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Den of Thieves
You may be able to take the boy out of Paisley, but taking Paisley out of the boy proves harder. So it’s refreshing to see Gerard Butler back to his badass best as a swaggering douchebag cop taking the fight to a gang of swagge...
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The Iceman
The killer is huge, 6’4 1/2″, 300 pounds of hard muscle running to fat. Dark, almost black, eyes stare implacably at you from under heavy, sleepy lids. There’s no mercy, no feeling in those eyes; he’s a black hole...
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Blood
In a shabby, nameless, seaside town the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl has dark consequences for cop brothers Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie Fairbairn (Stephen Graham). After finding voyeuristic photos of the victim and ...
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Byzantium
Forget the teen angst of the Twilight saga’s emasculated sparkle fairies or the curiously sexless (despite being clad in sprayed-on rubber!) werewolf-battling Matrix-rejects of the Underworld series – vampire tales are all abou...
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The Hangover Part 3
Don’t you find humour is such an over-rated quality in comedy? Thank God then for Todd Phillips who’s managed to free us from the tyranny of laughter, nailing the coffin lid down on his Hangover trilogy with the anti-comedy Th...
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The Liability
A swaggering, immature waster and petty criminal, Adam (Jack O’Connell) is the titular ‘liability.’ After crashing his gangster stepfather Peter’s (Peter Mullan) car, Adam is forced to take on a little job to pay for the damag...
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Upstream Color
Sundance London Review Imagine for a moment gentle reader that you’re on holiday. You’re on holiday in Switzerland. You’re having a rare old time; it’s a veritable non-stop orgy of yodelling, fondue and Toblerones. Then, dee...
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Star Trek Into Darkness (3D)
***Spoiler Free*** Before this review boldly goes where few others are likely to go given the near universal wave of critical love the film is currently surfing, it’s important to note that Jar Jar Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkne...
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Dead Man Down
Slick crime boss Alphonse (Terrence Howard) isn’t having the best of days. Someone is playing mind games with him, sending him cryptic threats, and now his most trusted men are turning up dead. During a violent shoot-out with...
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Dragon
When mild-mannered paper maker Liu Jinxi (Donnie Yen) intervenes during the robbery of the village general store by two notorious bandits he arouses the suspicions of inquisitive detective Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who’s been sent...
