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Kick-Ass (DVD)
A new kind of superhero movie?
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The superhero movie has reached something of a stalemate of late, either being incredibly dark and ponderous, or so light and breezy they’ve tipped into farce, so Kick-Ass proposes something new – a film that’s...
Posted September 7, 2010 Read More
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Metropolis (Reconstructed and Restored)
The classic returns in an even more complete form
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One of the most visually thrilling, baffling and technically marvellous films in cinema’s...
Posted September 6, 2010 Read More
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Let Him Have It (DVD)
'A compelling piece of British cinema'
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It is a strange truth that even today, more than 40 years after hanging was abolished, opinion polls consistently show that a majority of Britons would support the restoration of the death penalty. One wonders if they...
Posted September 6, 2010 Read More
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Hot Tub Time Machine (DVD)
All the fun of going back to the 80s
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The latest entry in Hollywood's tradition of high-concept but low-brow comedies, Hot Tub Time Machine, taps into the current ironic-nostalgic trend of revisiting the 1980s. When Lou (Rob Corddry) drives...
Posted September 6, 2010 Read More
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The 7th Dimension (DVD)
Too many Matrix-like ideas to work?
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University student Kate is enjoying a night out with her friend Zoe, until Zoe tells her that she's quitting her course so that she can commit to her relationship with her tutor, Malcolm. Together Kate and Zoe walk...
Posted September 6, 2010 Read More
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Repo Men (DVD)
'Unoriginal but pretty good fun nevertheless'
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It goes to show how the likes of Hostel and Saw have changed the landscape of cinema. I mean here we are with a film about people who hunt others down to steal body parts and yet it’s almost entirely...
Posted September 3, 2010 Read More
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Certified Copy
Did Juliette Binoche derserve her Cannes Best Actress win?
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In 1995 Richard Linklater wrote and directed the delightful Before Sunrise, a film consisting of little more than a man and woman wandering...
Posted September 2, 2010 Read More
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Whip It! (DVD)
Drew Barrymore skates it up in her directorial debut
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It’s an all too common story. One minute you’re a little girl talking to an alien, then you’re a teenaged party animal before next becoming a popular romantic comedy lead. Now brace yourself for...
Posted September 2, 2010 Read More
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A Boy Called Dad (DVD)
Kids having kids and running away with them
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Robbie is just 14 years old, and has fathered a child with one of his classmates. Bad at sports and unpopular at school, he fills his spare time by being a troublemaker. One day when he's running away from...
Posted September 1, 2010 Read More
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Down Terrace (DVD)
'Proof that there's still life in the British crime genre yet'
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Organised criminal Karl has just been acquitted in court, for a deed that is never revealed to us. The film begins as he returns with his father (and the brains of the operation) Bill to his home in Brighton...
Posted September 1, 2010 Read More
 
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