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  • American Horror Story: Asylum - The Complete Second Season (2012)
    Review preview for American Horror Story: Asylum - The Complete Second Season

    The ingredients are perfect for an over-the-top frightfest, as monsters of the inhuman and human variety fight for control of the hospital, and the residents' souls.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    A reporter looking for a scoop gets impounded with patients at a mental institution.
  • Elizabeth (1998)
    Review preview for Elizabeth

    The performances walk up and touch you.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Events leading up to and following the crowning of the Virgin Queen.
  • The Escapist (2008)
    Review preview for The Escapist

    Proficient entertainment that marks debut writer/director Wyatt out as a filmmaker to watch.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    A prison inmate must break out to make amends with his dying daughter.
  • Enemy At The Gates (2000)
    Snipers play cat and mouse during the battle of Stalingrad.
  • Goodbye Bafana (2007)
    Review preview for Goodbye Bafana

    What, you may ask, was Mandela thinking, after being isolated, chained and humiliated for a third of his lifetime? You won't find any answers here.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Nelson Mandela's prison guard tells his story.
  • Killing Me Softly (2002)
    Review preview for Killing Me Softly

    A poseur's wet dream.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Heather Graham falls for Joseph Fiennes, who likes kinky sex and might have killed someone.
  • Leo (2003)
    Review preview for Leo

    The plot simmers along nicely, dipping and weaving between the two storylines with grace and style.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A former convict corresponds with a lonely boy in the Deep South.
  • Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998)
    Review preview for Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

    The comedy rests. In fact, it goes to sleep.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The friendship of three buddies is threatened after they all meet - and fall for - the same girl.
  • The Merchant Of Venice (2004)
    Review preview for The Merchant Of Venice

    You are unlikely to see stronger performances in a costume drama for a very long time.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Shakespeare's tale of usuary and romance in Italy.
  • Rancid Aluminium (1999)
    Review preview for Rancid Aluminium

    Somewhere in the midst of this chaos the seed of a comic film fails to take root.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    A scheming account tries to swindle his client out of the family business.
  • Risen (2016)
    Review preview for Risen

    In the colonial tradition there is only one course of action, unreasonable force and the hard hand of authority pressing down upon the throats of the protesters

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A Roman tribune is sent to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead.
  • Running With Scissors (2006)
    Review preview for Running With Scissors

    The movie is peopled by characters without boundaries and the cast responds by turning in some of the most extravagant performances this side of I, Claudius.

    The Exile · 2 out of 5
    Growing up in someone else’s dysfunctional family.
  • Shakespeare In Love (1998)
    Review preview for Shakespeare In Love

    The air is heavy with irony, light with laughter and alive with love.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    The young William Shakespeare - suffering writer's block - finds romance provides inspiration.
  • Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas (2003)
    Review preview for Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas

    The plot would confuse an intelligent bat.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Feature-length cartoon has Sinbad the Pirate battle with the Goddess of Discord.
  • Strangerland (2015)
    Review preview for Strangerland

    Kidman hasn't turned in a performance like this for some years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When two teenage children go missing in the desert, their parents' lives begin to unravel.

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