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Reviews
Atonement
Stories about absent love during the outbreak of war is not a new subject either on our movie screens or even on our daily news.…
RUN, FATBOY, RUN
David Schwimmer's sluggish directorial debut is a paint by numbers snooze fest. Simon Pegg does his best with what he is given but the slapstick and cheap thrill 'self-decrepitating' humour belongs to Adam Sandler and not Pegg, who is too good for this material.
The Bourne Ultimatum
I've always been rather indifferent to the Jason Bourne series. The first movie back in 2002 was ok but it never went beyond an average…
In The Hands Of The Gods
'In The Hands of the Gods' is an amazing film, I can't put it any more clearly than that. It's not going to be a…
Waitress
It's quite fitting that I saw Waitress only one week after seeing the Judd Apatow comedy Knocked Up as both movies share very similar themes…
Evening
As you can see from the poster, the selling point for 'Evening' is that perennial marketing failsafe - the "stellar cast". Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep,…
Knocked Up
In 2005, Judd Apatow directed a movie which many found to be the funniest comedy in years and I movie I quite liked, The 40…
Disturbia
Before I went to watch this movie I had pretty much just heard two things, it was a “remake of Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’, but for…
The Simpsons Movie
After nearly twenty years and some 400 episodes, everyone's favourite American family The Simpsons finally got the big screen treatment this week in The Simpsons…
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Director Updates
Stephen Soderbergh has made THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE which he has played around festivals. His next studio movie THE INFORMANT, a C.I.A. thriller opens in October starring Matt Damon. His future projects include MONEYBALL with Brad Pitt, a LIBERACE biopic with Michael Douglas but probably not CLEO which he has had trouble financing.
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