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Love Birds (2011)

Love Birds (2011)
A paint-by-numbers avian rom-com, Love Birds is an amiable if clichéd genre effort which never quite takes flight. It’s got a cute enough concept: schlubby boy meets duck, duck needs vet, vet falls for boy – and voila! Romance ensues. When Harry Met Drake this ain’t, however. Given...
February 6th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Midnight in Paris (2011)
Woody Allen’s recent output can best be described as inconsistent. Only fleetingly finding the unique comedic essence which made his previous work so gratifying, Midnight in Paris see’s Allen take a much safer approach, imbuing his narrative with a fantasy element which allows him to take...
February 6th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Ben Hur (2010)

Ben Hur (2010)
The grandiose entertainment of a good old sword and sandals tale has never really waned in popularity over the years. Of course, sometimes there’s a resurgence (I think we can all point to Gladiator this time around even though it is over a decade old now) but it tends to be a solid time-filler...
February 4th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

First Squad (2009)

First Squad (2009)
First Squad is an animated Russian/Japanese/Canadian co-production. The Russians provided the story and the Japanese provided the animation – what the Canadians did, I have no idea. Maybe they provided the funding? It is a short movie for a predominantly teenage audience about the role of the supernatural...
February 4th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

One Day (2011)

One Day (2011)
Based on David Nicholls’ eponymous novel and directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig, One Day is a heartbreaking romance that spans over twenty years and stars Christopher Nolan’s future Catwoman, Anne Hathaway alongside Jim Sturgess (Heartless, Upside Down). Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter...
February 4th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Hamlet At Elsinore (1964)

Hamlet At Elsinore (1964)
Being a native Dane, it is a special thrill for me to see a Hamlet adaptation actually shot at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore – a castle that was newly built in Shakespeare’s day, and has an entire church built into it. I have been to the castle several times, so I recognize the halls, the [...]
February 2nd, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

30 Minutes or Less (2011)

30 Minutes or Less (2011)
At some point down the line, 30 Minutes or Less must have looked like a great idea for a movie. It brought together top comic talent in Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride, a rising star in Jesse Eisenberg, his Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer and a novel concept whereby the lead character has a bomb strapped...
February 1st, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Rolling Thunder (1977)

Rolling Thunder (1977)
In 1976 Paul Schrader authored Taxi Driver, cinema’s great coming home story about ‘Nam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), who returns from duty to an atrophying city submersed in sewage, where life-size rats in pimp masks are selling underage girls to yuppie degenerates. New York has...
January 30th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Warning: this review contains spoilers! John le Carré knows a thing or two about spying. Between 1960 – 1964 the acclaimed author worked as an intelligence officer for MI6 (following two years service at MI5), having his career swiftly curtailed when Cambridge Five defector Kim Philby outed British...
January 30th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) has been married to his high school sweetheart for 25 years. His world falls apart and he jumps out of a moving vehicle after his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) suddenly announces that she wants a divorce and confesses that she slept with another man. Meanwhile, good-looking ladies...
January 30th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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