Review

Snowtown review

It’s a trick Kurzel repeats often, promising juicy (if disgusting) morsels then withholding them from the audience for maximum effect. Based, like Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer , on real events, Snowtown is set in slums straight out of Animal Kingdom , with which it shares a painfully inexpressive …

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Immortals review

However bleak the future appears for Greece right now, at least it can comfort itself with the knowledge that the roost isn’t ruled by Mickey Rourke’s loopy king Hyperion, the big bad in Tarsem Singh’s stylised actioner. Here, the mad monarch has put the country to the sword in his …

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Metal Gear Solid HD Collection review

Much like record companies in the late-’80s, game publishers have realized that they can mine their back catalogs by sprucing up a couple classics and putting them out in a single package. While some of these are obvious cash grabs, even those are often worth it for people who missed …

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The Help review

The tensions of the segregated South have been explored more darkly and deftly in better tomes and films. But Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller was embraced by millions charmed by the female dynamics at work amid the Jim Crow laws. This deft addressing of difficult subjects was ripe for a movie – …

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Machine Gun Preacher review

Now that’s a title. It sounds like a lost Grindhouse trailer, or the great Neveldine/Taylor flick we’ll never have. Some surprise is forgiven, then, when Machine Gun Preacher turns out not to be a beefy slab of exploitation but a furrowed-brow issue drama. Gerard Butler plays real-life biker and bad …

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Disney Universe review

With so much to play, collect and unlock, there’s a helluva lot to love about Disney Universe. However, it’s a little difficult to assume that most of you reading are going to be the ones loving it. So, if you’re in the minority of people who looked at our recent …

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