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Review: Southpaw

Boxing movies follow very simple conventions. Their stories usually centre on underdogs, often surmised by the reliable cliches ‘rags to riches’ and ‘fall from grace’. It is therefore unsurprising that, as a result of this idiomatic predictability, some see boxing movies, or ones about combat sports in general, as a genre to look down upon. So the […]

Review: Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal is a leading man whose reputation needs no introduction, having proven his acting mettle across the board with films like Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead, amongst many others. While he hasn’t much luck on the big budget stage, he does have a knack for lending his talents to smaller productions that may […]

Review: End of Watch

It's been well over a year since Jake Gyllenhaal graced our screens with his presence as a disembodied soldier in Source Code. This time around he plays LAPD cop Brian Taylor and is joined by Michael Peña (Battle Los Angeles) in the role of his partner and best friend, Mike Zavala. We watch as they respond to a wide span of police calls ranging from drunken attacks on postmen to house fires and kidnapping
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