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  • Star Trek Into Darkness 2013

    ★★★½ Added

    It's hard not to love 'Star Trek Into Darkness', then again it's also hard not be a bit annoyed with it too; it's.... you know in school, when you had that friend who always got high marks, but you knew first hand that they weren't really trying that hard? That's STID.

    STID... yikes, that sounds, communicable.

    Ahem. Yeah. The film has got all the right ingredients; strong character work, BC as an unctuous, velvet voiced baddie, big explosions, and an…

  • Iron Man 3 2013

    ★★★ Added

    The Dark Iron Man Rises...

    Grittier, bit darker and more concerned with the 'Man' than the 'Iron', and while none of that is necessarily a bad thing; it's failed to hit the spot. Iron Man 3 takes the gift of previous backstories as fuel to reach the giddy heights of its ambitions; namely a psychological examination of a superhero...

    Except....

    It all boils down to yet another boss-fight where the amps are cranked up to 11 but its hard to…

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  • The Artist 2011

    ★★★★★ Added

    Jean DuJardin channels Gene Kelly's smile. Interesting and classy. Includes beautiful cinematography... And a loveable mutt.

  • A League of Their Own 1992

    ★★★★ Added

    A really decent baseball picture, characters possessing depth and in the case of Geena Davis' Dotty unusual inscrutability.

    An interesting film about women that feels confident and deft enough that it doesn't need to ram its message down your throat.