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Review: Total Recall (2012) ★★☆☆☆
Arnold Schwarzenegger kicking ass on Mars and a three-boobed hooker is the kind of unashamed fun that has helped Paul…
100 Discs of Christmas #22 – Doubt (2009)
John Patrick Shanley brings his award-winning stage show Doubt to the big screen with brilliant effect in this…
Archive: Tom Hooper’s Longford is an Underrated Masterpiece
Good viewing doesn’t always mean happy viewing, and this is something to bear in mind…
100 Discs of Christmas #21 – Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway is not for people who like their films to have satisfying endings, and…
100 Discs of Christmas #20 – Battle Royale (2000)
Superbly adapted from an already controversial novel by Koushun Takami, Director Kinji Fukasaku and his…
100 Discs of Christmas #19 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
It’s best to watch this outstanding, masterful film without knowing too much about it. For…
Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower ★★★★★
Occasionally a film aimed at and about teenagers comes along that doesn’t feel sentimental, patronising…
100 Discs of Christmas #18 – The Nanny (1965)
Bette Davis was a great actor, and here she is enjoyably creepy as a Nanny…
Review: Looper ★★★★☆
With the world avenged and the city of Gotham saved, the money focused summer blockbuster…
100 Discs of Christmas #17 – Emma (1996)
This 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Emma (one of two adaptations of the book…
100 Discs of Christmas #16 – The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Oscar Wilde’s witty comedy is brought entertainingly to life by Oliver Parker, who directed the…
Review: The Watch ★★★☆☆
The Watch, to sum up: aliens, banter and exploding cows. One of the big releases…
100 Discs of Christmas #15 – The Others (2001)
Although production on the film was notoriously difficult, The Others is one of the best…
100 Discs of Christmas #14 – Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Stephen Frears has been responsible for some of the most interesting British films of the…