When you pair up the names Charles Bronson and Michael Winner, your brain should instantly drift towards conflicting memories – not unlike an unsettling ‘Nam
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The Great Escape (1963) – Review
You can hear it right now, can’t you? The very second you read that title, I’m willing to bet folding money that Elmer Bernstein’s transcendent
Death Wish V: The Face Of Death (1994) – Review
The year is 1994 and action cinema has exploded. James Cameron, let loose with the biggest budget ever at the time has delivered the spy/action/comedy,
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) – Review
After a first instalment that raised some pertinent questions about the law and justice (albeit in a very exploitative way) and a third instalment that
Death Wish 3 (1985) – Review
There always seems to be that telling moment in any long running franchise where it morphs into something so far removed from its original concept,
Death Wish II (1982) – Review
There’s not many genres I have trouble stomaching. Slashers? No problem. Italian cannibal movies? Sure, why not? Torture porn? A cakewalk. However, if there’s something
Death Wish (1974) – Review
It’s strange how the progression of a franchise can colour your perception of the original movie. Take Michael Winner’s Death Wish for example; a 1970s
The Magnificent Seven (1960) – Review
Expertly panel beating the plot of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai into a shape that could comfortably sustain cowpokes instead of sword swingers, The Magnificent Seven
The Dirty Dozen (1967) – Review
You know what most of those war time movies featuring men on a desperate mission have in common – apart from usually having big Hollywood
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