Tag: Ray Winstone

Film review: THE GUNMAN, from ‘Built For Speed’

Despite the fact that The Gunman is set amid the tragic turmoil of the war in the Congo and the fact that it stars and was co-written by noted Hollywood activist Sean Penn, this film is not an exceptionally political film. What appears in the first few minutes to be a Syriana-style exploration of third world political corruption and the

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Film review: THE SWEENEY, from Built For Speed

Adapting a popular TV show to the big screen is always a tricky business. How do you make that transition to a different medium and still maintain the show’s magic?  Do you just reproduce the show in a bigger more spectacular form, do you opt for the Brady Bunch style affectionate pastiche or do you try to reinvent it like

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