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Salah (Ziad Abaza) puts his academic studies on-hold in order to help his father run the family kebab shop, in a seaside town on
Sometimes the popularity of a film defeats you – Antique Bakery is one such movie. That’s not to say that this smash hit from Korea
The Brigand of Kandahar is a novelty where Hammer films are concerned – namely that it has seldom been seen. After viewing it you will understand why,
Some films are just too big. Take The Dark Knight Rises for instance. It’s been eight years since Batman was last seen, and the city of
Just because fairytales are generally aimed at children, doesn’t mean that adults can’t enjoy them as well. Especially if they are given a new
Drive, one of cinema’s smash hits from 2011, is like a bad car crash – you know you shouldn’t really stop to watch, but
I had such high hopes for Wanderlust, the comedy by director David Wain, starring Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux. After sitting through
A film critic’s job is akin to that of a sounding-board. Sometimes it’s a sheer delight to sit through a film and then have
Captain America (Chris Evans), along with his companions Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson), and newcomer The Falcon (Anthony Mackie), are
When viewing some films you find yourself asking whether you are missing something which everyone else appears to get: or is it simply that
You should know straight off when one of the main cast members of A Night in the Woods – yet another feeble entry in the
There is an organisation which, whether we are conscious of it or not, effects everyone who watches films either at the cinema or in the
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