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The Hunger Games – Feeding The Fire
The subtitle of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is perhaps somewhat misleading. Certainly in a literal sense, anyway. The first adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ multi-part tweenage-fight-to-the-death-dystopia, caught fire when Th...
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Pi – 15th Anniversary Edition
Darren Aronofsky‘s feature debut Pi certainly hasn’t been dulled by the passage of time. Requiem For A Dream might outgun it for sheer intensity; The Fountain may deal in more sweeping, existential brushstrokes; whi...
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Hansel & Gretel : Witch Hunters
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Or so the old adage goes. It must be said, however, Tommy Wirkola‘s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters never even looked much on paper; and regrettably, the finished film is unlikely...
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Foxy Brown
After 39 years of roaming the standard definition-wilderness, Foxy Brown is finally given the chance to strut its stuff in sparkling HD. Certainly, it’s a culture clash of some irony – releasing a film famed for its...
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Man Of Steel’s Seeds Of Justice
On June 14th Zack Snyder‘s darker, moodier Superman takes to the skies. And by June 14th, we will know whether Warner Bros/DC’s $225 million reboot is made out of steel or Styrofoam. But whether Henry Cavill blasts ...
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The Good Doctor
Plausibility is a nebulous concept at the best of times. Yet, whatever the context – from the ordinary and every day, to the bizarre and otherworldly – cinema strives always to convince; to make its audience believe...
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Bullet To The Head
Fittingly, Bullet To The Head begins in a burnt-out, sepia palette. And while wholly insignificant in narrative terms, it’s almost as though Walter Hill is visibly winking from behind the camera lens – as if to say ...
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The Numbers Station
It’s always slightly unfortunate when the first moments you spend with a new film are spent remembering something similar. It’s even more unfortunate, when the similarities emanate from a film starring the same acto...
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The Facility
Tapping into most people’s primal fear of hospitals, The Facility shuns the more fanciful horror trappings, and places us in a readily identifiable setting. But if the setting is readily identifiable, the context is somew...
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The Expatriate
By Louis Trythall The Expatriate certainly wastes little time with lengthy introductions. Opening with a cut-and-thrust raid, Philipp Stölzl dispenses with formalities and cuts right to the chase. Barely sixty seconds in, and w...
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