Con Air (1997)

Psychopathic prisoners take over the plane transporting them I forget where - it doesn't matter - and it is up to John Cusack on the ground and Nicolas Cage and his spectacular mullet in the air to thwart the criminals' plans to do I forget what - something diabolical, it doesn't matter - in this shamelessly unsubtle 90s action that just goes on and on and on with lots of slo mo swagger, fiery explosions, and a squealing electric guitar insisting how super exciting it all is.

★★☆☆☆

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Disgrace (2008)

Hard to succinctly describe, this engrossing drama based on a J M Coetzee book has a disgraced university professor (John Malkovich) hiding away on his daughter's farm in South Africa where a violent attack starts him rethinking such things as the male entitlement he wilfully, intellectually defends.

★★★★☆

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