Music/Film/TV

Sherlock Holmes A Game Of Shadows Film Review: Light Entertainment

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Director: Guy Ritchie. Cast: Robert Downey Junior, Jude Law and Jared Harris. Entertaining and well-acted A Game Of Shadows places Sherlock Holmes on well-defined territory while also taking the iconic figure along untried paths.

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The Descendants Film Review: A Wonderful Insight Into A Family In Crisis

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Director: Alexander Payne. Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Nick Krause. The Descendants is a powerfully emotive film whose precise execution ensures that the viewer is never witness to mawkish sentimentality in an extremely human story with family at its heart.

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Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Film Review: Action-Filled But With A Cost

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Director: Brad Bird. Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, And Simon Pegg. Tom Cruise once more stars in the Mission Impossible franchise with a film that chooses action over plot.

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The Iron Lady Film Review: Margaret Thatcher As You Have Never Seen Her Before

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Director: Phyllida Lloyd. Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Alexander Roach. The Iron Lady is a soft focus look at the life of Margaret Thatcher. If the director Phyllida Lloyd set out to make Thatcher likeable then she certainly went a long way towards succeeding.

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Pearl Jam Twenty Film Review: One For The Fans

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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

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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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