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Saving the art

27 February 2014
Saving the art

Saving the art

27 February 2014

Film review: The Monuments Men (12a)Running time 110 minutesRating:***War throws up the most unlikely heroes, sometimes just at the moment you need them…


Supersmart dog and his not-so-smart boy

20 February 2014
Supersmart dog and his not-so-smart boy

Supersmart dog and his not-so-smart boy

20 February 2014

Film review: Mr Peabody & Sherman (PG)Running time 92 minutesRating:***As well as being a very pleasant change not to have to watch films with bad…


Adam's fit for the fight against evil

13 February 2014
Adam's fit for the fight against evil

Adam's fit for the fight against evil

13 February 2014

Film review: I, Frankenstein (12a)Running time 92 minutesRating:**It’s a rare thing to find a film that in some respects is a pot of ordure, but would…


Ryan undercover in Russia

06 February 2014
Ryan undercover in Russia

Ryan undercover in Russia

06 February 2014

Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (12a)Running time 105 minutes #Rating:**ANYONE with a long plane journey to endure will have come across the books…


Up for the Oscars: 12 Years a Slave

30 January 2014
Up for the Oscars: 12 Years a Slave

Up for the Oscars: 12 Years a Slave

30 January 2014

Review: 12 Years a Slave (15) Running time 134 minutesRating: *****What with the Japanese behaving abominably towards British prisoners of war in The…


Life and death on the Burma Railway

23 January 2014
Life and death on the Burma Railway

Life and death on the Burma Railway

23 January 2014

The Railway Man (P15) Running time 116 minutes Rating:*** Today, there are only a handful of frail old men alive, who when the subject of railways comes…


It had to be Stiller

16 January 2014
It had to be Stiller

It had to be Stiller

16 January 2014

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG)Running time 125 minutes Rating:***If anyone was going to play the downtrodden, daydreaming wimp that is Walter Mitty,…


Hobbits hit the road again

09 January 2014
Hobbits hit the road again

Hobbits hit the road again

09 January 2014

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (12a) Running time 161 minutes Rating:*****  GOING to the latest instalment of the Tolkien fantasy is always…


What's in the can for 2014

02 January 2014
What's in the can for 2014

What's in the can for 2014

02 January 2014

After a year of ‘so-so’ films (with a couple of notable exceptions such as the sci-fi film Gravity and award-winner Argo), we all need something to look…


It's no Christmas turkey

19 December 2013
It's no Christmas turkey

It's no Christmas turkey

19 December 2013

Free Birds (PG)Running time 91 minutes Rating:***Not being a great lover of turkey (either alive or dead on a plate), any animated film about potential…


Mary Poppins - the power struggle

12 December 2013
Mary Poppins - the power struggle

Mary Poppins - the power struggle

12 December 2013

Saving Mr Banks (PG)Running time 125 minutes Rating:****Anyone who can make creepy old Walt Disney look and sound good fully deserves an actor of the…


Behind the scenes of JFK's assassination

05 December 2013
Behind the scenes of JFK's assassination

Behind the scenes of JFK's assassination

05 December 2013

Parkland (15)Running time 93 minutes Rating:*** The assassination of President John F Kennedy, in 1963, was one of those momentous events that everyone…


Enough to sap the soul

28 November 2013
Enough to sap the soul

Enough to sap the soul

28 November 2013

The Counselor(12a)Running time 117 minutes Rating:*As soon as you see the bleak, bleached desert landscape of the Texas and Mexico borderlands, you get…


And then there were two...

21 November 2013
And then there were two...

And then there were two...

21 November 2013

Film Review: Gravity(12a)Running time 91 minutes Rating:*****Rather than waste time with unnecessary introductions and lead-ins, let’s say from the outset…


Search for a lost son

14 November 2013
Search for a lost son

Search for a lost son

14 November 2013

Film Review: Philomena (12a)Running time 98 minutes Rating: ****The idea of joining Steve Coogan, known to so many of us as the character Alan Partridge,…


Attack of alien ants

07 November 2013
Attack of alien ants

Attack of alien ants

07 November 2013

Film reviewEnder’s Game(12a)Running time 114 minutes Rating: **Portraying your enemy as a faceless, inhuman being, radically different from yourself and…


Real-life hero

31 October 2013
Real-life hero

Real-life hero

31 October 2013

Captain Phillips (12A)Running time 134 minutes Rating:****Modern day pirates – the kind that operate off the Horn of Africa – do not generally come with…


Web of secrets

24 October 2013
Web of secrets

Web of secrets

24 October 2013

The Fifth Estate (15)Running time 128 minutes Rating:*** The ever-shifting world of the Internet, with its modems, codes, passwords and other geekery,…


Shine on, Proclaimers

18 October 2013
Shine on, Proclaimers

Shine on, Proclaimers

18 October 2013

Sunshine on Leith (PG) Running time 100 minutes Rating:***Jukebox musical based around 13 Proclaimers’ songs, is a simple story of romance and heartache…


Woody's back on form

10 October 2013
Woody's back on form

Woody's back on form

10 October 2013

Blue Jasmine (12a)Running time 98 minutes Rating:*****You would think that, with his 80th birthday fast approaching, Woody Allen might consider slowing…


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