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DVD review: To the Wonder

June 15th, 2013 No comments

Terrence Malick’s improvised reverie on love and commitment in the 21st century is one long dreamy, sun-burnished montage featuring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, and a murmured French voice-over in place of dialogue.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Parks and Recreation: Season 2 (12)

June 14th, 2013 No comments

“I think I need to call child services and have Leslie taken away from herself,” quips Ann (Rashida Jones) to camera. Please don’t. Amy Poehler’s confused, unlucky-in-love Leslie grows to be even more adorable in this excellent US sitcom.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: To the Wonder (15)

June 14th, 2013 No comments

Terrence Malick’s meditation on love and the disintegration of a relationship wafts along to no particular purpose.        

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DVD review: Zero Dark Thirty

June 8th, 2013 No comments

One of the year’s most tedious films, Kathryn Bigelow’s frequently incomprehensible follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker caused some controversy by implying that CIA torture led to the finding of Osama Bin Laden.        

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DVD review: Lincoln

June 8th, 2013 No comments

Rather than being a cradle-to-grave biopic, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is set almost entirely in Washington DC’s parlours and debating chambers in the weeks preceding the crucial vote to abolish slavery.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Zero Dark Thirty (15)

June 7th, 2013 No comments

“Everybody breaks bro, it’s biology,” maintains Jason Clarke’s pitiless CIA interrogator in a gruelling opening torture scene. It sets the unsentimental and discomforting tone for this look at the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden

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DVD & Blu-ray review: I Give It a Year (15)

June 7th, 2013 No comments

Olivia Colman, as an aggressive relationship counsellor, tries valiantly to rescue this contrived, occasionally witty Brit romcom.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: A Good Day to Die Hard (15)

June 7th, 2013 No comments

Die Hard, possibly the most satisfying of all the Eighties actioners, is granted a fifth outing and it’s sloppy.

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DVD review: I Give it a Year

June 1st, 2013 No comments

A Richard Curtis-ian rom-com with a misanthropic twist, I Give it a Year focuses on a pair of newlyweds, Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne, who aren’t sure whether to stay together. The problem is that we aren’t sure, either.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Wreck-It Ralph (PG)

May 31st, 2013 No comments

“I’m nine feet tall, I weigh six hundred and forty three pounds, got a bit of a temper on me,” maintains Wreck-It-Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly), a lonely arcade-game villain who longs for acceptance.        

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