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Latest Film Reviews

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  The Wild (2006)

  Review preview for The Wild

  A dreary, cynical exercise in the marketing of cuddly toys.

  Zoo animals escape to the wilds.
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  Freeze Frame (2004)

  Review preview for Freeze Frame

  The film collapses in on itself spectacularly.

  A murder suspect films himself 24/7 to give himself an alibi.
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  The Other Side Of The Bed (2002)

  Review preview for The Other Side Of The Bed

  Like a hot salsa antidote to all those cornball American musicals.

  The relationship between two couples becomes increasingly complicated.
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  Van Helsing (2004)

  Review preview for Van Helsing

  A veritable compost heap of derivative ideas, flat acting and empty plot lines, overburdened with an unrestrained CGI budget that leaves the viewer glazed with a continuous projectile vomit of mutating monsters and falling masonry.

  CGI overload as Dracula hunter encounters famous fictional characters and assorted beasties
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  The Embalmer (2002)

  Animal-stuffing sleazy dwarf embroiled in Mafia drug running.
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  Barbershop 2: Back In Business (2004)

  Review preview for Barbershop 2: Back In Business

  The camera bounces around from one staged encounter to the next, until you start feeling curiously seasick from the clumsy breaks and wandering pan shots.

  Ice Cube returns as the neighbourhood barber - this time facing multinational competition in Chicago.
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  The Perfect Score (2004)

  Review preview for The Perfect Score

  Irony and danger is hinted at, only to be reeled in to the safer backwaters of Hollywood banality.

  American students plan to cheat their way through their SATs test.
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  The Passion Of The Christ (2004)

  Review preview for The Passion Of The Christ

  Taut and visceral filmmaking at its most intense.

  A stunning, emotionally gruelling telling of the Passion.