David Ayer
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Straight to Netflix: Another week, another dud movie
- Film
- February 26, 2018
Earlier this month, in the hours before the Superbowl kicked off, Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, tweeted that: “#FilmTwitter is going to explode ton(...)

Bright review: Will Smith dusts off his Men in Black suit
- Film
- December 21, 2017
LAPD officer Daryl Ward (Will Smith) and token orc Deputy Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton) are beat partners in an alternate world where humans have coexis(...)

The best eight shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime this month
- Culture
- December 1, 2017, 05:00
Voyeur Netfilx, December 1st Voyeur: a “social experiment” Voyeur is a documentary based on journalist Gay Talese’s New Yorker essay (...)

Suicide Squad review: Dark, derivative and desperate
- Film
- August 2, 2016
Have you not heard? The DC universe is “darker” than its primary-coloured Marvel equivalent. All those who endured the murky sludge that was Batman V (...)

Jon Bernthal: A punishing role for Daredevil’s new guy
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 21, 2016, 06:00
I am sitting in a hotel corridor munching on a free bun and waiting for my turn to interview Jon Bernthal, who will play Marvel’s comic anti-hero Pun(...)

Fury director David Ayer: ’War is hell, yeah’
- Film
- October 24, 2014, 01:45
David Ayer must be the only filmmaker in the world who can look manly while stirring and sipping peppermint tea. Speaking in a low, deep voice, the(...)

Fury review: Good guys do good. Nazis get shot. What more do you want?
- Film
- October 20, 2014, 08:02
The reptilian or lower brain controls basic life functions such as breathing, the fight-or- flight mechanism and the inner voice that insists it is(...)