Tagged John Cusack

It’s fair to say that Jack Black is a bit of a ‘marmite’ actor. You’ll either love his unique brand of brashness and lack of subtlety, or it’ll have you avoiding a film at all costs. This persona has...

“This is an emergency!” Spike Lee proclaims at the outset of his latest feature. There is an anger coursing through Chi-Raq that hasn’t been felt in the director’s work for some time; as passionate as...

An over repeated line in Cell states that the speaker’s phone is “out of juice”. What is a juiceless phone? A brick. Well, Cell is as clunky as a retro mobile telephone, but without any of the...

If you thought audiences had seen everything Jackie Chan has to offer on screen, you thought wrong. This dazzling war epic sees Chan team up with John Cusack in the fight against Adrien Brody’s Roman...

Life has a balance and if you break this equilibrium, bad things happen. In this case, the result is Hot Tub Time Machine 2. In the first outing, the balance between puerile humour and nostalgia was just...

Con Air is a 1996 action blockbuster directed by Simon West, and has a reputation for being ridiculous, unbelievable and over the top - one that's entirely deserved. In the vast majority of instances, that's...

Love and Mercy begins with promise but this is subsequently dismantled. The positives include wonderful orchestration and initially smooth linkage between the separate chronologies; they extend to the able...

1980s high school movies are a mixed bag, with the plethora of cult teen films ranging tonally from dick jokes to contemplations on mortality (sometimes even within the same film). Of course the high-school...

Continuing the recent trend of articles about Spike Jonze on One Room With A View, here's a Love Letter dedicated to Being John Malkovich and why it's a work of genius that should be adored by everyone....

As critics map the stars of Cronenberg’s latest, the facial and vocal contortions of Moore’s transformation into the uptalking over-sharer Havana will make her a focal point - but no one in Maps puts a...

In June 1985, just two months after the release of John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, Joel Schumacher delivered an outrageously underrated spiritual sequel in the form of St. Elmo’s Fire. Sharing stars Judd...