★☆☆☆☆ The inimitable Danny Dyer returned to UK cinema screens earlier this year in Ray Cooney and John Luton's infamous Run for Your Wife (2012), occupying the type of role that few would have associated him with - but will be now be praying he never returns to. Far similar in style and tone to an extended CBeebies offering than the type of 1970s British sex comedy that it purports to ape (the Confessions... cycle's Robin Askwith even makes an ill-advised cameo - the first of many), Cooney and Luton's fatuous farce flops from one unbearable skit to the next, before letting its reprehensible bigamist off the hook, scot-free.
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
- 9/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
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- 2/16/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Ray Cooney, John Luton; Screenwriter: Ray Cooney; Starring: Danny Dyer, Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen, Neil Morrissey; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 12A
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
- 2/14/2013
- Digital Spy
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Director: Alex De Rakoff.
Writers: Alex De Rakoff and John Luton.
There have been a lot of crime thriller exports from the UK in recent years including: RocknRolla, Jack Says, Layer Cake and The All Together. Dead Man Running is definitely in this category and while the film is enjoyable to watch, the film does not add anything new to this genre. The film stars Tamer Hassan, no rookie to the crime thriller, Danny Dyer, as comic relief and Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent. Described as a "larky caper filled with geezers, shootahs and maappets" (Mirror), Dead Man Running is an above average crime drama, with some comedic lines thrown in for punch.
The film's premise is simple really, as Nick (Hassan) is 100K in debt to a local loan shark (Jackson). This playing it straight ex-criminal is given 24 hours to pay-off his debt. Otherwise, his...
Director: Alex De Rakoff.
Writers: Alex De Rakoff and John Luton.
There have been a lot of crime thriller exports from the UK in recent years including: RocknRolla, Jack Says, Layer Cake and The All Together. Dead Man Running is definitely in this category and while the film is enjoyable to watch, the film does not add anything new to this genre. The film stars Tamer Hassan, no rookie to the crime thriller, Danny Dyer, as comic relief and Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent. Described as a "larky caper filled with geezers, shootahs and maappets" (Mirror), Dead Man Running is an above average crime drama, with some comedic lines thrown in for punch.
The film's premise is simple really, as Nick (Hassan) is 100K in debt to a local loan shark (Jackson). This playing it straight ex-criminal is given 24 hours to pay-off his debt. Otherwise, his...
- 9/4/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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