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The Hunters is an abysmal horror thriller that starts off poorly and continues to climb ever lower down the ladder of quality. The story involves three separate strands that begin to intertwine. One is the story of an ex-army veteran who enters a town’s police force while clearly suffering from PTSD. He is suspicious about […]
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When Anna (Milla Jovovich), a primary school teacher (or elementary school teacher, as our friends across the Atlantic call them) is attacked by a serial killer after witnessing him commit a murder, she suffers severe brain damage due to a trauma to the head. As a result, she starts to suffer from prosopagnosia, a disorder […]
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London-born English actress Carey Mulligan came to international prominence on the back of her Academy Award-nominated turn in Lone Scherfig’s An Education, a role for which she also earned Best Actress awards from the National Board of Review, the British Independent Film Awards and BAFTA. She recently starred in Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s […]
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Whether you’ve seen The Iron Lady yet or not, it’s quite likely you’ll have an opinion on it. Some have been appalled at its intrusive nature, expressing dismay that the filmmakers haven’t waited until Margaret Thatcher’s death before portraying her as a frail old lady with dementia. Others have speculated as to how director Phyllida […]
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I’ve got a new favourite TV series, and you absolutely have to watch it. It isn’t very intellectual. People don’t do a lot of staring into the distance. There isn’t loads of blood and torture – nobody gets their chins cut off with industrial pliers. It isn’t set in a 1960s advertising agency, nor do […]
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This is a thoughtful and well acted drama, adapted from a novel by Chi-Yao Wang. Jonathan and Shane are two schoolboys, thrown together by chance when their teacher makes them befriend each other. Shane has problems concentrating and the teacher hopes Jonathan will help him stay organised and out of trouble. As the two boys […]
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The Edge’s Film Editor takes you through his top ten worst films of the year gone by.
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The Fades is another show from BBC Three’s growing stack of original British drama. It’s intricate, sprawling, smart and witty. It can also be rather terrifying at times, but in a way more reminiscent of Being Human rather than The Exorcist. The title of the series is the name given to the dead, or rather […]
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Barnaby Walter gives his view on the heated debate surrounding Clarkson and co.’s behaviour on the BBC show.
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Watching Kill List was, for me, a rather disappointing experience. When it was released in theatres last autumn it received a large amount of critical fawning and praise, and I can understand why. It’s got some intelligently written dialogue in it; it’s shockingly bloody at times (and I mean shocking); and it has a whiplash […]
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Gary Marshall’s second holiday-focused movie is just as poor and cheesy as the first.
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Italian gangster Renato Vallanzasca’s life, before being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison, may have been full of robberies, brutal slayings, torture, sex and drug use, but it makes for a strangely dull biopic. Established and capable director Michele Placido’s take on his violent and unpredictable life is visually striking, but the narrative just […]
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It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a film called The Search for Santa Paws, especially when there is an adorable dog on the cover. But I’m sorry to say that this straight-to-DVD/BD spin-off from the Disney Buddies series is cheap rubbish. But what else were you expecting? For those who don’t know, the Disney […]
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This incredibly tedious political thriller, from The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman, tries and fails to make an intelligent and compelling drama out of the 2003 Valerie Palme scandal. Palme was a CIA agent involved in international operations. During the WMD fears of the early 2000s, her husband Joseph Wilson – due to his knowledge and […]