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Review of Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

This is aimed at the faithful rather than casual music fans, but the evangelical fervour shines through…

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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

The movie is compulsively too much, throwing everything it can think of at you, in case it fails to entertain…

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Review of Noah (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

Noah manages the miracle of Crowe shouting at the heavens without looking absurd, not to mention the miracle of bringing the Bible movie back…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

Noah manages the miracle of Crowe shouting at the heavens without looking absurd, not to mention the miracle of bringing the Bible movie back…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

Noah manages the miracle of Crowe shouting at the heavens without looking absurd, not to mention the miracle of bringing the Bible movie back…

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Review of A Story of Children and Film (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

Idiosyncratic essay about children in movies from all over the world; the commentary is a bit precious but the clips are intriguing…

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Review of Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Apr 2014

Half Of A Yellow Sun deserves recognition for its ambition, tenacity and intentions, even it's not quite a full throttle experience…

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Review of The Zero Theorem (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Mar 2014

Time enough for all of us to move on - but not, alas, Gilliam, whose personal projects often seem to fiddle obsessively with the same themes…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Mar 2014

Despite hyperbolic acting, this is a dull-witted combination of ancient Greece and modern CGI - and the 3D element means that everyone bleeds…

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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Mar 2014

The plot between high-octane chases feels like a used car cut-and-shut…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 03 Mar 2014

Every shot is gorgeously framed, with screwball rhythms patterned after 1930s European ironists such as Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder…

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Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 16 Feb 2014

In a nutshell it feels like a forgery, and not a particularly artful one…

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Review of Winter's Tale (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 16 Feb 2014

Goldsman's directorial debut is decorated by an A-list cast (watch out for Will Smith, if you must), one can only assume that he has their…

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Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 16 Feb 2014

Notable already for its depiction of real sex, it's explicit in other ways too: a depiction of amoral attraction that deserves a wider audience…

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Review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 16 Feb 2014

Hiddleston and Swinton are lovely to watch, but they need more to chew on than this…

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Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Feb 2014

Jose Padilha's update employs many of the same moves, but not the original's sly, subversive humour…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Feb 2014

Frost and the cast have obviously trained hard to avoid being murder on the dance floor, but the inept script is like Strictly Come Dancing…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Feb 2014

Few will recall their time-travelling adventures from the 50s and 60s, but the update is surprisingly bright, sweet and suitable for its target…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Feb 2014

The whole thing is a Danish interlocking brick system fever dream - and a kick in the pants, if not the groin, to filmmakers who dare follow it…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Feb 2014

A beautifully shot provocation that is more interesting as a conversation on the way home than as an experience in the cinema…

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