Reviews

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Mad Max: Fury Road Review

The lead up to MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was littered with disappointment. First the news that Mel Gibson would not return (I was totally up for a grisly old...

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Pitch Perfect 2 Review

I hated myself for liking the first film and was reluctant to watch the second….so how does PITCH PERFECT 2 fare? PITCH PERFECT is the bane of every s...

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Boychoir

Young Stet is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.  He has a junkie mother who is utterly no help to him. His only support is his teacher Ms. Stee...

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Unfriended Review

The movies takes place on a computer screen of high schooler Blaire, who is watching a clip of her old friend killing herself. She stops when her boyf...

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While We’re Young Review

Ben Stiller knows how to play impotent rage. Many of his characters seem to be wired narcissists with anger management problems. In one way, the chara...

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Infinitely Polar Bear

It’s 1978. Cam Stuart (Mark Ruffalo) is a man from a well-to-do Boston family who should be able to walk into a highly paid job based on his connectio...

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as t...

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The Age of Adaline Review

Age of Adaline is an intriguing film that combines romance, drama and fantasy. So does it work? We meet Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively), an unassuming 2...

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The Gunman Review

Since Liam Neeson and TAKEN, a whole new sub-genre of ageing action flicks have popped up, taking over-the-hill actors and (despite their creaking joi...

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The Longest Ride Review

Nicolas Sparks fans rejoice, here comes another “critic proof” film adaption of one of his novels. The Longest Ride is set in North Carolina, where So...

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A Little Chaos

It is 1692 and King Louis the XIVth of France is moving the aristocrats and nobles of the court to Versailles. André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect...

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Fast and the Furious 7

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for the death of his brother. The Fast and the Furious returns with its seventh film...

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Big Eyes Review

From the late 1950s, America fell in love with the work of Walter Keane. He captured the public imagination with his melancholy paintings of big-eyed ...

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Cinderella Review

Cinderella has been given the live action treatment a number of times since she originally appeared. So how does the 2015 version of Cinderella fair? ...

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Insurgent Review

Second instalment in the Divergent series has been unleashed. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off. This time Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Th...

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Run All Night

Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his lo...

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Citizenfour Review

You are likely to have heard of the name Edward Snowden, the former system administrator who worked as a contractor to the United States’ National Sec...

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Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast Review

Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can’t judge a book by its cover, or an animal by its fangs, so she befriends a huge and mysterio...

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Top Five Review

Andre Allen (Rock) is a movie star. He transitioned from being a top stand-up act years ago and he is now famous for the role of Hammy The Bear, a vio...

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Chappie Review

CHAPPIE: Proof that you shouldn’t always listen to movie critics. I could barely contain my excitement when the media invite for CHAPPIE hit my inbox....