019 - Expend4bles and The Lesson

After a week off, The Chronicle the film Podcast for The Peoples Movies returns with episode 019, with Expend4bles and The Lesson.

First review week the boys (and now girls) are back in town with Expendables 4 aka Expend4bles. After a 10 hiatus Sly Stallone returns as Barney Ross with Jason Statham for another slice of retro style action thriller hokum. Some familiar faces such as Lundgren, Couture also return, nw with 50 Cents, Megan Fox, Iko Uwais and Tony Jaa joining. Barney and his crew are assigned to retreive detonators for Nuclear bomb which a mysterious but dangerous Ocelot plans to use to kick-off World War III.

Second and final review for this week is Alice Troughton's taut noir inspired thriller The Lesson. Starring Daryl McCormack as Liam a English literature student, aspiring writer who during the Summer tutors English. His first student is Bertie (Stephen McMillan) who just happens to be the son of his literature idol J.M Sinclair (Richard E Grant). He hired Liam to help get his son into Oxford University and the longer he stays in the Sinclair home, dark secrets unravel. One even gets him involved, but who is manipulating who?

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