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14 September 2008Film Review: Swing Vote + With pretty much the entire press having gone gaga for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama during his European tour back at the end of July, it's unlikely that many people will be unaware that there's another one of those American election things coming up pretty soon – November, to be precise. -
14 September 2008Film Review: Death Race + It is somewhat bizarre that two directors with the same name should have such wildly divergent critical perceptions. -
14 September 2008Film Review: Tropic Thunder + Ben Stiller is way up there as one of Hollywood's most successful comedians of the last ten years, as well as one of the most prolific. -
14 September 2008Film Review: Righteous Kill + For any fans of American cinema from the last forty years, there are three principle giants of the screen: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson. -
13 September 2008Film Review: The Women + Over the last couple of decades, the battle for women's lib seemed to many to have been won. -
13 September 2008Film Review: Pineapple Express + There's been a sizable, if not quite noble, tradition of stoner comedies in American cinema going back the last forty years or more. -
13 September 2008Film Review: The Duchess + Keira Knightley is undeniably beautiful, of that there has been little argument since she first appeared on the public radar with 2002's Bend It Like Beckham. -
13 September 2008Film Review: RocknRolla + It's hard not to feel just a little bit sorry for Guy Richie. -
15 August 2008Film Review: Step Brothers + Will Ferrell's place as one of Hollywood's favourite comedians is, these days, pretty much secure. He may well have made a fair few duds – Bewitched and Kicking and Screaming (both 2005) spring to mind – but he's also the man responsible for one of the funniest movies of recent years, 2004's Anchorman. -
15 August 2008Film Review: Hellboy II: The Golden Army + There's a good chance that, of all the many dozens of superhero movies released during the last few years, Hellboy is the one you haven't seen. -
10 August 2008Film Review: Get Smart + After the glut of remakes of 1960s TV shows back in the late nineties (Mission: Impossible, The Avengers, Maverick, Wild Wild West, etc.) churned out more duds than hits, it seemed as if Hollywood had since given up on the idea. -
10 August 2008Film Review: You Don’t Mess With The Zohan 1 For those of us who just don't find Adam Sandler funny, and who have seen no merit to date in any of his movie offerings, his continued Hollywood success is inexplicable. -
10 August 2008Film Review: Star Wars – The Clone Wars + The three Star Wars prequels still divide fans of the original trilogy. -
27 July 2008Film Review: The Mummy – Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 3 When the first Mummy film came out nearly a decade ago, many film fans approached it with a sense of deep trepidation. -
27 July 2008Film Review: The X-Files – I Want to Believe + It's nearly fifteen years since Mulder and Scully first burst onto our screens, creating one of the TV fads of the nineties. -
27 July 2008Film Review: The Love Guru + Ever since his big screen breakthrough with the comedy classic Wayne’s World back in 1992, Mike Myers has been Hollywood gold. -
21 June 2008Film Review: Mamma Mia! 1 If, a few years ago during the height of his James Bond-inspired superstardom, you’d told Pierce Brosnan that his next genuine global smash hit was going to be a musical, he’d probably have called security.... -
21 June 2008The Dark Knight: One of Heath Ledger’s final films reviewed 2 When news emerged of Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger's untimely accidental death back in January this year, many film fans were shocked by the loss of such a promising, rising star whose portrayal of a closeted gay man changed perceptions of homosexuality across the world. -
21 June 2008Film Review: Baby Mama + You might well think: "This is another one of those chick flicks about a thirty-something woman trying to juggle a career and independence with the tick-tock of her biological clock...." -
21 June 2008Film Review: City of Men + Don’t be fooled by the fact that City of Men is being released by Disney’s grown-up arm Buena Vista – this is about as far from a Disney flick as you could hope to get.
