The Grey
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Review: If you've never survived a plane crash only to be pursued by a pack of bloodthirsty wolves whilst bracing a bitter Alaskan blizzard, tired, afraid and hungry, you need to see The Grey. It may not be as informative as Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls, but it's fascinating in a White Fang meets Alive kind of way.
Liam Neeson joins The A-Team director Joe Carnahan again to bring us a survival adventure and thriller comparable with The Edge starring Anthony Hopkins. The Grey, based on the short stor...
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Take Shelter
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Review: Michael Shannon is quickly becoming everyone's favourite crazy guy. He has real on-screen presence and the smarts to carry the lead in just about any film. He impressed with the stage-to-screen adaptation of Bug and delivers more of that psychological intensity in Take Shelter, a surreal character portrait about an everyman whose apocolyptic nightmares are beginning to take root in his waking life.Think Revolutionary Road meets Twister, with a strain of Noah and the Ark in this arthouse thriller...
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The Hunger Games
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Review: The Hunger Games is old hat. We've seen our fair share of films involving a group of children, forced to do combat in a confined area in a kill-or-be-killed situation. Suzanne Collins has just commericialised the format made famous by William Golding's Lord of the Flies, writing a novel that has enough human interest and viral appeal to capture a young adult readership and broader film audience.
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is the source, a novel which pitted a stranded choir of British ...
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Man on a Ledge
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Review: Man on a Ledge stars Sam Worthington, whose robotic acting is best forgotten in blockbusters such as Avatar, Clash of the Titans and best remembered in Terminator: Salvation, where he was actually part cyborg. As you can imagine with any movie where the lead character wants to commit robot suicide off a high-rise building - expectations were low.
Thankfully relatively unknown director Asger Leth and TV movie screenwriter, Pablo F. Fenjves have managed to negotiate a pretty decent thriller with ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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Review: David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... didn't they adapt the Millenium trilogy just two years ago? Why didn't they cast Noomi Rapace, the 'Girl' from the original? Is it a faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel? So many questions...
The original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was excellent and deserved its critical acclaim, but it wasn't in English, relegating it to a limited art house international release. While shooting on-location and in the native tongue added to the aut...
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Apollo 18
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Review: In the same low budget found footage horror subgenre as The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity comes Apollo 18. The horror science-fiction thriller plays up the fact that the U.S. has never returned to the moon and shows evidence to suggest that there may just be signs of alien activity on the moon.
Apollo 18 is directed by Spanish editor-turn-director, Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. It's Lopez-Gallego's first English language film and while his editorial experience may give him an edge, it's ...
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Straw Dogs
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Review: The original Straw Dogs, directed by the legendary Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman is a controversial classic, notorious for its brutal "pleasure rape" scene, ultra-violence and previously banned video release status. Hoffman said he only did it for the money and from the outset, it seems that the new Straw Dogs adaptation remake may have had a similar motive.
Not true. Talented film critic-turn-director Rod Lurie, the man behind The Contender, The Last Castle and Nothing But The Trut...
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Contagion
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Review: Sure, a killer disease that resembles the symptoms of the common flu (except for the dying part) probably doesn’t sound like the most thrilling movie concept ever imagined, but Contagion’s success sprouts from much more than that. The first thing this risky film has got going for it is director Steven Soderbergh, best known for very serious movies like ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Syriana’, as well as some delicious off-beat humour such as in films like ‘Oceans Thirteen’ an...
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Final Destination 5 [3D]
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Review: Final Destination 5... the franchise has come a long way - relying on a tried-and-tested roller-coaster formula that brings audiences back for another thrill ride. The Final Destination, or fourth installment of the series was a serious low - delivering extra cheese with a gimmicky aftertaste that just ruined whatever credibility Final Destination had racked up since 2000. So it was a sweet relief that the latest edition, Final Destination 5, has come back with a vengeance to leave on a high not...
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Sanctum [3D]
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Review: James Cameron is a name that has become synonymous with action blockbusters: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Aliens and Avatar have all been directed by the Hollywood juggernaut. Before Avatar revolutionised 3D technology and broke records at the box office, Cameron was investigating the deep. Deep space has fascinated the director, but deep sea has been just as integral to his career path.Titanic relayed life on the famous vessel before it plunged to the darkest depths, Aliens of the Dee...
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