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Review - We Were Soldiers : Remastered

Apart from non-stop battle scenes, the movie allows you to meet the families of the men who fought the battle and, more poignantly, lets you watch their wives as they receive telegrams delivered by taxis that tell them their loved ones are dead or wounded.

Review - We Own The Night

There's nothing else in the world that can get a movie off to a cracking start quite like watching Eva Mendes getting hot and heavy with herself. Forget the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark - Eva is the way to lure punters in!

Review - Futurama : Beast With A Billion Backs

The second of four all-new feature-length adventures which follows the latest extraterrestrial exploits of Bender, Fry, Leela and a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles (or as we later learn "Genta-ticals").

Review - Charlie Wilson's War

In the film, Tom Hanks takes on the real-life role of Charlie Wilson, a playboy congressman who teams up with a renegade CIA agent (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and a beautiful Houston socialite (Julia Roberts) to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history.

Review - The Kite Runner

There are very few films which come along under the guise of "Oscar Favourite" and actually live up to the expectations. But rarely, oh so rarely, a film comes along that conveys a message so profound - it's near impossible to ignore.

Review - The Tattooist

This creepy little flick which channels The Ring follows an American tattoo artist who gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoos, and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit.

Review - Definately Maybe

You know when you go to a local hamburger joint (where they cook with real mince & vegetables bought from the market earlier in the day) and it just blows you away when you compare it to a McDonald's burger? Definitely, Maybe is that Local Joint burger.

Review - Dan In Real Life

Steve Carell goes for a mood that's more Little Miss Sunshine and less The 40 Year-Old Virgin in this wry tale of Dan, a single dad who goes to spend a holiday with his very large extended family, only to fall in love with his brother's girlfriend.  

Review - National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets

National Treasure 2 is pure surgary junk. The jokes fall flat, there is no chemistry what so ever with the cast, the plot is down right ludicrous - and Nicholas Cage's teeth look like they were stolen from the set of The Mask.

Review - Eagle vs Shark

Jemaine Clement is superb as the deadpan and undeservedly arrogant Jarrod, and without doubt the star of the flick. While you tend to get the nagging feeling that it's far too close to Napoleon Dynamite the film is still ridiculously funny and entertaining.

Review - Walk Hard : Special Edition

Was it inspired by the success of the cheap & nasty Epic/Date/Scary Movie franchise? Was it a guilty pleasure? Or was it simply because the movie studio threw a buttload of cash at Apatow to create something that wouldn't cost them to much and would allow him to screw around with his mates.

Review - Rendition

The cast seem somewhat under used - with each seeming to have been rationed one 'Oscar clip' scene each. And, aside from those brief moments where they are allowed to truly shine (especially Streep and Arkin), they all seem to be on auto pilot.

Review - Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out

While Chris Rock is travelling around the world breaking ridiculous audience size records, Tony Robinson's first one-man comedy show is located in a fairly run down town hall in some obscure English village. However once you get past the poor acoustics this truly turns into a unique piece of theatre.

Review - Gumby : The 50s and 60s

Adored by young and old alike, Gumby is the instantly recognisable little clay boy (that's right, a claymation hero that isn't Wallace OR Gromit) whose wild adventures his friends Pokey, Prickly and Goo, Gumby spread a message of friendship and compassion that continues to be relevant today.

Review - The Golden Compass

The film serves as a paint-by-numbers approach to the fantasy genre and will certainly please little ones who are amazed by talking animals and magical mischief.

Review - The Reef

The show revolved around the last human being in the universe, Dave Lister, a Chicken Soup Machine Repair Man. Throw into the mix a deadpan computer called Holly with an IQ of 6,000 and a feline humanoid who evolved from the ship's cat for company. What you have is a pretty odd concoction... and the host of Robot Wars.

Review - The Odd Couple : The Complete First Season

When it comes to The Odd Couple you are in either one of two camps (and no, I'm not talking about whether your a Felix or Oscar fan) - but moreso - whether you are a Matthau / Lemmon person or a Randall / Klugman person.

Review - The Reef

It's the cheap sort of Hollywood cash in which can really best be described as 'the deformed offspring of Nemo and Shark Tale which it's parents make live in the attic' - and thats being kind!

Review - The Last Legion

There is really little area to cover left when it comes to these period epics, with Alexander, Troy, King Aurther all trampling similar ground - and they all seem to have one thing in common: not one of them did business even close to that of Gladiator's. So while Legion isn't offering anything to new, it's still a welcome addition to the often overcrowded genre.

Review - Enchanted

This surprisingly enjoyable fish-out-of-water (well, more accurately: Princess out of Pencil) tale is a fantastically fun, touching and endlessly tongue in cheek affair in which classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York.

Review - Dirt : The Complete First Season

While Entourage certainly opened the door to TV exploring a more realistic look at the highs and lows of the Hollywood machine, it wasn't until the Courtney Cox / David Arquette produced Dirt hit screens that the gloss of super stardom was well and truly washed away.

Review - I'm Not There - Special Edition

This fractured biopic looking at the life and legend of Bob Dylan from director Todd Haynes has a lot going for it. Unfortunately, pretty much all of its good points end up cancelling each other out, leaving behind a film that might resonate with devoted Dylan fans.