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Film review: X-Men – First Class Jun 03 2011

VERY good things come to those who wait. After the sinking ship of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and the pounding headache of The Hangover Part II, the omens were distinctly ill for this summer season.Read

Daily Post DVD reviews: 127 Hours and more Jun 03 2011

AVID mountain climber Aron Ralston meets Megan and Kristi, who are lost.Read

Film review: The Hangover II May 27 2011

TODD PHILLIPS’S hair of the dog to the highest grossing comedy film of 2009 is a 101-minute alcohol – and drug- fuelled – bender that strands the same beleaguered characters in the same hellish nightmare and watches them squirm.Read

Daily Post DVD reviews: The Crimson Petal and the White May 27 2011

THIS four-part BBC drama arrived amid some fanfare earlier this year and it more than lives up to its billing.Read

Film review: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 2 - Rodrick Rules May 27 2011

BASED on Jeff Kinney’s best-selling book, David Bowers’s sequel continues the trials of wise-cracking tyke Greg Heffley.Read

Film review: Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides May 20 2011

JOHNNY DEPP’S impressive resumé is littered with oddballs from Edward Scissorhands to Willy Wonka and the maddest Hatter ever to grace Alice’s Wonderland.Read

Film review: Win Win May 20 2011

TOM McCARTHY’S latest character study is a delight, elegantly navigating the emotional ebb and flow of small town protagonists with earthy humour.Read

DVD reviews: Blonde Fist (15) May 20 2011

I’D REALLY wanted to love Blonde Fist, writer and director Frank Clarke’s 1990s Kirkby tale, starring his sister Margi and now released on DVD for the first time.Read

Film review: The Way May 13 2011

A GRIEVING patriarch walks in the footsteps of his late son in The Way, which sees Emilio Estevez direct father Martin Sheen.Read

DVD reviews: Black Swan and Gulliver's Travels May 13 2011

I FIRST saw Black Swan just a day after the King’s Speech, and it is this film which stays with you, rather than the ultra-safe, though brilliantly acted, Colin Firth piece.Read

It’s the hoodies vs. the space invaders May 13 2011

TIME and again, when extraterrestrials invade Earth, they choose the trigger-happy United States of America as the point of inception.Read

Film review: Water for Elephants May 06 2011

TWILIGHT pin-up Robert Pattinson puts a little colour in his cheeks in Francis Lawrence’s gorgeously framed adaptation of the novel by Sara Gruen about a doomed love affair in a 1930s circus troupe.Read

Daily Post DVD reviews: The King's Speech and more May 06 2011

WHEN Love triumphs over duty and Edward VIII abdicates, his brother Albert (Colin Firth) is forced into the spotlight.Read

Film review: Cedar Rapids Apr 29 2011

NICE guys rarely finish first – there is always someone willing to play dirty to get ahead.Read

Daily Post DVD reviews: The Green Hornet and more Apr 29 2011

WHEN party-loving Britt (Seth Rogen) inherits a media empire, he forges an unlikely friendship with chauffeur Kato (Jay Chou) and together they fight crime on the city streets.Read

Film review: Arthur Apr 22 2011

MONEY makes the world go around, but it can’t buy you love or a flawless update of the Oscar-winning 1981 comedy starring Dudley Moore as the eponymous billionaire and Sir John Gielgud as his long-suffering, strait-laced butler.Read

Film review: Beastly Apr 22 2011

DANIEL BARNZ’S reworking of Beauty And The Beast undermines its message about substance over style by sacrificing characterisation for glossy visuals.Read

DVD reviews: The Tourist and more Apr 22 2011

FRANK TUPELO (Johnny Depp) is a mathematics teacher from Wisconsin haunted by tragedy.Read

Movie review: Rio is grand fun for all the family Apr 08 2011

CARLOS SALDANHA, director of the phenomenally successful Ice Age films, ventures to sunnier climes for this joyous computer-animated romantic comedy.Read

Moview review: TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN (12A)Rating: lll Apr 08 2011

BASED on the series of seven books by John Marsden, which have sold more than 2.5m copies, Tomorrow, When The War Began, unfolds from the perspective of eight teenagers caught up in an unimaginable conflict.Read

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