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The Wolfpack reunites for a third, and hopefully final, time but the results are as vacuous and puerile as ever. Better than Part II, if only because it attempts to… Read More
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A surprise hit back in 2009, The Hangover took a simple premise, a trio of essentially unknown actors, and director Todd Phillips’ particular brand of frat boy humour and spun… Read More
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As much as anything I selected this title purely for some brainless, Sunday afternoon fun. I understand that it basically lifts its storyline from a recent computer game – Lex… Read More
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For a film that mostly consists of Al Pacino and Christopher Walken hanging out, reminiscing about the good old days and itching to get back in the action and go… Read More
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Can’t say that I was especially blown away by Haskell Wexler’s docudrama that follows Robert Forster’s Chicago TV cameraman as he surveys the turbulent climate that builds to the 1968… Read More
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Noomi Rapace reteams with Niels Arden Oplev, the Swedish director of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for his Hollywood debut. She plays a facially scarred car crash… Read More
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Peter Chan takes a break from period action epics for this comedy drama centring on a trio of university friends who attempt to make their way to America and build… Read More
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The director of Shutter and Alone breaks all the box office records in Thailand with his latest, a vivacious and humorous retelling of one of the country’s most famous ghost… Read More
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Abbas Kiarostami continues his filmmaking sabbatical away from his Iranian homeland, which began in Tuscany with Certified Copy and now moves to Tokyo. As with many of the director’s films,… Read More
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I managed to miss this at a couple of different festivals last year, before finally catching up with it this week on iTunes. The feature debut from Eron Sheean stars… Read More
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I’ve had a copy of this film sitting in a boxset entitled The Exorcist Complete Anthology for many years now, and never felt especially compelled to give it a watch… Read More
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Sometimes you just need to seek the comfort of an evergreen classic, and with Shane Black delighting audiences around the world with his box office smash, Iron Man 3, I… Read More
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Winner of the grand prize at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, this is the story of Saori, a young working girl who takes a new gig visiting and… Read More
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Taking its lead from the phenomenally successful Fast Five, Furious 6 ploughs forward at law-breaking speed in the franchise’s newfound action movie guise. Gone are the car chases, save for… Read More
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Chilean director Nicolas Lopez teams up with Eli Roth for a sadistic horror-disaster movie hybrid that follows a group of tourists through the rubble and chaos that follows a spectacular… Read More
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Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez teams up with actor-writer-producer Eli Roth for a horror-disaster movie hybrid that sees a dispirate group of tourists and revellers battle to survive after a massive… Read More
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The debut feature from “the French Hitchcock” Henri-Georges Clouzot is a darkly humourous murder mystery, centring on a police inspector and his plucky girlfriend, who go undercover at a boarding… Read More
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