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Heavy Rain - PS3 review
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A new dimension in gaming?
18 February 2010 8:41 GMT
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Heavy Rain is everything Quantic Dream promised that it would be: a powerful, emotional, ground-breaking experience with stunning visuals and believable virtual actors. Gripping, moving, intelligent and visionary, it's the richest synthesis of game...
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Catch a Fire - DVD review
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Political masterpiece or not worth the bother?
31 July 2007 9:00 GMT
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Catch a Fire is the true story of political activist Patrick Chamusso who was sentenced to 24 years in prison after attempting to blow up a South African oil refinery in 1980.
Derek “Antwone Fisher” Luke plays Chamusso, a loving husband... -
The Good Shepherd - DVD review
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Can De Niro impress with his latest directed offering
29 June 2007 9:00 GMT
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Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a high flyer at Yale University in 1939 when he is recruited to join the American secret service.
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Blood Diamond - DVD review
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Can DiCaprio and Hounsou impress?
23 June 2007 11:00 GMT
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Set amid the carnage of the Sierra Leone civil war of the late-1990s, Blood Diamond tells the story of Solomon Vandy (Hounsou), a Mende fisherman forced into slavery after his village is decimated by rebel guerrillas.
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Apocalypto - DVD review
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Worth a gander or more gruesome tales from Gibson?
16 June 2007 11:00 GMT
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Three years on from The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson returns to the director’s chair for a brutal action thriller set against the backdrop of the fall of the Mayan empire.
When a savage tribe decimates a peaceful village, Jaguar Paw... -
Infamous - DVD review
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Deja vu or worth a look?
14 June 2007 11:00 GMT
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Following directly in the footsteps of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar winning turn in 2006, Toby Jones now takes on the role of Truman Capote - the famously eccentric American novelist, playwright and screenwriter - in Infamous.
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Bobby - DVD review
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Can Estevez pull off a drama?
12 June 2007 0:00 GMT
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Bobby follows the stories of 22 fictional characters in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel on the night of June 4th 1968, when Presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated moments after claiming victory in the crucial California primary....
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Babel - DVD review
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One to watch or just one the critics enjoyed?
25 May 2007 9:00 GMT
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The third collaboration between Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) is a multi-stranded epic, spanning three continents.
A rifle shot in the African desert sparks a chain of events linking... -
The Last King of Scotland - DVD review
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Does it justify the hype?
23 May 2007 0:00 GMT
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Based on Giles Foden’s best selling novel, The Last King of Scotland is an enthralling political thriller set amid the destruction of Idi Amin’s (Whitaker) murderous reign as Ugandan president during the 1970s.
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London to Brighton - DVD review
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Dark and moody, but is it any good?
17 May 2007 13:00 GMT
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Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) is a prostitute, forced by Derek (Johnnie Harris) her bullying pimp to find a child to satisfy a ruthless gangland boss’ sexual appetite.
When things turn nasty, Kelly escapes with 11-year-old Joanne (Georgia Groome)... -
Black Book - DVD review
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Can Verhoeven return to form with this movie?
7 May 2007 13:00 GMT
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Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's oddball career has given us classics such as Robocop and Basic Instinct, but also howlers like Showgirls. We're happy to say that Black Book is in the first camp.
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Miss Potter - DVD review
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Can Zellweger pull of playing the storyteller?
25 April 2007 12:00 GMT
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Just the sight of the name in the title may have some people clicking quickly to another review but, thankfully, this Potter film has nothing to do with the four-eyed dope that has blighted our Christmas schedules for the last 6 years.
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The Prestige - DVD review
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Magic trick or one to watch?
23 March 2007 11:00 GMT
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Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan reunites with Christian Bale and Michael Caine for a twisted murder mystery set in the world of Victorian-era magicians. Bale plays Alfred Borden, a conjuror accused of murdering his rival, Robert Angier (Jackman),...
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The Queen - DVD review
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Is it worth all the review its been showed with?
22 March 2007 9:00 GMT
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Director / writer team Stephen Frears and Peter Morgan reunite for a follow-up to their critically-lauded Channel 4 film “The Deal”, which imagined Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s strained relationship before Labour’s 1997 election win.
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Down in the Valley - DVD review
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Can Norton save this modern day Brokeback Mountain?
15 March 2007 9:00 GMT
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Following the recent trend for modern-day westerns (think "Brokeback Mountain" and "Three Burials") Ed Norton’s latest is a cowboy drama set in the suburban sprawl of today’s San Fernando Valley.
When high school student Tobe (Wood) meets...
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