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Cinema Review Roundup–Phasmophobia, Acrophobia and

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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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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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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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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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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Cinema review–Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

When I left the cinema having watched the fourth instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise I’m glad nobody asked me what I thought because I honestly couldn’t say. I felt like I hadn’t enjoyed it even though I clearly remember thinking it was excellent. It dawned on me a few days later what had happened. The film was like a bell curve; it started well and the central set-piece in Dubai was as amazing as people had said it was. However, as the film neared its conclusion is totally ran out of steam and by the end I had forgotten how good the first 90 minutes were and was left disappointed by the lame last 30.

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