Film Review

Pearl Jam Twenty Film Review: One For The Fans

Director: Cameron Crowe. Cast: Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament. Pearl Jam Twenty is a interesting documentary into the famous rock band, Pearl Jam. Luckily for director, Cameron Crowe, he happens to have been on the scene since the band’s formation in the early 1990’s.

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The Way Back Film Review: The Journey Of Several Lifetimes

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Director: Peter Weir. Cast: Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturges and Saoirse Ronan. The Way Back documents the gruelling hardships endured by those held captive by Stalin’s communist prison camps as they escape their entrapment. The group swaps one form of tyranny for another as they are subjected to the devastating effects of an indifferent

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When Eight Bells Toll Film Review: A Real James Bond

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Director: Etienne Périer. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Mortley and Natalie Delon. When Eight Bells Toll is an exceptionally well-made film that is almost flawless in its gritty portrayal of British Intelligence operative, Philip Calvert.

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The Blind Side Film Review: Sentimentality On Overdrive

Director: John Lee Hancock. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head and Tim McGraw. Based on a true story, The Blind Side tells the account of a god-fearing, tough-talking, peroxide-blonde mother who decides to take a black, high school boy under her wing. The boy becomes part of the family and shares in their daily life.

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The Ides Of March Film Review: A Fresh Take On Politics

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Director: George Clooney. Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamati. The Ides Of March provides a revealing insight into the world of politics. It unearths the sordid nature of the political class, the journalists and campaign mangers that reside on the periphery, and shatters the illusion that individuals can be saintly

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Contagion Film Review: A Few Characters Too Many

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Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damion, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne. Contagion is set in a world in which a seemingly unstoppable mutated virus with a high mortality rate is sweeping all across the Earth. With deaths accruing everywhere, panic runs amok causing normal everyday society to stop functioning as survival

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Midnight In Paris Film Review: A Half-Baked Tourist Guide To Paris

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Director: Woody Allen Cast: Owen Wilson, Naomi Watts and Marion Cottillard. Midnight In Paris is a film that seems to offer a lot but ultimately fails to follow its initial trajectory.

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Withnail And I Film Review: The Tragicomic Masterpiece

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Director: Bruce Robinson. Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths. For a movie to register near the top of many people’s list of favourite films it has to have justifiably received its fair share of plaudits. The 1987 film Withnail and I definitely falls into this category.

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