“Honor, Integrity, Principles: Everything is Negotiable” – so says the tag line of Casino Jack. It’s a film about the antics of the heinous, acquisitive, delusional Washington Lobbyist Jack Abramoff (the excellent Kevin Spacey), a world-class egomaniac who is by turns fraudulent and preachy, naive and rapacious. Amusingly, he is also a most consistently appalling…
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Without giving too much of the plot away, in Salt, Angelina plays a CIA agent who’s accused of being a Russian sleeper-spy and is forced to go on the run both to clear her name and to save her husband. It’s a serviceable little Philip Noyce thriller, not No Way Out – i.m.h.o one of…
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I’m not, generally speaking, a huge fan of politicians. My encounters with them – real or fictional – always leave me feeling a little bit tainted by all the spin and hypocrisy. State of Play, then, (starring portly Russell Crowe and flobby Ben Affleck) buys neatly into all of my wildly pre-conceived notions of political…
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With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers channel Evelyn Waugh. Gym bunny Chad and grasping Linda discover a cd rom on the floor of the changing rooms at the Hard Bodies Gym in Washington DC. When they realise it may contain highly sensitive CIA information, they proceed to try to flog it to the highest…
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