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In Team Downey’s first major project, Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) heads to his small home town in Indiana for his mother’s funeral. Like most people from tiny midwestern towns in America, he longs to escape, and family drama spurs him on. His father, the town’s judge, is accused...

Illmatic (1994) is an album that needs no introduction for anyone even mildly acquainted with the world of hip hop. The debut LP from New York native Nasir “Nas” Jones, the record is a raw account of life in Queens, told through a perfect blend of poetic lyrics and experimental beats....

Exactly what it says on the tin; Fury delivers an honest but ugly snapshot of hostile Germany in 1945, as seen through the misfortunes of an American tank crew. David Ayer’s two hours and fifteen minute war film contains the brutal dismemberment and emotional turmoil we have come to expect...

I consider 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall as consisting as a part of a trio of films, along with 2007’s Superbad and 2008’s Pineapple Express. They have the same accidental comedic tone and similarly endearing male protagonists – I would go so far as to describe them as the catalysts for the way...

Make love, not war. In Edge of Tomorrow there’s a bit of both, but the film balances them surprisingly well. Set in the near future and telling of a Dunkirk-esque alien invasion that (sort of) wipes out mankind, I hadn’t originally held out much hope for this sci-fi effort, as it...

This title suggests a simple premise: there’s a maze, and a boy has to run through it. Easy right? The film that emerges however is anything but; intricate, heart-stopping, edge-of-the-seat action which just keeps you guessing from the beginning seconds down to the end minutes. The basic story is...

First time director Yann Demange, (who does not yet even have a Wikipedia page), has achieved something with this film. This something is sustaining cinematic substance within simplicity. Set in Belfast in 1971, during the height of the violence during The Troubles (1968-98), a British soldier becomes separated from his...