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Review of The Spectacular Now (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 11 Dec 2013

This low-budget production is all about the performances, with Kyle Chandler turning up late in the piece as Sutter's father, Smashed's Mary…

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Review of How I Live Now (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 08 Dec 2013

This latest from director Kevin Macdonald (of pics like The Last King Of Scotland and State Of Play) is drawn from a 'young adult' novel by…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

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

This classic worm-turns tale rights a few of the original's wrongs and offers a sad and scary performance by Moretz, although she's almost…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

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

This classic worm-turns tale rights a few of the original's wrongs and offers a sad and scary performance by Moretz, although she's almost…

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Review of 20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

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

While major names turn up for interviews (a gracious Bruce Springsteen, a funny Mick Jagger, a technical Sting), this is primarily all about…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

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

This might play the saga as a psychodrama with a bit of Bourne and even 'bromance' and yet, nevertheless, it works, and Cumberbatch is as close…

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Review of Thor: The Dark World (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 06 Nov 2013

Chris Hemsworth's third go at playing god/superhero/whatever Thor is still fun enough, and new director Alan Taylor knows that there has to…

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Review of Blancanieves (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 30 Oct 2013

Inspired, perhaps, by The Artist, writer/director/producer Pablo Berger's handsome Spanish production (with English subtitles) updates the…

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Review of Captain Phillips (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 30 Oct 2013

A dramatic thriller that's also a 'message movie' concerned with the effects of globalisation, this offers fine work from Hanks in serious…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 30 Oct 2013

Multi-tasker Robert Rodriguez sequelises his Machete, originally a joke trailer in Grindhouse, and manages one of his most messy and (even…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 22 Oct 2013

Director Richard Curtis' third film in the top job is a more daring effort than the more conventional (and messy) Love Actually, with a central…

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Review of Diana (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 09 Oct 2013

Hirschbiegel turns to another dead celebrity with this biopic, following the plight of Princess Di in the last 2 years of her life…

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Review of Gravity (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 08 Oct 2013

Hugely moving and even, at times, terrifying, this is, without a doubt, the best mainstream American pic of the year thus far - gasp…

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Review of Rush (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 08 Oct 2013

With fine performances, extraordinary evocations of key races, a sweaty '70s feel and a celebratory aspect as we fondly remember two diehard…

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Review of Planes (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 02 Oct 2013

Beautifully (duh!) and expensively (duh squared…

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Review of Lovelace (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 02 Oct 2013

Star/co-producer Amanda Seyfried is strong in this 'Linda Lovelace' biopic from co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, but she's not…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 02 Oct 2013

This is a hard-to-classify and very personal doco, a study of the stories families tell each other and the stories we tell ourselves, regardless…

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Review of Planes (2012)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 02 Oct 2013

Beautifully (duh!) and expensively (duh squared…

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Review of Turbo (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 23 Sep 2013

The latest DreamWorks animation epic Turbo offers gorgeous imagery (duh), a nifty star vocal cast, some sweet gags and a plot that, even by…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 18 Sep 2013

The third installment in Vin Diesel's adventures as über-badass, glowing contacts-wearing murderer Riddick begins like the original Pitch…

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