Articles Tagged JCVD

REVIEW: I’m Still Here

Opting for death over exile and refusing an existence lived out in silence, the Greek philosopher Socrates famously concluded that, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Whilst Socrates seems an unlikely proponent of celebrity culture, his words take on new meaning in this era of tell-all star exposés and 24/7 paparazzi press. For ‘ex-actor’ [...]

REVIEW: JCVD

The opening sequence of JCVD is an exercise in filmmaking smarts. In a single long take, a battle ready Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks, punches, dodges and weaves, stabs and shoots his way through a horde of armed assailants, while Curtis Mayfield’s lyrics for ‘Hard Time’ (‘…I played the part I feel they want of me’) [...]