Music/Film/TV

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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Starsuckers Review: Plenty Of Bluster But No Substance

Music/Film/TV

Director: Chris Atkins. Cast: Max Clifford and Richard Curtis. Starsuckers provides an insight into the highly complicated, converging world of media and public relations. The documentary shows us the murky side of journalism and how the truth is often very far removed from what makes it into print. The biggest success of Starsuckers is its

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Babes In Hollywood TV Review: The Exploitation Of Children’s Dreams

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Babes In Hollywood is one of the strangest television experiences you are likely to encounter. To say that the Hollywood child ‘star’ industry is odd is a serious understatement. This documentary shows an industry that is almost exclusively based on deception and false promises.

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

Film Review

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

Film Review

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

Film Review

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

Film Review

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

Film Review

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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