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Red Dog (Cinema Review)
 Do you remember a time when if there was trouble at the old mill, that loveable little collie would run to your rescue in minutes? Now imagine that Lassie stumbled across a pint of Fosters...
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Cinema Review)
 If you enjoy giant bees, secret submarines and golden volcanoes, you will like Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. And let’s face it – who doesn’t like...
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Margin Call (Cinema Review)
 The typical association with the margin or marginality is invisibility. Though the ‘margin’ referred to in this film possesses quite a different meaning, invisibility is its most prominent...
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War Horse (Cinema Review)
 Expecting a tale of melancholy and heartache, with Spielberg’s name on the tin and promises of a tear-jerker (even the woman next to me apologised in advance for fear of blubbing)...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (Cinema Review)
 Author Arthur Conan Doyle’s seminal character has gone through a ridiculous number of face-lifts over the years. (My favourite interpretation is...
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Resistance (Cinema Review)
 Resistance imagines an alternative universe where D-Day has failed and Britain has been invaded by Germany. It is 1944, and the setting is a sleepy Welsh village that becomes...
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Tower Heist (Cinema Review)
 Tower Heist delivers exactly what it says on the tin. However, that’s kind of all it is: a heist of a tower – nothing more and nothing less. After the staff of the high rise New York apartments...
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Real Steel (Cinema Review)
 If science fiction robot films are your cup of tea then Real Steel hits every mark. Separating it from the rest of the genre though, is its genuine warmth, and in true Disney style, quite an...
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Retreat (Cinema Review)
 Retreat is a British thriller about a couple called Kate (Thandie Newton), and her husband Martin (Cillian Murphy) who have escaped to an isolated island for a much needed break...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Cinema Review)
 The Boy Who Lived has been a part of my life now for 14 years and knowing the big finale was just around the corner was enough to have me sat in...
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A Separation (Cinema Review)
 A family drama so intense it could be thriller. This has some kind of rare intensity. It travels on another plane of emotion that does not let up. Beginning with a divorce from the point-of-view...
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Bridesmaids (Cinema Review)
 I’ve never been nor had any desire to be a bridesmaid, but this film might have just has managed to tip the scales in its favour. Think Sex and the City with less sex, add in a maid of...
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Countdown To Zero (Cinema Review)
 At a time when we worry about global warming and overpopulation Lucy Walker (Waste Land) takes us back to a Cold War period and its fears of nuclear power...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Cinema Review)
 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tugs at the heart strings in the way that any film about a possibly autistic boy losing his father in 9/11 would...
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Coriolanus (Cinema Review)
 “If I ever get to meet him beard to beard, he is mine or I am his,” spat arch rival Tullis Aufidius (Gerard Butler) with so much conviction. If hatred could speak then it has certainly...
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Mother And Child (Cinema Review)
 Mother and Child explores the unbreakable bond against all odds, between mothers and their children.Rodrigo Garcia – son of the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez – whose earlier...
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Cinema Review)
 “The Russians are classifying this as an undeclared act of war… The blame points to you and your team… The President has initiated ‘Ghost Protocol’...
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We Were Here (Cinema Review)
 An extraordinarily moving documentary, “We Were Here” examines how the AIDS epidemic devastated, united and transformed the gay community of San Francisco during..
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Las Acacias (Cinema Review)
 It wasn’t until the film had finished that I appreciated the beauty of this film in its entirety. Las Acacias tells a poignant story of a truck driver who, as a a favour, takes a woman...
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Snowtown (Cinema Review)
 There are passages in this film which are very hard to watch, dealing as it does with the true story of Australia’s worst serial killer and his penchant for torturing his victims...
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Albatross (Cinema Review)
 Set in a small English south-coast town, this coming-of-age film is sweet and funny, though occasionally misses subtlety in a need to labour its point. For example, we know...
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The Debt (Cinema Review)
 “We are not animals. Remember what we are, and what we are not”, David. There is something so satisfying in a Nazi-hunter film. Bringing to justice “the slime of humanity”, to quote Henry...
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Captain America: The First Avenger (Cinema Review)
 Like its protagonist, the formerly malnourished but forever heroic Steve Rogers, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ is a film with an identity crisis...
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Horrible Bosses (Cinema Review)
 Horrible Bosses is not only laugh-out-loud hilarious, but also surprising and tense in equal measure. The trailer does not do it justice by any stretch, and picks out only the easiest jokes...
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Cell 211 (Cinema Review)
 Cell 211 opens with a striking first scene in silence, forcing all focus on a man that slices his wrists open to let the blood and life drain out of him. From the outset, I knew that this...
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Holy Rollers (Cinema Review)
 Hasidic Jews with their devout beliefs and strong religious upbringing would have to make the worst movie drug couriers in history, right? Holy Rollers is in fact based on actual events...
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