Film Review

Withnail And I Film Review: The Tragicomic Masterpiece

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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Oranges And Sunshine Film Review: A Troubled Truth Comes To Light

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Director: Jim Loach. Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham and Hugo Weaving. Oranges and Sunshine deals with a horrific theme the deportation of British children from the care of the state to Australia. This is a difficult subject matter to watch and even more difficult to portray on screen. The great danger with such issues is

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Super 8 Film Review: The New And Improved ET

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Director: JJ Abrams. Cast: Joel Courtney, Ellie Fanning, Riley Griffiths and Ron Livingston. With Super 8 comes the 21st century version of ET but this is a vastly different film in execution and aesthetics. Although for many people the 1980′s film will reign supreme, Super 8 is superior in nearly all facets excepting the wonderful

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Senna Film Review: A Life Lived On The Edge

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Director: Asif Kapadia. Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, and Ron Dennis. Senna manages to raise the standards of the sports documentary and trumps the other sporting film of the year, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, in doing so. Full of interesting characters with large egos, the film provides unprecedented access to the intoxicating world of

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Bridesmaids Film Review: A Movie That Justifies Its Hype

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Director: Paul Feig. Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd and Melissa McCarthy. Bridesmaids is a highly entertaining film that is peppered with comical incidents, providing a very enjoyable cinematic experience. The movie centres on Annie, a thirty-something year old former cake shop owner, who is undergoing a difficult period in her life. Her best

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Tree Of Life Film Review: Easier To Destroy Than Create

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Director: Terrence Mallick. Cast: Brad Pitt, Hunter McCracken, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. Tree Of Life is an engrossing film, with a good story at its heart, but is pockmarked by being bookended by pretentious self-indulgence on the director’s behalf.

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The Guard Film Review: An Enjoyable But Mistake-Strewn Movie

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Director: John Michael McDonagh. Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle and Liam Cunningham. The Guard finds an FBI agent and local Garda Sergeant teaming up to stop a trio of drug dealers from bringing in a half a billion dollar drugs haul into Ireland. Along the way, the duo encounter multiple murders, an idiosyncratic public and

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Hanna Film Review: The Harbinger Of The Future

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Director: Joe Wright. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett. Hanna is a film that commands your attention right from the start. Once the screen flickers into existence the viewer is instantly caught up in its strange, alienating world.

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