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Category Archives: Drama

The Young Victoria

A nice period romance that somehow makes Queen Victoria sexy and doesn’t insult the audience’s intelligence.

Law Abiding Citizen

This no-brainer from Hollywood delivers just the right amount of genuine shocks, suspense and unpredictability to make it into guilty pleasure territory.

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Hard to watch, yet somehow still worth it, this one is set apart by performances from its actresses that are like a study in first-class acting.

Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant war film falls just short of a classic because of a lacklustre ending.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Twilighters, or whatever they call themselves, would see this even if it was nothing but words on a screen, which in reality, would probably pack more of an emotional punch than this passionless, flat, second installment to the Twilight Saga.

Nord

Sit back and let the beautiful Arctic landscapes and dark comic humour of Norway’s answer to Planes, Trains and Automobiles seduce you.

The Box

Definitely not for everyone, and not up to the greatness of Donnie Darko, this latest effort from writer/director Richard Kelly is still interesting, thought-provoking, and not like anything else out there at the moment.

A Christmas Carol

Dark, scary, and fantastic visually, this revamp of the quintessential Christmas story sticks close to its source and delivers the intended allegory on the inevitable cost of greed.

2012

The end can’t come soon enough with this overlong and overhyped disaster epic that all been done before – just far better.

Harry Brown

What could have been a good social commentary about what’s wrong with ‘Broken Britain’, Harry Brown comes across as too shallow and Right Wing for most modern tastes. Michael Caine is the film’s saviour with a stand out performance.