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Going the Distance

Going the Distance is a sharp romantic comedy that paints a truthful and funny picture of what it’s like to have a long distance relationship.

Tamara Drewe

The countryside calm is abruptly ended by the return of the prodigal village girl Tamara ā€“ a once homely child who has now blossomed into a beautiful, successful journalist.

Cyrus

Although starring Reilly and Hill, and co-produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, Cyrus is a surprisingly low-budget slice of American independent filmmaking.

The Last Exorcism

This slightly tongue-in-cheek horror takes us modern cynics at our word, and presents us with an exorcist who no more believes in demons than Richard Dawkins believes in deities.

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Salandar is an exceptional representation of a survivor, and Rapace conveys both sourness and steeliness, without ever losing the empathy of the audience.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Based on the illustrated novel of the same name, itself based on a series of online cartoons, Jeff Kinneyā€™s Diary of a Wimpy Kid arrives in the cinema in live action form.

Marmaduke

If someone ever writes a book on talking dog movies, a footnote on Marmaduke would be generous.

Cherry Tree Lane

For how long can Paul Andrew Williams ride on the coat tails of his debut film From London to Brighton? On the evidence of this, his third feature film offering, the novelty is wearing thin.

The Expendables

It is the kind of question that is often bandied about; if you could choose the dream cast for an action film (and you can pick anyone) who would you pick?

Much of the redeeming comedy and humanity of Knight and Day must be attributed to Mangold, whose recent directorial success has derived from more subtle offerings such as Girl Interrupted and Walk the Line.

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Kick-Ass

Realism is turned way down, the violence dial is stuck on 11, and all is adorned with a vibrant technicolour....

Four Lions

Superior satirical comedy is very hard to come by ā€“ and even harder when it tackles tricky topics like religion, especially fundamentalist Islam in the...

Cemetery Junction

Dripping with nostalgia, Cemetery Junction centres on three working class lads in their early twenties who want to break free from their small hometown in...

Repo Men

It is the not too distant future and multinational conglomerate The Union have made organ donors and waiting lists a thing of the past, by...

Dear John

Dear Johnā€™s signature style of over-simplifying and repeating everything leaves no room for subtlety or duality of meaning but sometimes thatā€™s exactly what is called...

The Scouting Book For Boys

It longs, unashamedly, to be a quirky, parochial indie-comedy, whilst striving, also, to hit those Loach, Leigh and Meadows notes of gritty slice-of-life...

The Blind Side

I was in awe of this movie; stunned. Stunned that it had made it to the big screen, let alone the Oscars. The Blind Side...

Perrier’s Bounty

The best stories, characters, images and ideas persist in the mind when the credits roll, but Perrierā€™s Bounty meekly expires as the screen fades to...