a totally black screen with excepts of the last telephone…
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SKYFALL
Like the past few Bond movies some of the very best action is in the extended and rather outrageous ‘chase’ scene that precedes the opening credits. This one is set in the bazaars and markets of Turkey before becoming a fight to the death atop a speeding express train. and is the result of some…
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THE GIRL WHO KICKED
Lizbeth Salander our tough girl heroine fights for her very life with a bullet lodged in her brain, and if she does survive the Police are about to charge her with the attempted murder of her father after she took an axe to his head. And that’s just in the first few minutes of this,…
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EASY MONEY
Although I no longer watch any TV programs at all, even I know that ‘The Killing’ has been a hit series on both sides of the Atlantic. Although naturally the US were not content with Danish original so they shot an American version. Into this they cast Joel Kinnaman as a sullen scruffy Detective, and…
