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Top 5… Films from 2009

Continuing my countdown of the best films of every year, here are my top films from 2009. This was a really tough year to pick only five from so the honourable mentions list is fairly long to compensate!

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Highlights of the week

Spiders, flying cars, transformers and skip-rope round up this weeks highlights of the week.

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Cinema review roundup – The Muppets versus the CIA!

This week I had the good fortune to catch up with The Muppets, This Means War and Safe House. Check out my reviews here.

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Top 5… Films from 2010

I was struggling for ideas this week for a top 5 list so I let one of my favourite podcasts Filmspotting inspire me. They regularly do top 5 lists and they started listing their top 5 from every year before they started. So as I have already done my Top 5 from 2011, here are my top 5 from 2010…

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Highlights of the week

It’s only videos this week, from spooky trailers to razor adverts…

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Top 5… Movies I can watch over and over and over again

It’s the calm before the storm at the cinema with the Oscar films all been and gone and the summer blockbusters starting in a few weeks. To fill the gap I thought I’d share my top 5 films that I can watch over and over again without getting bored.

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Cinema Review Roundup–Annoying Kids and Amazing OAPs

This week I saw the surprise Oscar best picture nominee Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and the latest from one time Oscar winning Director John Madden, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. One starred a 12 year old newcomer, the other starred seven over 60 year old acting greats.

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Top 5… Oscar years

Last night was the 84th Oscar ceremony and I wondered what Oscar themed top 5 I could do to celebrate. Well I thought I’d go for the big one and pick my top 5 Oscar years. To keep this feasible I only those that won and not those that were nominated and I focused more on the main awards (best picture, actor, actress, screenplay and director).

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Cinema Review Roundup–Phasmophobia, Acrophobia and Pteromerhanophobia

This week I managed to catch up with the “found footage” sleeper hit Chronicle, the “does what it says on the box” Man on a Ledge and see Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Potter chiller The Woman in Black. Here are my views on all three.

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Top 5… Tom Hanks performances

I was having a debate with my best friend last week about how Tom Hanks is no longer an amazing actor since his roles of late have been a bit rubbish. With the universally disliked Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close opening this week I thought I could dig out the best roles of this once top actor.

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Highlights of the week

The best of the web this week includes crazy anti-theft devices, failed robberies, Muppets and more.

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Cinema Review Roundup – Crazy Love and Crazy Nature

This week I’ll be sharing my views on the festival favourite Like Crazy and the latest Liam Neeson actioner The Grey.

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Top 5… Ghost Movies

This week brings the post-Potter debut for Daniel Radcliffe and early indications are he has done a respectable job. In honour of this occasion, here are my top 5 ghost movies.

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Highlights of the week

Insane new sports, iPhones, motivational speakers and the best movie trailer I’ve seen in ages. My round-up of the week from the web.

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Cinema Review – Underworld: Awakening and the Barrier of 3D

One of my most anticipated films of the year was Underworld: Awakening (admittedly a guilty pleasure) and so it was with great trepidation that I sat to watch a film that what was almost certainly going to disappoint. However, the reason I came away feeling like it was a poor film had very little to do with the rehashed story or mediocre action, it was being forced to endure 3D.

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Top 5… George Clooney Films

With the latest Clooney film now playing at the cinema and getting rave reviews (including from me) I thought I would list my top 5 Clooney films.

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Cinema Review Roundup – Best Picture Oscar Special

After realising I had only seen one of the best picture Oscar nominees I set about rectifying that by seeing the three that are still playing at the cinema. Here are my reactions…

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Top 5… Westerns

I used to hate the genre but I have come to love a good western. Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the little known (at least to me) John Wayne western called Chisum. So I thought this would be a good time to list my top 5 from the wild west.

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An A-Z of movies

Inspired by a recent splurge of blog posts on the same topic (Paul Joyce, Milly’s Scribblings and Iain Wear’s Posterous) I thought I would share my A-Z of films.

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Cinema Review Roundup – Good Prosthetics, Bad CG and Kick-Ass Action

I’ve happily managed top see three films since my last review so rather than write a post for each I thought I’d sum them all up here.

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