The Muppets [2011]

Director: James Bobin

Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones

Rating: 

TOTALLY WORTH THE FOUR MONTHS EXTRA WE IN THE UK HAD TO WAIT!!

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‘Gomorra’ (Gommorrah) – Review

Director: Matteo Garrone

Starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Salvatore Abruzzese, Marco Macor, Ciro Petrone

Rating:

This had all the danger signs.  A critically acclaimed, Cannes award winning, Italian social-realist film, being sold on the Criterion Collection? This sounds as though is going to be so pretentious it’ll make James Cameron look like Gandhi…

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‘Four Lions’ – Review

Director: Chris Morris

Starring: Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar

Rating:

This is a film about terrorism. Yeah….

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‘War Horse’ (2011)

Director: Stephen Speilberg

Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch (and a really well trained horse)

Rating:

Yes, I liked this. I shouldn’t have – but I succumbed to the Spielberg whimsy. I know – what kind of critic am I?

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‘The Artist’ [2011] – Review

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo

Rating:

If this time last year someone said “The biggest movie event of the year will be a silent film directed by a Frenchman, inspired by Hollywood, and starring a mish-mash of French, American, and English actors” I would’ve laughed until the release of Avatar 2

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2011 Re-Cap

Well, it’s that time of the year. The time where audiences vote for crap and critics vote for something no-one has ever heard of. Yep – its Top 10 time!

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Top 5 Films of 2011

I wanted to make a Top 10 Films of 2011 list (truly I did), but I feel there’s too many essentials that I have yet to see before I can make a completely accurate one. (Amongst those essentials are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,Hugo, MoneyballThe Skin I Live InThe Ides of MarchThe DescendantsMoneyball, Midnight in ParisThe ArtistWe Need to Talk About Kevin, and the list goes on.) Read the rest of this entry

Winnie The Pooh (2011) – Review

Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall

Starring: John Cleese, Jim Cummings, Travis Oates, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey

Rating:

I suppose this isnt really a review – more like an advertisement. Why? Press the ‘More’ button my dear reader….

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Manos: The Restoration

This is an incredibly controversial, yet entirely true fact: Manos: The Hands of Fate is the most important film of all time. Therefore, this is a call to every film enthusiast in the world to help preserve this essential centerpiece of the medium.

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‘Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows’ – Reveiw

Director: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace

Rating:

Its not as good as the first, but still contains all the various elements that made the first instalment a surprise sucess. Review over.

OK, there is a lot more to talk about…

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