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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Die Hard 4.0 film review: Bruce Willis’s noggin – the golden egg of contemporary action cinema

Yippee Ki Yay! Bruce Willis is back in his career defining role as Detective John McClane. Grizzled, grumpy, borderline masochistic and now moving through the meaty phase of middle age, McClane is a hard-edged, hard-love, hard-nosed, hard-boiled screen hero whose one superpower is his unrelenting obstinacy – he dies the hardest. Too bald? Too old? [...]