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  • Alpha (2018)
    Review preview for Alpha

    Sentimental tosh

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Ice age survival drama involving a wounded teenager and an injured wolf
  • Blade II (2002)
    Wesley Snipes returns as the half human, half vampire destroyer of evil.
  • Captive (2015)
    Review preview for Captive

    Authenticity is well matched by the performances

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A drug-addicted single mum is taken hostage in her own home.
  • The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future (2022)
    Review preview for The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future

    The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future emerges as part of a growing body of work which is striving to address desperation with imagination, to find new ways to be.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Cecilia and her children travel to her ageing father’s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.
  • Goal! 2: Living the Dream (2007)
    Santi Munez goes to Real Madrid and struggles with his love life and fights for a place on the team.
  • Shut Up! (2003)
    Review preview for Shut Up!

    Gerard Depardieu... gives a performance that is accurate, sincere and unwatchable.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    The stupidest crook in France joins forces with the most ruthless hitman in Paris.
  • Sleep Dealer (2008)
    Review preview for Sleep Dealer

    Made on a minuscule budget the feature took eight years to get from script to screen, one wonders how much more innovative it might have seemed back those eight years.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    Node Runner - if they catch you you're through!
  • The Tailor Of Panama (2001)
    Review preview for The Tailor Of Panama

    A movie with this kind of pedigree should not be a mess. And yet it is. Horribly so.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A spy with an eye for the girls and the main chance colludes with a tailor to invent an insurrection.

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