Reviews in a nutshell
Quenches the bloodlust and action fever in us. It’s a war game for the best impact or IMAX screen out there, reeking of machismo and entrails, shockingly stereotypical and blatantly racist. To expect otherwise in an ‘us and them’ Bay battle would be foolish.
Writer-director Peter Landesman’s Parkland gives another relatively new angle on tragic events following the death of US President John F Kennedy on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, Texas, offering the hospital portrayal at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. It’s a solid piece of drama set to provoke the same disbelief from those who remember on the day …
A lot is being uttered about The Lone Ranger, a Disney film that reunites Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp, in what has got to be the most expensive ‘western’ in recent years (£165million to be precise). But although battered by American critics and arriving on these shores this week …
