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Review: Zoolander 2 – “A tragically unfunny cameo factory”

Posted by on Feb 11, 2016 in All, comedy, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Ben Stiller returns to again co-write, star and direct the sequel to 2001’s Zoolander. Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell are also back,...

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Review: Deadpool – “Irreverent, ironic and iconic”

Posted by on Feb 9, 2016 in action, All, comedy, Comics, Film, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

After the awful, awful presentation of the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine — sewing the “merc with a mouth”’s yap shut? Brilliant —...

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Review: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Put Your Preconceptions Away

Posted by on Feb 8, 2016 in All, Books, comedy, drama, Film, horror, romance, thriller | 0 comments

I feel that having entered the cinema to watch Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as an objective viewer – being neither a big...

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DVD Review: The Walk

Posted by on Feb 5, 2016 in action, All, biopic, comedy, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

If you saw and loved James Marsh’s Academy-Award-winning documentary Man On Wire (2008), the possibility of the same story getting the...

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The Big Short review – A dumbed-down documentary

The Big Short review – A dumbed-down documentary

Posted by on Jan 31, 2016 in Books, comedy, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

If you want to dumb down the dense stock market speak of Michael Lewis’s non-fiction book about the credit and housing market crash, what...

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Review: Eddie the Eagle – “Packed full of heart and humour”

Review: Eddie the Eagle – “Packed full of heart and humour”

Posted by on Jan 29, 2016 in biopic, comedy, drama, Film, Reviews, sport | 0 comments

Those of us not around in the Eighties (or those of us too young to be watching the Winter Olympics on TV at least) may not be too...

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Review: Ride Along 2 – “A slap-to-the-face sequel”

Posted by on Jan 22, 2016 in action, All, comedy, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

During Ride Along 2, I noticed a number of people in the audience going to the toilet. ‘They’re going to miss all the jokes’, I thought to...

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Blu-Ray review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Blu-Ray review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Posted by on Jan 18, 2016 in action, All, comedy, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Arrow Video, the masters of making highly collectible and stacked to the gills with bonus material extra-special special editions, turn...

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Review: The Big Short

Review: The Big Short

Posted by on Jan 18, 2016 in All, Books, comedy, drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

When the calendars turned to the year 2000, people seemed pretty optimistic.  Sure, there were problems in the world, as there always are,...

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Blu-Ray Review: Aaaaaaaah! – “Frequently funny, but often bewildering”

Blu-Ray Review: Aaaaaaaah! – “Frequently funny, but often bewildering”

Posted by on Jan 13, 2016 in action, All, comedy, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Steve Oram – writer, director and star of Sightseers – is again a triple threat in Aaaaaaaah!, which he also scripted, helms and takes the...

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