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  • The Cottage (2008)
    Review preview for The Cottage

    Taken as a straightforward comic horror movie, this feels too derivative and clichéd. Taken as homage or pastiche, it's not nearly funny, knowing or camp enough.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 2.5 out of 5
    When wannabe big-time crooks kidnap a gangster's daughter and hole up in a remote cottage, they find there are scarier people out there than the mob.
  • Guest House Paradiso (1999)
    Review preview for Guest House Paradiso

    They went down to Ealing Studios and shot the film. Dead.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson run the worst hotel in Britain.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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