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DVD Review – April 2013

Starbuck, starring Patrick Huard, directed by Ken Scott. David Wozniak (Huard) has reached his 40s lumbering around without a single adult responsibility and mounting debts. Just as his girlfriend Valerie announces her...

Film Review – March 2013 – Mark David Hatwood

Argo, starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Directed by Ben Affleck Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of...

Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007

Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007, featuring Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton & Judi Dench Everything Or Nothing focuses on three men with a shared dream: Bond...

Looper – Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis

Looper Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis, directed by Rian Johnson This is a futuristic action thriller set after time travel has been invented – but it is illegal and...

Searching for Sugar Man

In the late ‘60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, this film is adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer and is about Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of...

A Royal Affair

Starring Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander & Mads Mikkelsen, Directed by Nikolaj Arcel Keen to be a dutiful wife and Queen, Caroline’s hopes are dashed when she discovers the King Christian VII’s...

The Angels’ Share

Starring Roger Allam & Paul Brannigan, Directed by Ken Loach Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn...

Friends With Money

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack & Frances McDormand, directed by Nicole Holofcener Desperate for a relationship of some worth, Olivia is a pot-smoking housecleaner and her friends – who have to cope...

Le Havre

Starring Andre Wilms & Kati Outinen, directed by Aki Kaurismäki In this portrait of the French harbour city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Miguel) into...