Movies 2010
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Despicable Me
The story is of supervillain Gru who plans to use three orphan girls to help him steal the Shrink Ray. The girls however see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. We went… Continue reading
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Leaving
Bored, with a well off husband. Suzanne trains to be a physiotherapist and her husband agrees to finance the fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne meets the man hired to do the refurbishment, the mutual attraction is sudden and intense. Suzanne falls in completely in love and decides to… Continue reading
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Frozen
A day on the slopes turns into a nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that they’ve been left behind dangling high off the ground with no way down. With the resort closed… Continue reading
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
In my opinion the overrated Nicholas Cage has only ever made two decent films “Adaptation” and “Knowing”. I just can’t understand why he is always in such demand. This film was actually quite liked by the critics so I thought I would give it a go. What a load of crap, crap acting and a… Continue reading
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Shutter Island
Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the cost of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. Having read the novel by Dennis Lehane a couple of… Continue reading
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Danny and Vic are two ex-cons plan to gain a huge amount of cash in the ransom for Alice—the daughter of a rich businessman. They kidnap her and take her in a flat that they have converted into a prison cell. But things don’t quite go to plan… This fantastic British film is an incredibly… Continue reading
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Solomon Kane
Kane is a privateer fighting in North Africa, but after an encounter with The Devil’s Reaper, he is damned and he must seek redemption or have his soul damned to Hell. He returns to England to lives a life of peace, but soon the a clash with followers of the evil sorcerer Malachi means he must… Continue reading
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Green Zone
A month after the invasion of Iraq Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his squad have been given three locations where WMD could be located but they are nowhere to be found. At a briefing Miller questions the anonymous intelligence that he is receiving but his superiors basically tell him to follow orders to search for… Continue reading
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Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham(Clooney) is hired by firms all over the usa to make their staff redundant. His cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is about to get ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. When I saw the trailer for this film I thought… Continue reading
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Salt
Had a night out with the Corky’s tonight. Dinner at Prezzo and then went to see ‘Salt’, Angelina Jolie’s new film (see liz’s review) We really enjoyed it, a good solid action thriller, exactly what Jolie does best. 9/10 Continue reading
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Crazies
The town of Ogden Marsh, in Iowa, is the”friendliest place on Earth”.The town’s water supply is accidentally infected with the “Trixie” virus which gradually transforms the mental state of the infected into blood-thirsty killers, who then prey on family and neighbours. This is a marriage between conspiracy theories and a zombiefest. Decent effects and good,… Continue reading
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, having lost a libel case is offered an assignment by Henrik Vanger to write the Vanger family history as a cover for the real assignment which is to solve a “cold case”—the disappearance of Vanger’s great niece, Harriet some 40 years earlier. During the assignment his Laptop is hacked and he discovers… Continue reading
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Inception
Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is a thief of secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a big fish in the world of corporate espionage, and as a result has a price on his head. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could… Continue reading
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Daybreakers
Its 2019, and humans are in short supply as most of them have succumbed to the temptation to be a vampire to enjoy immortality. Trouble is, the world is running out of humans on which to feed. A corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a blood substitute. however vampire… Continue reading
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Edge of Darkness
Thomas Craven (Mel) picks up his daughter, Emma who has returned home to visit. She vomits while getting into the car. At home, as Thomas prepares a meal, Emma starts to nosebleed and vomits again, and then says that she needs to see a doctor and tell him something. As they leave to find a… Continue reading
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Brothers
Tommy (Gyllenhaal) and Sam (Maguire)are brothers A Marine captain about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a family man married to his high school sweetheart, Grace, with two daughters. Tommy however, has just been released from jail for armed robbery when Sam leaves for Afghanistan. Soon news comes that Sam’s helicopter… Continue reading
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Iron Man 2
Stark has revealed his identity as Iron Man and is resisting calls by the United States government to hand over the technology. Ivan Vanko (Rourke) has a grudge against Stark has duplicated the technology and built weapons of his own. The action is good but the rest of the film is both confusing and boring… Continue reading
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Traitor
Samir Horn (Cheadle) a seemingly disaffected ex-soldier, is suspected of having links to a terrorist organisation and being involved with a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London but is he all that he seems? This had all the makings of a really good thriller, Cheadles good but it… Continue reading
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The Wrestler
Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) a professional wrestler was a big hit in the 80’s but now 20 years on, his popularity has declined, he’s still wrestling but only earning a little money in increasingly violent matches. It is after one of these that he suffers a heart attack and has to have a… Continue reading
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I love you, Man
Peter Klaven is about to be married but he has always been a “girlfriend guy” and he hasn’t actually got amy mates. Realising he needs some mates so he can have a best man. So he sets out to find himself some buddies, he even goes on “man dates”! We both really enjoyed this film.… Continue reading