Parks and Recreation’s Chris Pratt almost single-handedly redeems this predictable high-school-reunion drama, his boorish family man bagging the best lines and a wince-inducing karaoke routine.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: 10 Years (12)
Best not to eat anything during David Cronenberg’s queasy, exploding-heads horror from 1981. Hammy, often unsettling, performances abound (Patrick McGoohan in particular) in this wild tale of scanners, a group of psychics who can lock into a person’s nervous system and make their head pop.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: Scanners (18)
Barnaby Southcombe’s funereally paced but inventively lit oddity stars Charlotte Rampling (the director’s mother) as a lonely divorcée who after hooking up with a rotter at a speed-dating event, goes back to his Barbican flat and smashes his head in.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: I, Anna (15)
Scene stealer Christopher Walken, once again, appears to be acting in an entirely different film (a better one) in Martin McDonagh’s absurd but entertaining black comedy.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: Seven Psychopaths (15)
“I am surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin,” maintains a haughty don in Harold Pinter’s deft adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: Accident (PG)
What Richard Did is a small but intense piece of psychological drama about pampered teenagers from a well-heeled district of south Dublin.
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If the Lord of the Rings trilogy didn’t exist, then Peter Jackson’s bloated fantasy blockbuster would seem impressive indeed.
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DVD review: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
BBC’s wildly successful Sunday-night entertainment is certainly preferable to the cloying Lark Rise to Candleford and it doesn’t flinch at portraying domestic abuse in late 1950s Poplar.
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DVD & Blu-ray review: Call the Midwife: Series 2 (12)
Harold Pinter’s vicious dissection of class, sex and power still unnerves 50 years on. James Fox is exquisitely louche as the aristocratic Tony who requires a manservant to tend to his needs and Chelsea home
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DVD & Blu-ray review: The Servant (15)
JRR Tolkien’s sweet, 320-page fantasy has presumably been turned into a monstrous three-part film in order to make as much moolah as possible.
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