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Review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire does something unheard of for a science fiction thriller - it makes a remarkable comeback in its second half…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The first thing you notice are the horns. They're impressive…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

X-Men: Days of Future Past is like the world's most dazzling wedding cake…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

If you believe the persona that Liberace displayed to the public, then you might well believe that the man never had a dull moment in his life…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

Even the loneliest man who ever lived had a mother and a father…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

It is nearly impossible to make a film about terminal illness and not make it heartfelt…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

It is hard to be too critical of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second leg of Peter Jackson's three-legged trilogy…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

Of all the problems that plague Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - and there are many - possibly the most curious is that he is haunted…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The world around Theodore Twombly contains a lot of empty space. In his job, in his social life, and in his heart, he is a lonely man…

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Review of August: Osage County (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

August: Osage County is a miserable experience…

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Review of To the Wonder (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

If you know Terrence Malick's work, then you pretty much know what you're walking into when you attend his movies…

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Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

It's hard to hate a movie that involves fried bats…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The Dallas Buyers Club opens with a scene that doesn't mean much at first. We are at a rodeo; bull and rider are let out of the pen…

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Review of Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The Muppets are overjoyed to find themselves in yet another sequel…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

The remake of Robocop is a colossal miscalculation…

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Review of Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

It is reasonable to assume that since Saving Mr…

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Review of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

It may no longer be possible to make a successful biopic that captures the entire sweep of a man's life…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is barely 20 seconds along when an ominous title on the screen reminds us that Life in space is impossible…

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Review of Too Sane for This World (2011)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

I am sort of ashamed to admit that my mental image of autism runs immediately to Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Armchair O (122) on 15 Sep 2015

Forget, for a moment, that Blue is the Warmest Colour is the story about two women in love…

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