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TROLL HUNTER / TROLLJEGEREN
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.09.11 Through negligence on my own part of much knowledge on the national cinema of Norway, and through the general lack of films centered on Trolls, save the fantasy/horror trilogy of the 1980’s and ’90’s (Troll, 1986, John Paul Bucehler and sequels) which I haven’t seen, and have no particular desire to see, the…
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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE
Odeon East Kilbride, 27.08.11- The very British cinema genre of successful television comedy going to the big screen is one littered with disasters. Think of the poor feature-length versions of On The Buses (1971, Harry Booth), Porridge (1979, Dick Clement), Bean (1997, Mel Smith), or the nadir of them all, the deplorable Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000, Ed Bye). …
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ONE DAY
Odeon East Kilbride, 24.08.11 The novel One Day by David Nicholls takes the typical boy meets girl story and spreads it over twenty years by focusing on where each of the main characters, Emma and Dexter, are on one day – the 15th of July – every year from 1988 to 2008. It’s a neat trick…
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COWBOYS & ALIENS
Odeon East Kilbride, 21.08.11 After the success of Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011) at the start of the month, the summer of films has taken something of an upturn in fortune, which continues with Jon Favreau’s latest action genre mash-up, Cowboys & Aliens. Like Super 8, Cowboys & Aliens has taken a tried and tested genre,…
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RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Odeon East Kilbride, 17.08.11 Along with the trend in recent years for the Hollywood studios to rely more and more on sequels and known franchises for their big budget summer films. Rather than recognising that a franchise is dead, has run its course and every possible storyline has been mined, studios have begun rebooting films in order…
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Iain Kelly 