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  • Heavy Rain - PS3

    Heavy Rain - PS3 review

    4.0 REVIEW A new dimension in gaming? 18 February 2010 8:41 GMT

    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...

  • Catch a Fire - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Catch a Fire - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Political masterpiece or not worth the bother? 31 July 2007 9:00 GMT

    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. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Angelina Jolie 0

    The Good Shepherd - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can De Niro impress with his latest directed offering 29 June 2007 9:00 GMT

    Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a high flyer at Yale University in 1939 when he is recruited to join the American secret service.

    His hidden life gives him first hand experience of the Second World War and the Soviet expansion into Eastern...

  • Blood Diamond - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Blood Diamond - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Can DiCaprio and Hounsou impress? 23 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    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.

    Put to work in the...

  • Apocalypto - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Action, Drama 0

    Apocalypto - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Worth a gander or more gruesome tales from Gibson? 16 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    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. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Daniel Craig 0

    Infamous - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Deja vu or worth a look? 14 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    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.

    The story...

  • Bobby - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Bobby - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can Estevez pull off a drama? 12 June 2007 0:00 GMT

    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....

  • Babel - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Babel - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW One to watch or just one the critics enjoyed? 25 May 2007 9:00 GMT

    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. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    The Last King of Scotland - DVD review

    4.5 REVIEW Does it justify the hype? 23 May 2007 0:00 GMT

    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.

    A mixture of fact and fiction,...

  • London to Brighton - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    London to Brighton - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Dark and moody, but is it any good? 17 May 2007 13:00 GMT

    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. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    Black Book - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can Verhoeven return to form with this movie? 7 May 2007 13:00 GMT

    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.

    A beautiful Jewish singer, Rachel (Carice...

  • Miss Potter - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Ewan McGregor 0

    Miss Potter - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can Zellweger pull of playing the storyteller? 25 April 2007 12:00 GMT

    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.

    Miss...

  • The Prestige - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, Scarlett Johannson 0

    The Prestige - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Magic trick or one to watch? 23 March 2007 11:00 GMT

    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),...

  • The Queen - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama 0

    The Queen - DVD review

    4.5 REVIEW Is it worth all the review its been showed with? 22 March 2007 9:00 GMT

    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.

    This...

  • Down in the Valley - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Drama, David Morse 0

    Down in the Valley - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can Norton save this modern day Brokeback Mountain? 15 March 2007 9:00 GMT

    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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