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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Review

People like magic. Some people. I hate magic because I have no soul. I also don’t enjoy the singing of Julie Andrews for the same reason. (Sound of Mu...

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Jack the Giant Slayer Review

With a budget that makes the towering giants look small, does Jack the Giant Slayer deliver? X-Men director Bryan Singer raises enough money to save a...

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Broken City

The opening scene in this film grasped my attention and I found myself fully immersed in the narrative. From then on, I felt almost let down as the re...

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Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai

Taking a step back (or perhaps forward) from his action-packed bloodbath 13 Assassins (2010/11) Japanese director Takashi Miike brings us the subtle, ...

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Great Expectations Review

Based on the Charles Dicken’s novel comes this faithful adaptation with Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch in a...

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Oz: The Great and Powerful Review

A small-time magician with dubious ethics is hurled off to an enchanting land, where he encounters three witches, as well as the opportunity to transf...

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West of Memphis Review

A new documentary exploring the story of the West Memphis Three, a reference to the three teens (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley) w...

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Beautiful Creatures Review

Supernatural teen romance based on the best-selling fantasy novel, co-starring Oscar veterans Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis. Set in the ...

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The Paperboy Review

Nicole Kidman pees on the all-singing-all-dancing kid from High School Musical – what is the world coming to? I knew nothing of The Paperboy when I st...

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Safe Haven Review

Katie, a young woman with a mysterious past, lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret t...

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The Sweeney

Come with me to the 1970s, folks. Back to the hard justice of UK crime telly. Back to a time when The Professionals protected Britain from threats int...

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Anna Karenina Review

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The sto...

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Lincoln

In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the Civil War, unite the country and abo...

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Review

Imagine Hansel and Gretel from Grimm’s fairytales, only they’re not children anymore but adults!  Adults with kickass weapons. No, wait, hot movie sta...

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a military term meaning half past midnight – the timing of the actual mission to locate and eliminate, Osama bin Laden. The term a...

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Silver Linings Playbook Review

Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence: Bipolar has never looked so sexy. Being the first film since Million Dollar Bab...

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Django Unchained Review

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained follows a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him with German-bo...

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The Impossible Review

Eight years after one of the world’s most devastating natural disasters on record, comes the first film about the Boxing Day South East Asian Tsunami....

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Flight Review

Robert Zemeckis brings us his first live action film since Cast Away (2000) opting, yet again, for a plane crash aftermath scenario, but sadly neglect...

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Hitchcock

HITCHCOCK is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. Th...

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