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  • Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire (1987)
    Review preview for Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire

    Despite its entertainingly unusual premise, Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampires doesn't really hang together as a story.

    Sarah Artt · 2 out of 5
    Cult snooker loopy musical.
  • The Choral (2025)
    Review preview for The Choral

    The power of The Choral is that it evokes smiles and laughter in opposition to the oppressive reality of these war years.

    Paul Risker · 3.5 out of 5
    A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war... leaving it forced to change its rules.
  • David Copperfield (1999)
    Review preview for David Copperfield

    The quality of this production is seamless, and if there is a criticism you could say it lacks originality, remaining faithful to the novel, which, for purists, is a form of flattery.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Faithful adaptation of Dickens' novel about a boy growing up through troubled times.
  • Eragon (2006)
    Review preview for Eragon

    The film has more violent action than a PG-certificate dares admit to and looks suitably legendary.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    When a simple farm boy discovers a dragon's egg, he also finds his destiny: to recover the lost art of dragon riding and save the kingdom from evil.
  • Funny Cow (2017)
    Review preview for Funny Cow

    The film is in danger of resembling a caricature of working class life, circa 1960

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A woman tries to make it as a stand-up in the Northern clubs at a time when sexism and alcohol and bad jokes prevailed.
  • Get Carter (1971)
    Review preview for Get Carter

    Carter has become one of Caine's most memorable performances in a long career.

    Steven Yates · 5 out of 5
    A Cockney gangster travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother's murder.
  • Harrison's Flowers (2000)
    A woman stumbles into the war in Yugoslavia in search of her husband.
  • It's All About Love (2003)
    Review preview for It's All About Love

    This is a shivery thriller, made better by a disturbing lack of information.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    An estranged husband attempts to save the life of his wife in New York, 2021.
  • Krull (1983)
    Review preview for Krull

    Just about the most boring fantasy film ever made.

    Jennie Kermode · 1 out of 5
    When aliens arrive to conquer the planet of Krull they kidnap a prince's girlfriend and things get personal.
  • The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
    Review preview for The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

    Considering the massive cast of characters and overlapping plotlines, David Edgar's adaptation is little short of a masterpiece.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Stage adaptation of the Dickens classic.
  • Les Miserables In Concert (1996)
    Review preview for Les Miserables In Concert

    Stage performances tend to look flat and muted on screen, anyway, but this must surely have done so for the audience as well.

    Ben Sillis · 2 out of 5
    10th Anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
  • Millions (2004)
    Review preview for Millions

    Sprinkled with a heady dose of magic realism, this film is lovely.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Two brothers on a housing estate experience a financial miracle.
  • The Mummy Returns (2001)
    Review preview for The Mummy Returns

    Visual surprises make up for the absurdity of the storyline.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A complex tongue-in-cheek adventure in London and the Sahara with gallant ex-legionnaire and beautiful Egyptologist fight supernatural beings.
  • New Tricks: Series 3 (2006)
    Review preview for New Tricks: Series 3

    The plots improve as Series 3 progresses, but it is not so much the complexities of the story lines that hold your attention as the personal idiosyncrasies of the characters.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Ex coppers solve shelved crimes with panache and old fashioned eccentricity.
  • Onegin (1999)
    Review preview for Onegin

    As an adaptation of Pushkin's narrative poem, Michael Ignatieff and Peter Ettedgui have delivered a modern screenplay that rips through convention to the pulsing heart of a country girl's passion for a sophisticated urban aristocrat.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Lavish version of Pushkin's poem about a jaded St Petersburg aristocrat.
  • Possum (2018)
    Review preview for Possum

    The poem and whole tone of the film evokes Ted Hughes’ The Crow anthology.

    Emilia Rolewicz · 2.5 out of 5
    A disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to face up to his wicked stepfather.
  • Strictly Sinatra (2001)
    Review preview for Strictly Sinatra

    Kelly Macdonald has retained the one thing that actors would kill for, the ability to be natural.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A comedy drama about a pub crooner in Glasgow who is adopted by the Mob.
  • Van Helsing (2004)
    Review preview for Van Helsing

    Van Helsing doesn't pretend to be anything other than a comic book adventure, but even comic book adventures need some kind of grounding in reality.

    Tony Sullivan · 2 out of 5
    CGI overload as Dracula hunter encounters famous fictional characters and assorted beasties

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