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The Way (Cinema Review)
With Charlie Sheen’s exploits continuing to raise onlookers’ eyebrows, his father Martin is left to rely on his less theatrical son Emilio Estevez to partner him on this picturesque journey...
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Diamond Dog Capers (DVD Review)
If there is one sure way to make a nice family movie, cast a dog as the lead star. A cute, furry one who has the right mix of adorable appeal and the ability to act on command (think Lassie...
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Monsters (DVD Review)
Nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, writer-director (and cameraman) Gareth Edwards would have been a far more deserving winner than Chris Morris for Four Lions...
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Somewhere (DVD Review)
Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is an actor living in his own bubble, unable to truly connect with anyone. He lives a privileged lifestyle with no limitations. The actor, and well known...
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Hop (Cinema Review)
I didn't arrive hostile to Hop. Honestly. I'm no Russell Brand-hater, and our boy does a personable job (or should that be rabbitable job?) voicing cute cartoon E.B., reluctant heir...
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Mad Men Season 4 (DVD Review)
Multi Golden Globe and Emmy award winning cable series Mad Men sees its fourth season released on DVD this month as the cult favorite continues to rake in more critical acclaim and...
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Finale (DVD Review)
Basing a horror film on a true story is not the easiest task in the world of film-making, but writer and director John Michael Elfers gives it a good go in ‘Finale’, a film based on his experiences...
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Wake Wood (Cinema Review)
Most people are usually sceptical of British films, thinking them cheaply made with bad acting. While Hammer-produced Wake Wood is not the greatest piece de resistance, it certainly has... more... |
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Open House (DVD Review)
Open House is the directorial debut of Andrew Paquin - brother of Anna who is given a minor role alongside her husband Stephen Moyer – who also penned this unconvincing home invasion...
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Age Of The Dragons (Cinema Review)
An ambitious attempt to re-tell literary classic Moby Dick, Age of the Dragons transplants the story to a fantasy world inhabited by huge dragons, primitive machinery and Vinnie Jones...
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Operation: Valkyrie (DVD Review)
You'd be forgiven in confusing this film with the recent Hollywood star laden version released in 2008 that saw Tom Cruise as the heroic Claus Von Stauffenberg yet Purists...
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Not Going Out Series Four (DVD Review)
Those that loathe reality TV will be rubbing their hands together with glee at the thought of the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent having to attract huge audience numbers without its leading ...
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Deadmeat (DVD Review)
Kwabena Manso’s (AKA Q) directorial debut is a multi-layered film based on his novel of the same name. Deadmeat explores a plethora of issues bounding between infidelity to gang ...
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Easy A (DVD Review)
There have been scores of high school movies, but, populated by caricatures and riddled with clichés and predictability, very few have achieved anything like a pass grade. However...
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Massacre at My Lai Four (DVD Review)
Making a Vietnam war film original, engaging, and creditable is a pretty tall order for anybody these days, so it probably wasn't the wisest choice for director Paolo Bertola to tackle that...
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Crying With Laughter (DVD Review)
Kicking off with some of bluest language you're likely to hear outside of a working men's club somewhere in the back streets of Glasgow, this movie pulls no punches and sets out its stall...
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French Film (DVD Review)
What is love? A question which is rarely addressed in today’s rom-coms. We get the usual fluffy fantasies that gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside. French Film is no fluffy fantasy...
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Dog Pound (DVD Review)
Dog Pound is an uncompromising prison drama set in a Youth Correctional Centre in Montana, USA and follows the story of juveniles Butch, Davis and Angel who are separately packed...
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Terror Trap (DVD Review)
If you're looking to watch a movie as unoriginal as it's title suggests than look no further. There is possibly no other activity better suited to wasting 90 minutes of your day than to endure...
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Devil (DVD Review)
Whenever a film is badged with the M. Night Shyamalan insignia it is hard not to begin viewing without some obvious preconceptions. One expects some mystical, spiritual or...
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The Fighter (Cinema Review)
Opening in Lowell, Massachusetts 1993, Christian Bale’s Dicky is being interviewed by a documentary crew, and describes himself as a “squirrelly” fighter. Straight away I’m ...
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Season Of The Witch (Cinema Review)
Who doesn’t love a medieval thriller? The Name of the Rose is an extraordinary novel turned into an excellent film. However, not many of these are made. Within a year though we have two...
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Tron: Legacy (Cinema Review)
In 1982 a ground-breaking special effects movie was released. It was called Tron. Jeff Bridges was Kevin Flynn, a gifted technology whizz-kid dematerialised via...
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The Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen (Cinema Review)
Let’s get this out in the open straight away, I could not wait for this film. Chen Zhen has been portrayed before in some of the best martial arts movies ever...
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The Vintner’s Luck (DVD Review)
The first film that New Zealand director Niki Caro and Maori actress Keisha Castle-Hughes made together was Whale Rider which earned the latter an Oscar nomination. This, their second...
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The Brothers Bloom (DVD Review)
If you can get through the excruciatingly irritating prologue with the whimsical narrator expounding the backstory in whimsical rhyme like a bad case of Pushing Daises, then...
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The Illusionist (Cinema Review)
It is the 1950s and Rock and Roll is taking the world by storm. Our protagonist is Tatischeff, a conjurer who specializes in the quaint art of rabbits-out-of-a-hat-magic and apparently...
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The Secret In Their Eyes (Cinema Review)
It’s not often that this can be said... we have been spoilt. Police fiction on television has been of the highest calibre imaginable. The Wire, Dexter and The Shield are Greek tragedy...
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Invictus (DVD Review)
Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Prison after nearly 26 years sets the scene for this biopic directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy...
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The Office: An American Workplace (DVD Review)
Critics were poised and ready to condemn those cheeky Americans for poaching the very British BBC hit The Office. To everyone’s surprise, this US...
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True Blood Season 2 (DVD Review)
Disappointing HBO series. HBO have set the bar pretty high with the likes of The Sopranos and The Wire in recent years and all though much hyped the True Blood series fails to impress...
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S.N.U.B (DVD Review)
The actor’s elephant graveyard, where “Doctors” extras come to die. Badly… This is an offensively poor attempt at a post-apocalyptic, mutant zombie horror, where some random...
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30 Rock Season 3 (DVD Review)
With its fourth season currently airing and a fifth season renewed, 30 Rock shows no sign of slowing down. Awards success has also greeted its doorstep, receiving the Emmy...
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Glorious 39 (DVD Review)
Stephen Poliakoff’s first cinema release in a decade proves to be a bit of a lacklustre affair. The ingredients are there for a great film but things don’t quite fit together. Aspiring actress Anne...
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Dear John Cinema Review (DVD Review)
Dear John is an enjoyable romantic drama which has an old fashioned wartime romance feel about it. The last adaptation from a Nicolas Sparks novel, The Notebook, was a commercial...
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No One knows about Persian Cats (DVD Review)
Rather like the documentary Afghan Star from last year, this riveting piece of drama provides a great service to western audiences: it shows us the...
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The Day Of The Triffids (DVD Review)
The Beeb’s occasional romps into dramatic recreations of classic novels, plays and musical extravaganzas seldom turn up real duffers. After all, for all of the Corporation’s understated...
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On the Blind Side (Cinema Review)
To say I was moved by On the Blind Side would be an understatement. The Brigadier felt the same. We could hardly move from our seats at the end of the film. On the Blind Side stars...
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Dead Man Running (DVD Review)
Another gun-toting cockney-gangster film you say? Well yes, but it’s a goodun. Even mobster loan sharks are feeling the pinch of the credit-crunch in this gritty yet comedic day in the life film...
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Ninja (DVD Review)
Plot Spoiler: Its rubbish. ‘nuff said. This film is diabolical in every aspect; I had to refrain from turning it off and flushing it down the toilet after less than five minutes viewing, and only...
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