Review of “Smother”

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The release of this film – about a son and his totally batty mother - is clearly designed to coincide with Mother’s day. It’s a concept film then, in the same vein as those Christmas or Halloween movies that Hollywood makes as product to sell on the back of a calendar event, and perhaps it […]

Review of “Made of Honour”

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Four jokes and a wedding are about the sum contents of this mostly lame, occasionally cute romantic-comedy, which borrows so heavily from its superior predecessors that you might think you were watching scenes cut straight from somewhere else. The movie’s predictability is only matched by the trouble the writers had squeezing any humour out of […]

Interview with Burt & Linda Pugach

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Would you marry an ex-convict, someone convicted of assault, someone who had spent 14 years behind bars? Perhaps. But what if you had been the victim of that person’s brutality, and the attack on you had been chemicals thrown in your face, leaving you partially blind and disfigured? Would you - could you - marry […]

Review of “21″

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Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) wants to switch from the prestigious university MIT – where he’s top of every class – to the even more prestigious Harvard. He has the brains, the grades and the drive, but he just doesn’t have the $300,000 required for fees. So when the chances of getting the only fully paid […]