film review: The Heat (2013)

film review: The Heat (2013)

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The buddy cop comedy is a staple of cineplex. It’s bread and butter, take two mismatched funny guys throw them into a cop car chasing bad guys and hilarity will ensue. Or at least that’s the formula. But how does that work when it’s two women?

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film review: Song for Marion

film review: Song for Marion

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I hadn’t thought that a dramedy about a elderly widower who joins a choir to honour the memory of his recently deceased wife would really be my kind of thing… but I will freely admit, I was wrong.

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film review: St. George’s Day (2012)

film review: St. George’s Day (2012)

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that the British film industry only churns out gritty dramas about gangsters or hooligans. I’m sure it’s not actually true but you can’t deny that those are generally the ones that make it to the cinema.

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film review: Battleship (2012)

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Whether or not you’ll like Battleship will be very much predicated on your ability to ignore rubbish. Your tolerance for nonsense, if you will… … Because, my oh my, is there a lot of rubbish in Battleship. If you can get past that then it’s all smooth sailing. Or not, as the case may be.

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film review: Wild Bill (2012)

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Wild Bill is the directorial debut of actor Dexter Fletcher, you may know him from the likes of Band of Brothers. I didn’t but you might.

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film review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – part 1

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My unplanned and unexpected fall into all things Twilight continues. Somehow I found myself at a midnight screening of the latest installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – part 1. I still don’t know how it happened but it did. Of course, as I had mentioned in the post with clips and trailers of Breaking […]

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film review: Sucker Punch (2011)

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You remember when I said the trailer for Sucker Punch had everything but the kitchen sink in it? Yeah. Turns out the kitchen sink was sense. This was not as phenomenal a mess as The Spirit but it did have a few extra touches of outlandishness that only Zack Snyder is brave enough to throw […]

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film review: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010)

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It was with surprising lack of trepidation that I wandered into Cineworld on Monday 7th June for the one night only showing of the new Rush documentary, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage. As we passed the bar I couldn’t help but notice it was awash with stringy ponytails and tour t-shirts. Not quite the usual […]

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film review: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

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As I’m sure many of you will have noticed by now. I’m a pretty big fan of horror films. Course, more often than not, being a horror fan involves watching a lot of terrible horror films. And, more often than not, those terrible films are sequels or remakes. It was with this in mind that […]

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film review: Green Zone (2010)

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Every review I’ve seen of Green Zone mentions the Bourne films. This one is no exception. It’s not really that surprising though, it’s all over the poster and they share a star and a director, well the last two do anyway. To me that’s where the similarity ends. Well… ok, there’s the whole annoying shaky […]

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