Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

By Joe Fraser

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

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Four Lions

Four Lions

By Lisa Keddie

Superior satirical comedy is very hard to come by – and even harder when it tackles tricky topics like religion, especially fundamentalist Islam in the UK today, a subject so hot that others dare not touch.

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Cemetery Junction

Cemetery Junction

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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 search of more exciting lives.

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Repo Men

Repo Men

By Alex Peace

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 manufacturing artificial mechanical body parts available to the general public.

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Dear John

Dear John

By Joe Fraser

Dear John’s signature style of over-simplifying and repeating everything leaves no room for subtlety or duality of meaning but sometimes that’s exactly what is called for.

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The Scouting Book For Boys

The Scouting Book For Boys

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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 gravitas.

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The Blind Side

The Blind Side

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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 is just not good filmmaking.

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Perrier’s Bounty

Perrier’s Bounty

By Joe Fraser

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

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Centurion

Centurion

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Neil Marshall has now developed a distinctive cinematic voice and he’s showing the older players that there can be other ways of doing things.

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Whip It

Whip It

By Sarah Wayman

It was refreshing to watch a mainstream flick where women were calling the shots, both in front of and behind the camera. A genuinely funny, feel good coming of age film.

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