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Boxing films are notoriously hard to pull off. They can go from the sublime to the ridiculous very easily, as director’s try to capture the frantic nature of the sport. The truth is that the best boxing films don’t focus on the sport itself, but the people involved in it. Which is exactly what Southpaw tries to do.
Footage has just been released of WWE 2K16, showing that… well it’s pretty much the same as all the other ones. WWE games have been running off the same tired engine for years now and even with a change in developer, it doesn’t look likely to stop anytime soon. Sadly, that engine just doesn’t work and creates an experience that has more in common with a fighting game than a wrestling game.
The Legend of Barney Thomson is born from the city it is set in. It’s humour, people and language are so Glaswegian that you wonder how it will go down to any audience not based in Scotland. Robert Carlyle’s debut film as a director is as Scottish as he is and sees both him and Emma Thompson steal the show.
If John McClane had been fighting against a faceless bad guy in Die Hard it’s a safe bet that it, like hundreds of other action films, would have been forgotten instantly. Hans Gruber made him, because a good guy needs a bad guy. Roddy Piper was that bad guy. He was the ying to Hulk Hogan’s yang and it’s a pretty safe bet that without the Hot Rod, Hulk Hogan would never have reached the height of celebrity that he did. On the week that it came out that Hulk wasn’t the squeaky clean American hero that he wanted us all to believe, Roddy had to upstage him once again. Sadly, this time he did it by leaving this Earth behind.
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