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  • House at the End of the Street 2012

    ★★★ Watched 19 May, 2013

    Solid horror/shocker starring Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Shue as daughter and mother who uproot from Chicago to the countryside. They are renting cheaply as the house next door was the scene of an horrific murder. Soon Alyssa (Lawrence) gets to know Ryan, the brother of the girl who murdered her parents. However he has a secret in the cellar....

    Nicely twisty tale, with both Lawrence and Shue giving performances better than the script deserves. Plus Gil Bellows pops up in a welcome role as the doomed police chief

  • Total Recall 2012

    ★★★ Watched 17 May, 2013

    Ah bless! This remake really wants to replicate the look and feel of 'Blade Runner' but all it gets right is the rain and big coats.

    Colin Farrel stars as Doug, Kate Beckinsale as the pretend missus and Jessica Biel in the Melina role (and an ace Bryan Cranston as Cohagen). No Mars this time, which is disappointing, instead we are stuck on a polluted earth where there are two main population centres; the United Federation of Britain (WTF?) and…

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  • Argo 2012

    ★★★½ Watched 10 Feb, 2013

    Slightly disappoined by this. It has such potential but I was put off by Affleck walking around for most of the film like a tall lump of misery with a beard. He should have used another lead and just stuck to directing as the parts he was not in felt much brighter, particularly those with Cranston, playing his CIA boss and Goodman and Arkin, the two Hollywood connections. The hostages themselves melded into a mass of moustaches and Deirdre Barlow…

  • The Grey 2012

    ★★½ Watched 18 Jan, 2013

    Liam Neeson leads a group of plane crash survivors through the snowy wilderness as they get picked off, one by one, by dire wolves. Introspective, slow and doesn't live up to its promise. Beautiful scenery though.