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Cuban Fury
The dance floor is a welcome space for exercising demons; lust, regret, redemption have been stomped and swirled across those tiles in many a movie, and Cuban Fury makes no exception. The inebriated creation of a fearless Nick ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich.” These words resound loudly over the 506 curses that pepper Martin Scorsese’s greedy account of a self made Wall Street monster, which has Leonardo DiCaprio gurn, snort a...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
As with the second of many trilogies, especially depicting a story already told, The Desolation of Smaug exists to pave the way to what will be an undoubtedly epic final chapter. Now comfortably in the company of 13 dwarves and...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The original Hunger Games left with an unashamed set up for a sequel. As a triumphant Katniss raises hands with her co winner Peeta under the brooding glare of second love interest Gale, the tone is already set for plenty more ...
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The Counsellor
Ridley Scott’s lavish film of Cormac McCarthy’s The Counsellor is a flamboyant and baffling account of a wealthy businessman caught in the murky depths of shady dealings. This is McCarthy’s screenwriting debut, and with a thron...
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Turbo
Of the many stories to pass through Dreamwork’s doors over the years, Turbo, about a snail who dreams of being a racer, certainly sounds like one of the more charming. Voiced by the eternally po-faced Ryan Reynolds, slow moving...
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Prince Avalanche
David Gordon Green’s latest tale of obscure male camaraderie proves that there is seldom a sight more brutal than Paul Rudd in tears. Widely hailed as the nicest guy in the business, Rudd has transformed from youthful, wholeso...
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The Way Way Back
Academy Award winning writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash – for their work on Alexander Payne’s The Descendants – make their directorial debut with The Way Way Back, an Adventureland-esque tale of a teen recluse (Liam James) w...
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Elysium
Elysium is not the first film about a space craft launched into the stratosphere to preserve the quality of human life, as anyone who saw Christian Alvart’s Pandorum in 2009 will confirm. A film about social discrimination betw...
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
The wrath of the young adult franchise continues with Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the second and clearly not last instalment in Fox’s big screen treatment of Rick Riordan’s demi god series. Those that have not seen its pred...
