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			Shutter Island Cinema Review This thriller offers a heady mix of mental illness, war crimes, incarceration, grief, loss of identity and disgusting weather... read more Father Of My Children Cinema Review Rambling drama that fades into insignificance. The movie opens with Gregoire Canvel... read more The Lovely Bones Cinema Review There have been two strands to Peter Jackson’s film-making. The most obvious is his bravura directing. The Lord of... read more A Single Man Cinema Review This small scale but very impressive film is based on a somewhat autobiographical Christopher Isherwood novel. George is... read more Crazy Heart Cinema Review Hard-drinking, chain smoking, uber-grizzled country singer Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) makes his way from venue to crumby venue... read more Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire Cinema Review Every so often American independent cinema produces a small gem of a movie which... read more 44 Inch Chest Cinema Review Think of that great David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross – scintillating dialogue amongst a group of competitive middle-aged men... read more The Boys are Back Cinema Review Clive Owen tries to cope with the death of his wife in this watchable drama.  After the death of... read more Avatar Cinema Review Avatar is a stunning movie experience. Credit to James Cameron, a director with a fantastically broad vision... read more Me And Orson Welles Cinema Review Genius is an epithet bandied about way too much. Geniuses are rare, wouldn’t you agree?.. read more Glorious 39 Cinema Review According to Glorious 39 (and I assume history books will agree), the summer of 1939 was a gloriously hot and languid affair... read more 2012 Cinema Review Buckle up for a seat of your pants CGI ride in this frenetic end of the world disaster movie. The end is nigh after an American... read more Moon DVD Review Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) works on the moon as an astronaut for Lunar Industries. He has nearly completed a three-year mission to... read more The Men Who Stare at Goats Cinema Review This is a weak, not-very-funny satire on all things ‘new age’ and the wilder excesses of the U.S. military... read more True Blood – but is it any good? I must admit, I’m not the biggest fan of science fiction, more to the point, I’m not a huge fan of Vampire’s. I was assured True... read more An Education Cinema Review Carey Mulligan steals the show as a schoolgirl who is introduced to the high life by an older man. Based on the memoirs of... read more Fantastic Mr. Fox Cinema Review A movie that should appeal to all ages, Wes Anderson’s animated featured looks set to be a big hit. Anderson has a... read more The Invention of Lying Cinema Review There are echoes of The Truman Show and Pleasantville in this movie, in that co-writers and... read more Tony Manero DVD Review Foreign language films can be exceptionally revealing, especially when they touch on socio-political issues. When the... read more SAW VI - Trailer  SAW VI is set for release in the UK and Eire on October 23rd. Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules unleashed... read more Dorian Grey Cinema Review Dorian Grey is a urine deficient adaptation of the great Oscar Wilde novel. It’s always a touch tricky when trying to adapt... read more Sin Nombre Cinema Review In a day and age where, as the maestro of Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodóvar, recently put it, “cinema… increasingly resembles... read more The Red Baron Cinema Review The Red Baron tells the story of the legendary German fighter pilot Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Von Richthofen flew his... read more The Lucky Ones DVD Review Returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, Sgt Fred Cheaver (Tim Robbins) has retired and Sgt TK Poole (Michael Pena) and... read more The Burning Plain DVD Review Dumped in the cinemas on a very limited release with virtually no publicity, this really deserved better. The directing debut... read more Let The Right One In DVD Review "I'm 12," pale faced Eli (Lina Leandersson) tells Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), the androgynous looking blonde... read more In The Loop DVD Review A sort of Yes Minister for the 21st Century, but with sharper teeth, The Thick Of It is Armando Iannucci’s award-winning... read more Noughties But Nice The Noughties have only been over a couple of months, and I think it’s time to look back at the best of the decade. It is obviously too... read more The Disappearance of Alice Creed Cinema Review Terrible kidnap plot saga which at 98 minutes long makes teeth extraction slightly more bearable... read more The Last Station Cinema Review Having become hugely famous from writing his big novels, and having added considerably to his aristocrat’s wealth, the ageing... read more Tony London Serial Killer Cinema Review Watchable dark portrait of a tragic and lonely figure. Gerard Johnson’s first feature is a moving study... read more The Wolfman Cinema Review Silly creature on the prowl movie which lacks any real bite. Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is contacted by his brother’s... read more Invictus Cinema Review Nelson Mandela had a rare gift which enabled him to be the greatest politician of the modern era: a willingness to listen to and... read more The BEST & WORST OF 2009 AND A PREVIEW OF 2010 The dust is settling on 2009, an apt metaphor perhaps, considering the volume of apocalyptic movies... read more Exam Cinema Review It is hard to recommend this. It feels like a film school exercise which has been stretched far beyond its natural capacity to engage or entertain... read more It’s Complicated Cinema Review ... or “the oh-so-tortured love lives of the well-heeled West Coast middle classes.” Writer-director Nancy Meyers has a saccharine... read more Nowhere Boy Cinema Review Learning of an artist’s early life does not necessarily reveal the source of their talent, but it is, nonetheless, interesting to fill in... read more The Girlfriend Experience Cinema Review After the unsatisfying The Informant Stephen Soderbergh’s finds his game with the absorbing... read more Clive Owen: The boy is back British actor Clive Owen shines in The Boys are Back, a heart wrenching tale of single parenthood. In what seems like a... read more New Moon Rising Cinema Review “It will be as though I never existed”, brooding, self-sacrificing vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) informs his beloved Bella... read more Amelia Cinema Review On the plus side this film has some gorgeous cinematography, courtesy of Stuart Dryburgh, especial the aerial shots accompanying... read more Bright Star Cinema Review Bio pics don’t always get right inside the mind of their subjects, whether living or dead, but this film about John Keats is as good... read more Up in the Air Cinema Review George Clooney plays a guy whose job involves a life of airports, planes, hotels and firing people. It took director Jason Reitman... read more City of Life and Death Cinema Review Beautifully shot, atmospheric, realistic and tense drama about the brutal invasion of Nanjing in 1937... read more Triangle Cinema Review Would you be scared if you repeatedly met an exact version of yourself? Would you be scared if you repeatedly met... read more Hammer Time! This Halloween Idea Generation opens the crypt doors to launch London’s most frightening festival – the Hammer House of... read more Coffin Rock Cinema Review Run-of-the-mill Aussie psycho-stalker yarn. Married couple Jessie (Lisa Chappell) and Rob (Robert Taylor) have been... read more The Horseman Cinema Review A torture gore-fest as an aggrieved father goes on a retribution quest after the death of his daughter. You don’t have to be... read more Fish Tank Cinema Review Hurray! “An excellent British movie” in the shape of Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank. The film takes us into the pretty grim and bleak... read more Birdwatchers Cinema Review Marco Bechis’ film Birdwatchers explores some of the complexities and issues facing indigenous people living in Brazil today... read more The Hurt Locker Cinema Review If you believe the hype The Hurt Locker is destined to be considered one of the best war films ever. The movie revolves around... read more Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus DVD Review As you’ll gather from the title, Shakespeare it’s not. A creature feature B-movie... read more Adam Cinema Review Definition of Asperger’s syndrome: Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it therefore show... read more 17 Again DVD Review Twenty years ago, star high school athlete Mike O’Donnell (Zac Efron) walked away from a college basketball scholarship... read more Revolution Road DVD Review Ken Loach, Lindsay Anderson and Coronation Street all have their central focus in a film genre known as ‘kitchen sink’... read more
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