Homefront – review
Sly Stallone's screenplay gets Jason Statham back to normal as a retired DEA agent troubled by methheads who gets to wipe the smirk off James Franco's faceThe success of The Expendables has apparently...
View ArticleHomefront – review | Mark Kermode
Jason Statham, Winona Ryder and James Franco can't save this backwoods thriller from mediocrityReading on mobile? Click here to watch the trailerAfter the more adventurous experiments of Hummingbird,...
View ArticleThe Expendables recap: the past-it poets society
Sly Stallone and The Expendables are muscling their way onto Channel 5 from 9pm this Sunday. Expect action, explosions, bad one-liners and even worse verse"We are the shadows and the smoke, we rise. We...
View ArticleTransporter 4 will star Ed Skrein in Jason Statham role
British actor will leave Game of Thrones to play hero Frank Martin in action reboot due to shoot France this summerThe Transporter franchise is set to roll again with Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein...
View ArticleParker review
The prolific crime novelist Donald E Westlake used the pseudonym Richard Stark to write well over 20 novels about the larcenous, lethal but oddly principled professional thief known simply as Parker....
View ArticleThe secret life of Jason Statham
The Hummingbird star laughs like an oversexed goose and happily spills the beans on his private life, whatever the protestations of his publicity peopleI've bought Jason Statham a present. It's an...
View ArticleMan of Steel does battle with Brad Pitt's zombie apocalypse World War Z
Keeping the walking dead off the top spot and dominating the box office for a second week? That looks like a job for Superman Continue reading...
View ArticleJason Statham on Hummingbird: 'Have confidence in uncharted territory' -...
Jason Statham tells Adam Boult about going from hard man to hard-up in his new film, in which he plays a homeless war veteran trying to get his life back together on the streets of London, before he...
View ArticleHummingbird review
This uneasy drama about an ex-soldier forming an illicit relationship with a nun just gets sillier as it goes alongSteven Knight, the screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, makes his...
View ArticleSylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Expendables 3 at Cannes:...
Promoting forthcoming blockbuster The Expendables 3 alongside co-stars including Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone compares 1980s rivalry with the latter to to Ali and...
View ArticleViral Video Chart: One Direction, Luis Suárez and Harrison Ford
Harry Styles and Co sing with Bert, Bruce Springsteen attacks biter and what if Alan Bennett had commentated on World Cup?We start with a treat for One Direction fans as the boys have a close encounter...
View ArticleAnd the Academy invitation to vote on the Oscars goes to ... Jason Statham
Action star amongst substantial influx of younger potential Oscar voters, including Steve Coogan, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Barkhad Abdi and Pharrell WilliamsJason Statham, Lupita Nyong'o and...
View ArticleThe Expendables 3 first look review a blundering jackhammer of a film
The third instalment of Sylvester Stallones over-the-hill-mercenaries franchise gives us more of the same with added Mel GibsonSylvester Stallone on Expendables 3: When your ass falls off its time to...
View ArticleThe Expendables 3 review Sly Stallone returns in an ageing rampage
The Expendables cast has expanded to include more youngsters, and while Sly is under-par he still looks nimble compared to the rest of the grizzled gang Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas on The...
View ArticleWhy has Kelly Brook got away with punching two men? | Glen Poole
Jason Statham and Danny Cipriani were assaulted but theres no room for male victims in the discourse we have created around gender and violenceKelly Brook is no ordinary woman. Men have voted her the...
View ArticleFast and Furious 7: watch Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in the trailer for the...
Fast & Furious 7 aka Furious 7 is the last of the franchise to feature star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash while the film was in production. In this installment O'Conner (Walker), Toretto...
View ArticleThe 88 movies we're most excited about in 2015
Think 2014 was a good year for film? Think again. This year is shaping up to be one of the classics. Here’s what’s on our radar. (Why 88? Here’s why)• What to watch this spring in the UK• Nine key...
View ArticleWild Card review – Jason Statham falls foul of the mob
Disappointingly, William Goldman’s second big-screen pass at his novel Heat is neither a caper nor an action filmThis should have confirmed Jason Statham’s upward career mobility: it’s fabled...
View ArticleWild Card review – Jason Statham fights like a dancer
This faithful retread of the Burt Reynolds vehicle Heat, about a compulsive gambler, plays its hand with enjoyable off-kilter bravadoIn the sorely underrated Hummingbird, oil-wrestling action man Jason...
View ArticleFast and Furious 7 review: Paul Walker's final film is fitting tribute
The gang is back behind the wheel for this latest fuming blockbuster, which cruises along nimbly enough before putting the exhaust in exhaustionThe seventh instalment in any franchise is rarely the...
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