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Review: The Scopia Effect – “The scare effects are subtle and creeptastic”

Posted by on Feb 12, 2016 in All, Film, horror, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

The Scopia Effect is written and directed by first-timer Christopher Butler, stars newcomer Joanna Ignaczewska, and is released on DVD in...

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Review: Goosebumps

Review: Goosebumps

Posted by on Feb 12, 2016 in action, All, Books, comedy, Film, horror, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Please don’t hate me for being indifferent to Goosebumps back in my days as a preteen. When R.L. Stine’s series of children’s horror...

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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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Review: The Finest Hours – Nautical Nausea in IMAX

Posted by on Feb 8, 2016 in action, All, Film, Reviews, romance, thriller | 0 comments

It may surprise you to learn that I’m not a fan of 3D cinema. It gives me motion sickness. So imagine my delight when I discovered that my...

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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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Blu-ray Review: Sicario

Blu-ray Review: Sicario

Posted by on Feb 3, 2016 in action, All, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

When you’re watching a gripping thriller like Sicario, set within America’s war on drugs on the border with Mexico, its intricate...

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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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Blu-ray Review: Macbeth – “A visual feast”

Blu-ray Review: Macbeth – “A visual feast”

Posted by on Jan 31, 2016 in All, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Macbeth. Macbeth. Macbeth. Classic Shakespeare that has had numerous stage and film adaptations. The latest is directed by Justin Kurzel...

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