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  • Annabelle: Creation (2017)
    Review preview for Annabelle: Creation

    In the dark no one can hear you die

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
  • Catch Me If You Can (2002)
    Review preview for Catch Me If You Can

    It's never dull and always looks good, although the Sixties have become the Fifties - not a hippie, or civil rights marcher in sight

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    True story of a boy who conned his way into being an airline pilot.
  • Gran Torino (2008)
    Review preview for Gran Torino

    They do, it seems, still sometimes make them like they used to.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    Foul-mouthed racist pensioner stands up to gang leaders in his neighbourhood.
  • The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)
    Review preview for The Pursuit Of Happyness

    Hugely complimented by Smith’s performance and kept in line by an intelligent script from Steve Conrad, don’t be fooled by the trailer, or the poster. There is nothing soft about this.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A failed salesman, with a five-year-old son, struggles to stay afloat while learning to be a stock broker in San Francisco in the Eighties.
  • Trail Of The Screaming Forehead (2007)
    Review preview for Trail Of The Screaming Forehead

    An awful lot of fun if you like that sort of thing.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    50s B-movies take a turn for a spoofing, as alien soul-sucking foreheads flood the world.

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