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by | 29/06/2012 · 2:05 am

FILM REVIEW – Moonrise Kingdom

By Ian McCabe

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is back, at last, with the delightfully quirky Moonrise Kingdom, his seventh live action feature. Set in 1965 in the quaint New England town of New Penzance, it follows two fleeing unpopular young lovers and their ensuing search party of parents, the town’s police captain and the American Boy Scouts. It stars newcomers Kara Haywood and Jared Gilman alongside Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton and received a limited cinema release on the 25th May 2012.

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by | 26/06/2012 · 10:09 pm

FILM REVIEW – A Bronx Tale (Blu-ray)

By Marty Mulrooney

A Bronx Tale - Blu-ray

A Bronx Tale is an American crime drama originally released in 1993. The directorial debut of actor Robert De Niro (who also stars), the film tells the story of Calogero Anello (Lillo Brancato, Jr.), a young man torn between his hardworking father Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) and local mafia boss Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) in the 1960s. Palminteri also wrote the script and it is based in part upon his childhood. The film was released by StudioCanal for the first time on Blu-ray on the 18th June 2012.

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by | 06/06/2012 · 2:43 pm

FILM REVIEW – Prometheus

By Marty Mulrooney

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Prometheus is a science fiction film directed by iconic English film director and producer Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator). The film serves as a loose prequel to his 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, taking place in the same universe whilst exploring new themes and grander ideas. At the end of the 21st century, a team of scientists travel on the spaceship Prometheus to a distant planet in search of the ‘Engineers’ who created mankind and all life on earth.

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by | 25/05/2012 · 2:47 pm

FILM REVIEW – The Raid

By Marty Mulrooney

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The Raid is an Indonesian action film written and directed by Welsh film director Gareth Evans. Originally released in 2011 and now finding a worldwide release in 2012, the film stars Indonesian martial arts actor Iko Uwais, who was discovered by Evans whilst shooting a documentary about the martial art Pencak Silat in 2007. Uwais stars as rookie cop Rama, part of a 20-man SWAT team tasked with raiding a 30-floor derelict apartment building that has long served as a safe house for the city’s killers, gangsters and murderers, all overseen by the fearsome crime lord Tama Riyadi.

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