Largely forgotten Europudding of a western, uniting Connery and Bardot, two of the biggest stars of the time. It's based on a story by Western veteran Louis L'Amour, although it also bears a strong resemblance to Elmore Leonard's story Hombre, filmed a couple of years earlier with Paul Newman in the title role. It's your basic fishes out of water story...

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Excellent Swedish adaptation of the first in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Michael Nyqvist stars as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recruited to investigate the death of a young girl 30 years previously in a remote part of Sweden. Noomi Rapace plays emo bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander who ends up on Blomkvist's side in the battle against assorted evil authority figures.

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I love a good western; hell, I love a bad western. Unfortunately we don’t get many these days, but here’s one and it’s 95% good. Liam Neeson chases Pierce Brosnan across some startling scenery at the end of the civil war, from snowy mountains to desert plains, and there’s a fair bit of gory violence along the  way, as well as a fine supporting cast of villains (Michael Wincott, Ed Lauter and Xander Berkeley among them). Thematically it’s similar to The Outlaw Josey Wales in its view on the  pointlessness of living for revenge; I wondered if the casting...

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