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Your-Big-Break - Tim McLachlan

Your-Big-Break - Tim McLachlan

“Your-Big-Break” is something everyone looks for in life and especially if you’re in the world of the arts. So when a film competition was announced called “Your-Big-Break” it didn’t take long for people all over the world to enter it.

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Movie Review - Alice In Wonderland

Movie Review - Alice In Wonderland

‘Alice In Wonderland’ is one of those iconic stories that most kids growing up in the western world knows and I’d say would love.

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Movie Review - 9

Movie Review - 9

With the glut of animated CG films that are around these days it’s hard to stand out from the crowd...unless you’re a Pixar film that is. So when I saw the trailer for ‘9’ it really stuck in my mind as it seemed unlike any other CG film I had seen before.

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Movie Review - Precious

Movie Review - Precious

It’s not often I will choose to go and see an out-and-out drama at the cinema as I find there's a fine line in making a good drama.

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DVD Review - Bruno

DVD Review - Bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen is the man who brought us Ali G and Borat, characters who filled us with laughter and gave us many cringe worthy moments.

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Movie Review - The Hurt Locker

Movie Review - The Hurt Locker

At this year’s Academy Awards ‘Hurt Locker’ is the film to beat as it has been the front runner at many different award shows so far and is looking to have built up the steam needed to walk away with the top prizes.

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Movie Review - The Wolfman

Movie Review - The Wolfman

If there’s one genre I’m almost always a fan of it is werewolf films but I’m never a fan of when they are ‘dumbed down’ and vampires are given the higher billing.

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Movie Review - Shutter Island

Movie Review - Shutter Island

A Martin Scorsese film always comes with a sense of anticipation as he’s one of the few big directors who can really create art with their films.

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Blu-Ray Review - Fight Club

Blu-Ray Review - Fight Club

‘Fight Club’ was a ground breaking film in many ways and made its director David Fincher and lead actor Brad Pitt, launch into the top flight of Hollywood.

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Movie Review - Invictus

Movie Review - Invictus

Never before has a large budget Hollywood film focused on the life of Nelson Mandela, or even rugby for that matte, but in one fell swoop Clint Eastwood has brought us the film ‘Invictus’ with Morgan Freeman acting as Mandela and Matt Damon playing the nation's rugby captain Francois

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