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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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DVD & Blu-ray review: Horrible Histories: Series 4 (PG)

May 31st, 2013 No comments

CBBC’s frequently funny and crude sketch show, which has a mission statement of “making history look less crap”, succeeds in making the past as accessible and enjoyable as possible for children.        

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Blow Out (18)

May 30th, 2013 No comments

Brian De Palma is often derided for being derivative – and Blow Out is partly inspired by Blow Up – but at his best (and this is his best) the director delivers a huge emotional punch.

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Canadian inmates use helicopter for escape worthy of the movies

March 19th, 2013 No comments

Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.Quebec provincial police said later that they had arrested three people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Saint-Jerome jail from which the inmates escaped. One of those arrested was 36-year-old inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Untouchable (15)

February 2nd, 2013 No comments

“That’s what I want. No pity,” explains François Cluzet’s quadriplegic, Paul, to his adviser about his “pitiless” carer, Driss (Omar Sy, very convincing), a Senegalese rough diamond from a La Haine-style estate in Paris.

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Girls: Season 1 (18)

February 2nd, 2013 No comments

Lena Dunham directs, produces, writes, stars and sheds her clothes quite a bit in these tangy adventures of four twentysomething New Yorkers: self-absorbed Hannah (Dunham), uptight Marnie (Allison Williams), promiscuous Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and goofy Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet, very funny).

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DVD & Blu-ray review: Django (15)

February 2nd, 2013 No comments

“You can clear up the mess now but don’t touch my coffin.”

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IoS DVD review: Keith Lemon: The Film

December 9th, 2012 No comments

Leigh Francis’s fake-tanned, sleazy northern businessman, as seen on ITV2’s Celebrity Juice , gets a feature-length caper which will please his fans while baffling and/or disgusting everyone else.

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IoS DVD review: The Expendables 2

December 9th, 2012 No comments

Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger … how can so many pensionable men be involved in a film which seems to have been written by an eight-year-old?

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