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STOLEN (Simon West, 2012)

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Starring: Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston You may like this if you like: Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008), Ransom (Ron Howard, 1996), Die Hard 4.0 (Len Wiseman, 2007) Expert bank robber Will Montgomery (Cage) is taking part in a ‘routine’ … Continue reading

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KICK – ASS (ARSE) 2 (Jeff Wadlow, 2013)

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Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse You may like this if you like: Kick-Ass (Mathew Vaughn, 2010), Die Hard 4.0 (Len Wiseman, 2007), Super (James Gunn, 2010 Set weeks after the original, the heroics of Kick-Ass (Taylor-Johnson) has … Continue reading

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RED 2 (Dean Parisot, 2013)

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Starring: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren You may like this if you like: Red (Robert Schwentke, 2010), A Good Day to Die Hard (John Moore, 2013), The Expendables 2 (Simon West, 2012) ‘The best never rest’? Hardly, considering they … Continue reading

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THE LONE RANGER (Gore Verbinski, 2013)

Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner You may like this if you like: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), John Carter (Andrew Stanton, 2012), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) … Continue reading

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THE BURFORD TOP 10S: MY PERSONAL TOP 10 FILM COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME

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I once heard a TV producer claim that, and I quote, “the composer is there to sort out scenes where the writer has fucked up”. There is an element of truth in that and for me the music in a … Continue reading

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THE BURFORD TOP 10: MY MOST QUOTABLE FILMS OF ALL TIME

We all of course have films that we love, and we have films that we love and often quote. These quotes may always make us laugh, they may be poignant or they may just have a unique individual meaning to … Continue reading

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ARBITRAGE (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012)

  Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth You may like this if you liked: Margin Call (J.C. Chandor, 2011), Contraband (Baltasar Kormákur, 2012), Broken City (Allen Hughes, 2013) Robert Miller (Gere) is a multi millionaire married hedge-funder whose life … Continue reading

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PACIFIC RIM (Guillermo Del Toro, 2013)

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Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi Genre: Crash bang wallop action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Expensive Power Rangers Plot? Well, giant monstrous creatures known as Kaiju start rising from some kind of space portal in the Pacific Ocean (no, me neither) and decimating cities, … Continue reading

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MANIAC (Franck Khalfoun, 2012)

  Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, Genevieve Alexandra You may like this if you liked: Maniac (William Lustig, 1980), Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans, 2007), Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) Frank (Wood) is the socially awkward owner of a mannequin … Continue reading

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NOW YOU SEE ME (Louis Leterrier, 2013)

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo You may like this if you like: The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006), Trance (Danny Boyle, 2013), Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) Well, for those that have not seen the trailer: Four small time … Continue reading

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