Category Archives: Film

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Zach Synder, director of 300 and Watchmen, plunders the mind of your typical 15-year-old and finds dragons, a WWII-era bomber swooping under a bridge, Japanese schoolgirls with swords, trench fighting and machine guns all mixed up into 1:26 of insanity.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb6z4HTwWR4

Sorry, Karl. No fanboys in on Wednesday.

This little gem had Broadsheet in floods of tears as young men, much as randy Uncle Mike would make us cry when he bit us. But unlike Mike, Flight of the Doves is not paralysed down one side of its body with severe gout in both legs and married to a woman who pees in a bag.

In fact Flight of the Doves has aged impeccably. This section deals with pretty much everything that was to happen 30 years later. It opens outside a synagogue in Temple Bar (actually The River Club), where two scamps are hiding in bins…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s

Stallone! Statham! Li! Lundgren! Austin! Rourke! (Not forgetting cameos from Schwarzenegger! and Willis!)  It’s your favourite 80s and 90s action heroes on a working holiday. They’ve aged, you’ve aged but we’re all still in love.

And sure while they’re at it, why not stiff the locals?