Tag: Angelina Jolie

Film review – UNBROKEN, from ‘Built For Speed’

Unbroken is Angelina Jolie‘s second film as director following 2011’s In the Land of Blood and Honey.  A World War Two drama, Unbroken explores important topics in an earnest manner and with impressive film-making technique but doesn’t amount to an entirely satisfying film.  Unbroken tells the gruelling story of American Private Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) a delinquent kid turned star

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Film review: MALEFICENT, from Built For Speed

So many mediocre cgi-drenched fairy tales, mythical adventures and superhero films have filled our cinema screens lately that audiences would be forgiven for feeling a bit jaded and approaching the Snow White re-imagining, Maleficent with low expectations.  This film is, however, one of the cinematic surprises of the year.  Exciting, funny, visually captivating and even emotionally involving Maleficent more than

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