Music/Film/TV

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

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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Starsuckers Review: Plenty Of Bluster But No Substance

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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

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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