Starring:
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner Review:
Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that’s full of
surprises I have no intention of spoiling. I’ll say this. In 1971,
a robbery took place at Lloyds Bank in London that involved a royal
sex scandal. The thieves, played here by Brit athlete and model
turned credible actor Jason Statham, seductive Saffron Burrows and
the cream of Brit character actors, are hustled into robbing the
place by higher-ups who are using them just to get their hands on
incriminating photos in a deposit box. Director Roger Donaldson
keeps the suspense crackling. By the end, you’ll want to know more
about a heist that literally did shake the empire.
Starring:
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict
Cumberba… Review:
Guys may assume the film version of Philippa Gregory’s chick-lit
bestseller about two Boleyn sisters who bed Henry VIII as a way to
secure the fortune of their pimp family is a form of dude torture.
They’re wrong. And not because first-time director Justin Chadwick
does a consummate job of bringing Peter Morgan’s script to
cinematic life ? he doesn’t. The film moves in frustrating herks
and jerks. What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman
and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of
intelligence and wit, swinging the film’s sixteenth-century
protofeminist issues handily into this one.
Johansson plays it subtle-sultry as Mary, who bears Henry (Eric
Bana) two bastard children but can’t get him to divorce his wife.
It’s Portman’s more calculatin…