Tag: Guy Pearce

Iron Man 3 ****

What happened next to billionaire Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, after facing an alien wormhole over Manhattan in last summer’s hit The Avengers? Writer-director Shane Black (of Lethal Weapon fame) with screenwriter Drew Pearce co-pens the answer in the latest of the Iron Man franchise, a sequel to The Avengers, showing Stark as more vulnerable …

Justice **

No stranger to staging well-paced crime thrillers, like The Bank Job, The Recruit and No Way Out, director Roger Donaldson is about as qualified as any to bring this gritty story of crime and revenge to the screen – all set in one of the most exciting cities in the US, New Orleans. But although …

LFF: The King’s Speech – 5*

At any other time in recent years, a film about the Royal Family would only prick the interest of some at the UK box office. But with two royal weddings on the cards this year, there seems to be renewed domestic interest in our famous British family. Tom Hooper’s film, The King’s Speech, could not …