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Fun Size Review

The new Halloween, family comedy film FUN SIZE is a bit of a mixed bag. It’s trick or treat as it’s target audience is primary school kids and their p...

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Breaking Dawn Part 2

The final and highly anticipated installment for the Twilight saga has finally hit cinemas. With teen girls excited to see Jacob (played by Taylor Lau...

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower Review

It’s 1991 and academically precocious, socially awkward Charlie is a wallflower, always watching from the sidelines, until a pair of charismatic...

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Pitch Perfect

The new comedy flick PITCH PEFECT is laugh-out-loud funny with a bit of drama thrown in the mix. Although I’m not a fan of typical teenage coming-of-a...

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Robot And Frank

Set in the near future, Frank, a man with the early signs of dementia receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But s...

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Seven Psychopaths

A Los Angeles-set crime comedy involving a screenwriter, the criminal underworld, and one gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu. Marty  is a struggling wr...

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End of Watch

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routin...

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The Sessions

Audience Award winner at Sundance 2012, the true story of a man paralysed from the neck down, determined to lose his virginity at the age of 38 – with...

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Argo

A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. The I...

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Frankenweenie

From creative genius Tim Burton (“Alice in Wonderland,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas”) comes Frankenweenie, a heartwarming ...

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Dredd 3D

The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One- a vast, violent metropoli...

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Lawless Review

Set in Virginia during the depression, and based on the true story of the Bondurants brothers – three rural bootleggers who defied the crooked a...

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To Rome With Love Review

I rate Woody Allen the king of hit and miss. In his 40+ years as a screenwriter and director he has divided audiences and somehow created both modern ...

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Killing Them Softly – Review

 When their illegal card game is held up, and the life blood of the criminal economy is on the verge of collapse, the mafia calls in enforcer Jackie C...

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Taken 2 Review

Taken sparked a four-year love affair between Liam Neeson and I (one-sided though the love affair is…). Needless to say Taken 2 was marked as a highli...

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Mental Review

When Shirley Moochmore, the mother of five girls is committed to a mental institution, her husband Barry picks up Shaz, an eccentric and inspiring hit...

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Looper Review

In a world where time travel is possible, but deemed illegal, Joe a ‘looper’, a gun-for-hire whose targets are sent to him from the future...

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Ruby Sparks Review

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. ...

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Hotel Transylvania Review

If there’s one genre of film I am really excited about, it’s animation.  No, seriously. Having arguably evolved more than any other type of film in th...

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The Watch Review

Film critics. You gotta love ‘em. They have their place on this earth aiding the indecisive movie-goer in their quest for a good night’s entertainment...