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Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Written by Apatow-adjacent Jay Baruchel (asseen in Knocked Up) and Evan Goldberg (PineappleExpress, Superbad),this is an affectionate and violent insight into the life of an Ice Hockeyenforcer, the player used to protect his team and intimidate the other players.Sean William Scott is Doug, a nice but none-too-bright bouncer, the black sheepof a family of Jewish doctors, who finds his calling as an enforcer who iseventually hired to protect a star player who has been find out more...

Vinnie Jones plays a washed up football superstar (and we accuse the Americans of having no irony) in jail for assaulting a police officer and forced by the prison governor to put together a football team from the odd job of inmates in a match against the prison wardens. Mean Machine is a carbon copy (including the title) of an American film starring Burt Reynolds, which was a hard brutal affair that also had much grim humour. This British offering is like an alcohol free version of Bourbon..... find out more...

Ex-pro quarterback Paul Crewe, residing in the local state prison, is coerced into putting together a football team by the warden, who wants to see his prison guard team win the national championship, but, though the match is supposed to be little more than a walk over for the guards, how can you truly persuade a dozen hardened, warden hating, criminals to lie down and take a beating? Mean Machine is leaner, meaner, harder and funnier than the recent remake starring Vinnie Jones, oh....and the c find out more...

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty, Norman Stanley Fletcher, the new prison officer, Beale, makes Mackay look soft and, what's more, an escape plan is hatching in the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it. The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a "celebrity" football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber is injured. In the ensuing confusion, Fletcher finds himself on the wrong side of t find out more...

Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is the (unlikely) star American football player thrown into the klink after a drunken blow-out. The dodgy warden enlists Paul to put together a team of inmates to play the guards, apparently not aware of the prisoners' potential desire for a bit of payback. A remake of Burt Reynold's Mean Machine, this watered down version of the brutal original is a pretty pointless time-filler. find out more...