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  • Review: Declan McKenna – ‘Daniel, You’re Still A Child’

    Review: Declan McKenna – ‘Daniel, You’re Still A Child’

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    Declan McKenna is back with another absolute banger of a single

  • Cowboys & Aliens ★★★☆☆

    Cowboys & Aliens ★★★☆☆

    With an unashamedly ridiculous and provocative title, it’s surprising how tough and conventional this competent blockbuster is. There’s relatively little humour, considering director Jon Favreau is no stranger to comedy. It has a strict beginning-middle-end structure, and there is of course a brooding attractive hero, a sexy lass and a collection of mildly interesting supporting…

  • Badly plotted and painfully slow, The Girl Who Played With Fire is a dull failure

    Badly plotted and painfully slow, The Girl Who Played With Fire is a dull failure

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    The first entry in Swedish author Steig Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy became a surprise big-screen hit. The film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, was a near-perfect adaptation of Larsson’s novel. Chilling, reckless and relentlessly compelling, it was a foreign-language film for a mainstream audience, earning a place in multiplexes that…