A slickly made English heist movie set in the currently trendy 1970’s with an unusually thoughtful Jason Statham wangling his way into and out of plenty of trouble with just about everyone in Britain – from the Royal Family to MI5, from the local police to the local underworld. With so many plots and sub-plots […]
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Can one performance make a film? Well in this case - absolutely. Heath Ledger’s Joker is the heart and soul of The Dark Night, and without him it would fall flat, rendered incoherent by an overly clumsy narrative structure and a totally self-conscious thematic sensibility. It’s director Christopher Nolan’s second Batman film, opening a year […]
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