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Review of The Company You Keep (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 25 Apr 2013

Whether RR's too old, as many have suggested, for the more thriller-ish elements here, there's no doubt that he's very fine and still seriously…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 13 Apr 2013

a yawner plot set-up that leads to lots of wannabe off-colour gags, a small army of pursuing villains and an expected final act in which…

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Review of Promised Land (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 13 Apr 2013

Quietly powerful, this has a fine cast and yet it's very much Damon's movie, as he delivers his finest, most subtly nuanced performance yet…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 13 Apr 2013

Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer's cool performance and…

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Review of Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 13 Apr 2013

Walking a fine line between darkly compassionate comedy, biting reality, striking low-budget fantasy and harsh psychological honesty, this…

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Review of The Loneliest Planet (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 21 Mar 2013

This load of tediously existential nonsense from writer/director Julia Loktev has been bizarrely celebrated as a profound artistic and feminist…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 17 Mar 2013

You've got to love any movie that features an army of rollicking Munchkins getting halfway through a Danny Elfman song before, basically, they're…

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Review of Blinder (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 07 Mar 2013

What's meant to be ploddingly glum drama ostensibly about Aussie Rules footy proves to be a humourless study of forgiveness, redemption and…

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Review of Blinder (2014)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 07 Mar 2013

What's meant to be ploddingly glum drama ostensibly about Aussie Rules footy proves to be a humourless study of forgiveness, redemption and…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 07 Mar 2013

As Burns' screenplay takes yet another dark alternate route, our heavily-medicated contemporary society is fearlessly placed under the microscope…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 07 Mar 2013

As Burns' screenplay takes yet another dark alternate route, our heavily-medicated contemporary society is fearlessly placed under the microscope…

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Review of Great Expectations (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 07 Mar 2013

Suitably grimy (if not as filthy as last year's Wuthering Heights), this is notable for its performances…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 28 Feb 2013

Director Richard LaGravenese helms this dark-magic romantic fantasy, and it's surprisingly better than the unfair label with which it's been…

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Review of I Give It a Year (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 28 Feb 2013

Given the propensity here for being 'outrageous', it's nice that the central foursome of players are so appealing…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 28 Feb 2013

This beautifully-handled, deeply devastating work is all about the most human issue of all: we're all headed for the scrap-heap…

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Review of The Last Stand (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 28 Feb 2013

The film, though underdeveloped, is rife with big guns, flippant one-liners, improbable battles, high-octane car chases and way too much testosterone…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 04 Feb 2013

Perhaps the biggest problem is its labelling as a 'Disaster Movie', as this is in fact intended as a study of the power - and the stubbornness…

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Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 04 Feb 2013

Yet for every witty line or cool cameo there's a most Apatowian artificiality, especially considering he's cast his actual family members in…

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Review of Flight (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 04 Feb 2013

There's no doubt that audiences used to him as Malcolm X or 'Hurricane' Carter will be appalled by the sight of him completely off his face…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 04 Feb 2013

Still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare…

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