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  • The Awakening

    A professionally sceptic author is called upon to expose the mystery of a ghost in a post-WWI boys school. Spookiness naturally occurs and soon we’re treated to an atmospherically compelling (if somewhat less than innovative) creepfest, full to the brim of half-seen spooky children and wandering around in the dark as it heads towards its somewhat disappointing climax.


  • Orange(Wednesday)s and Lemons #45

    As the saying goes, time flies when you’re waiting for Arthur Christmas to come out. HURRAH FOR AN ACTUAL REAL-LIFE CHRISTMAS FILM! Now that the noble despair of Kevin as dissipated, it’s time to joyfully don a lumpy jumper, set your crackers from stun to kill and try and forget that quite a few people are going to watch Immortals instead…


  • Another Earth

    Another Earth is an interesting, confidently-executed film which attempts to deal with the big questions. It succeeds where it touches on authentic human emotion and relationships, but falls down where it tries to be all big and fancy. It does have a pretty cool end shot, though.


  • The Christmas Nativity: Ultimate Film Casting

    There are so many awesome Christmas films out there, each with a unique and viable message. The Grinch teaches us that ‘Christmas means a little bit more’ which is, at the best of times, a tad vague. Elf teaches us that ‘the best way to spread Christmas cheer is by singing loud for all to hear’… but what’s the “cheer factor” really about? We need a NATIVITY, is what we need. Donkeys and innkeepers and paranoid shepherds, to make it all clear. With a celebrity ensemble cast, so it can take on Love Actually in style…


  • WIN: Cars 2 on BLU-RAY x 3

    It’s time to enjoy a brand new adventure with best friends Lightning McQueen and Mater as Cars 2 pulls in to stores exclusively on Disney 3D Blu-ray, Blu-Ray and DVD from 21 November 2011. To celebrate the release, we are giving away a copy of the film on Blu-ray™ to 3 lucky winners!


  • How To Stop Being A Loser

    What would happen if you threw the contents of Hitch, The Inbetweeners Movie and Crazy, Stupid, Love into a blender, whizzed them around for a few minutes and then poured the mixture all over your script? Why you’d get How To Stop Being A Loser of course…


  • Trespass

    Nicolas Cage was apparently so ashamed of Trespass that he refused to watch the final product. Nicolas Cage, of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, of Season Of The Witch, of National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, of The Wicker Man was too ashamed of his film Trespass to watch it. I’ll let that sink in.