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Amy Review

Like many people, I first heard about Amy Winehouse when her worldwide hit song Rehab swept across the globe, taking all before it. Suddenly it was ev...

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Marshland (La Isla Minima)

Perthians, who were quick on the draw, may have seen MARSHLAND (La Isla Minima) as part of the Spanish Film Festival back in March. If not, here’...

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Ant-Man

Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr...

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Love and Mercy

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is acknowledged as a bona fide musical genius and the man who changed the way modern popular music was created and reco...

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The Wrecking Crew Review

If you know your movies you’ll be aware The Wrecking Crew was the name of a 1969 Dean Martin movie in which he played the spy Matt Helm for the third ...

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Magic Mike XXL Review

Magic Mike XXL is here. So does it live up to all the hype the studio has put out there?  Let’s face it, not a lot of people care about its plot, the ...

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Plague

A small group of survivors in post-apocalyptic Australia seek shelter from a zombie-esque infection that has spread like a plague….sure; the story sou...

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Terminator Genisys Review

Terminator Genisys has arrived with a lot of hype and expectations. The film opens in 2029 where civilisation had ended in an apocalyptic battle betwe...

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Woman in Gold Review

The year is 1999. Maria Altmann is an octogenarian living in Los Angeles. In Austria, there is pressure on the government to make restitution to survi...

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The Nightingale

Ren Xing (Yang Xinyi) is a young girl being brought up in contemporary Beijing. Her Mother (Li Xiaoran) and her Father (Qin Hao) are busy, thirty-some...

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Review

GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF is a feature length documentary about Scientology made by Alex Gibney. It examines the experiences o...

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Ted 2 Review

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he’s a person in a court o...

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The Emperor’s New Clothes Review

I like Russell Brand. I like Michael Winterbottom…and I like capitalism. So THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES was a must-see in my book. Would the Brand and W...

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Jurassic World Review

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally en...

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Aloha

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling f...

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Partisan Review

Eleven-year-old Alexander lives in a blasted landscape of old, concrete buildings with a Soviet feel. There is the occasional person living in shacks ...

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Spy

Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner fall...

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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...