Thank You For Smoking Review
Thank You For Smoking Review: Jonathan McCrea Director: Jason Reitman Cert: TBC ‘You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I’m that guy – on crack.’ Based on Christopher Buckley’s novel, Thank You For Smoking is a cutting black comedy narrated by it’s hero – silver-tongued tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart, In […]
United 93 Review (Sunday Business Post)
United 93 Dir: Paul Greengrass Cert: Unavailable Review: Jonathan McCrea ‘Too soon?’ director Paul Greengrass reflects when asked about the timing of United 93, the film that recounts the events that occurred on the last of the hijacked planes on September 11th, 2001. ‘When people say a film like this is too soon, they mean […]
X Men 3 – The Last Stand (Sunday Business Post)
X-Men 3 – The Last Stand Dir: Brett Ratner Cert: 12A Review: Jonathan McCrea Another summer, another comic book movie and another set of daft costumes hit our screens in X3: The Last Stand. This time Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Storm (Halle Berry), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and the rest of the mutants face a threat […]
Mission Impossible 3 Review (Sunday Business Post)
Mission: Impossible 3 Director: JJ Abrams Review: Jonathan McCrea Cert: 12A After losing two directors on what was turning into an unfortunately-named venture, Tom Cruise was forced to take a leap of faith with newcomer JJ Abrams for Mission: Impossible 3. While the creator of TV series Lost and Alias had shown his cinematic qualities […]