Archive for Neil Queen
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Sports FitnessBBC Libero football analysis tool and exactly how it works
9 June 2010Sepp Blatter does not have Pocket-Lint in his RSS feed. As the head of Fifa and the most powerful man in world football, he has long resisted the march of technological progress, steadfastly refusing to embrace systems, such as Hawk-Eye, which could help...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5A Serious Man - DVD review
12 March 2010I’d always thought that ours was a generation of pussies, that next to our parents, we’re a bunch of indulged wasters, with the intellectual teat of the internet killing our sense of wanderlust, encouraging us to expect everything on a plate. Not...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5The White Ribbon - DVD review
5 March 2010Having won his place in the hearts of countless suburban multiplex-goers with such joyous spectacles as Weekend At Bernie's 4: Suffer The Consequences and the more recent Harry Potter & The Ceaseless Pain Of Eternal Damnation, funny-guy movie director...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5Fantastic Mr Fox - DVD review
26 February 2010Even though we here at Pocket-lint are coaxed into gleeful states of frothy delirium whenever technological advancements come into our purview, what’s equally heart-warming is that, rather than rendered past inventions as obsolete, such creations actually...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5Jennifer’s Body - DVD review
19 February 2010It’s been a lively time for teen flicks in the past few years, from the multiplex-gobbling Twilight to the wry Superbad, and films like Juno and Adventureland have shown that there’s plenty of reasons for those of us who don’t look like members...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5Up - DVD review
12 February 2010We could probably do this review in one short sentence: buy this DVD, schmucks. But that would be unfair on you guys, plus my Editor may feel a bit short-changed. In truth, Up’s credentials are by now no secret or surprise, having hoovered up a vat...
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Home Cinema 4 out of 5Adventureland - DVD review
5 February 2010Success in the Hollywood mainstream is often pretty much all about the maths – "from the people who brought you X" + "starring Y" x "vogue for Z" = smash. Here we have bloke behind Superbad, plus the girl from Twilight and the boy from Zombieland. Should...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5Invention of Lying - DVD review
29 January 2010God loves a trier, which is ironic when the trier in question is devout atheist Ricky Gervais. Never one to dwell on his achievements - both The Office and Extras refused to outstay their welcome - and after just a clutch of acting gigs stateside, his...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 - DVD review
22 January 2010Able to brush off plaudits like so much dandruff, French gangster opus Mesrine has already folk pointing at it, saying things like: "best crime flick since Scorsese, that is". The crime scene genre is hardly a field that’s starved of cinematic action,...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5Funny People - DVD review
15 January 2010Having helped reclaim the teen comedy from the American Pie gross-out gang, 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up director Judd Apatow attempts to move into a smarter, more mature, but no less funny terrain with the over-reaching, yet still perfectly satisfactory...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5District 9 - DVD review
11 January 2010It’s suitably documented how Pavlov’s dog developed an innate response to repeated events, but did they stick around to see what happened when it got bored and sick of the sound of the bell? Was it ultimately able to fashion the "whatever" hand gesture...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5Antichrist - DVD review
8 January 2010Should there come a time that a film is released starring Dame Judi Dench, George Clooney and Nick Griffin as action heroes in a 3D costume drama period piece documentary written by Harold Shipman and Danny Dyer and directed by James Cameron, Michael...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5The Hangover - DVD review
11 December 2009Stag do, Vegas, booze, drugs, strippers, vomiting and the casting of Heather Graham - The Hangover boats a mighty number of signifiers that suggest that it was going for nothing nobler than the lowest common denominator. Which makes it all the more prop-worthy...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5Inglourious Basterds - DVD review
4 December 2009After cashing in a few of his critical acclaim chips to spend a fair few years paying homage to scuzzy 42nd Street grindhouse scene, Quentin Tarantino turned to more viable genre territory with this stunning, textured and ballsy WW2 flick. Inglourious...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - DVD review
27 November 2009When film was in its infancy at the fag end of the 19th century, the mere sight of a train pulling into a station would supposedly reduce cinema-goers to spasms of hysteria, fearful that the thing would leap from the screen. We can act all smug about...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5Terminator Salvation - DVD review
20 November 2009While Governer A. Schwarzenegger summons up all his legendary might and braces himself for battle with feisty eco-warriors over his inability to protect California’s salmon stock, the fate of the Terminator franchise now lies in the hands of bolshy...
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Home Cinema 4 out of 5Moon - DVD review
13 November 2009The term reboot is one that’s becoming more and more familiar to film buffs, a frankly irritating high concept notion that implies Hollywood fat-cats seeking to wring the life out of franchises, rather than adhere to any noble creative impulse. Only...
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Gaming 4.5 out of 5Football Manager 2010 - Mac review
10 November 2009Damn you, Sports Interactive. We’d just about managed to wean ourselves off FM09 and re-emerge into civilised society, one that doesn’t care about how well our under-18s did in the Youth Cup or whether a 4-2-3-1 formation is the way forward, when...
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Home Cinema 2.5 out of 5Public Enemies - DVD review
30 October 2009Director Michael Mann, he of Heat and Collateral glory, return for yet more tough guy hilarity with this old-school tale of guns, gals and gangsters The ever-reliable Johnny Depp ventures into a dark era of modern American history, playing John Dillinger,...
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Home Cinema 3.5 out of 5Drag Me To Hell - DVD review
23 October 2009They say, well the non-biblical they, that the geeks shall inherit the earth – but it’s clear that the horror film directors among their number are already making serious headway. After making their name with their fanboy-chic low-budget horrors,...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5X-Men Origins: Wolverine - DVD review
16 October 2009Hugh Jackman busts out his fulsome sideys for a fourth time, as the X-Men creative team attempt to discover if three films in a series really is the cut-off point before the rot sets in. Focusing on the pedicure-phobic firebrand, XMO:W delves into Logan’s...
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5Synecdoche, New York - DVD review
9 October 2009I’m worried about Charlie Kaufman. His films show such an unwillingness to adhere to the crushing universal guidelines that we all live under, basics like the laws of physics and the tedious linear rigidity of time, that I wonder that he might decide...
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Home Cinema 4 out of 5Crank: High Voltage - DVD review
11 September 2009Jason Statham, I owe you an apology. I snarkily sneered every time I heard you utter the phrase: “Remember, you are not a salmon” in those Kit-Kat adverts. I was non-plussed as you carved out a cushty niche for yourself as Guy Ritchie’s main geezer....
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Home Cinema 4.5 out of 5Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - DVD review
4 September 2009The noble visitor to Pocket-lint, boasting a heightened awareness of the furtherment of technological accomplishment and a keen love of newness, may feel short-changed by me pushing a DVD of something that they may well have already watched for free,...
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Home Cinema 3 out of 5The Damned United - DVD review
28 August 2009With sensible economic decisions being to the fore at the moment, actor Michael Sheen has got in on the act and offered us cineastes a two-for-one special offer. As British cinema’s number one exponent of character studies, here he’s offering his...