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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

It seems a long time since director J J Abrams set the brand new crew of the Starship Enterprise up for a series of rebooted adventures but, in reality, only four years have passed since his critical and commercial hit Star Trek.Read

Movie Review: Dead Man Down

Dead Man Down is original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev’s first foray into English-language feature films.Read

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

Marvel’s first solo project since last summer’s Avengers Assemble sees the return of Robert Downey Jr as billionaire inventor Tony Stark.Read

Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen

If you were the American President and the White House came under attack, you could probably do a lot worse than choose 300’s King Leonidas to save your bacon.Read

Movie review: Dark Skies

This alien invasion flick doesn’t have the White House blown to smithereens, Tom Cruise running past vapourised Americans or Joaquin Phoenix swinging a baseball bat.Read

Movie Review: Snitch

Another week, another dose of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson battering heads... or at least that’s what I expected.Read

Movie Review: G.I. Joe - Retaliation

Whisper it, but I actually enjoyed the first G.I. Joe movie in 2009.Read

Movie Review: Stolen

Ah, the Nicolas Cage ‘B’ movie. It has quickly became a staple of cinema every year.Read

Movie Review: The Paperboy

Booed at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, most headlines focusedon a scene where Nicole Kidman urinates on Zac Efron.Read

Movie Review: Parker

Peanut butter and jelly. Music couple Avril Lavigne and Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. All strange combinations.Read

Movie Review: Broken City

Broken City is Allen Hughes’ first solo directing effort after previous collaborations with twin brother Albert (From Hell).Read

Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel - Witch Hunters

Oh dear. It’s hard to imagine the Brothers Grimm being very pleased by the treatment their classic fairy tale gets here.Read

Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Matrix trilogy directors the Wachowski siblings team up with Run Lola Run helmer Tom Tykwer to bring British author David Mitchell’s sprawling sci-fi novel to the big screen.Read

Movie Review: This Is 40

Writer and director Judd Apatow’s “sort of” sequel to 2007 comedy Knocked Up focuses on secondary characters from that film, married couple Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), and the impact turning 40 has on both their lives.Read

Movie Review: Hitchcock

In 1960 legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock scared audiences silly with Psycho, one of my favourite movies of all time.Read

Movie Review: Flight

If you have a fear of flying, then there’s one sequence in Flight that’s not going to help you take to the skies.Read

Movie Review: Lincoln

Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis team up to memorable effect to bring the story of America’s 16th President to the big screen.Read

Movie Review: Django Unchained

The eighth film by Quentin Tarantino is the director’s tribute to the spaghetti western genre, with the 1966 movie Django acting as an inspiration.Read

The Blackout, picture by Marcus Maschwitz

The Blackout look to start the party at King Tut's

The Blackout are currently touring to promote their new album "Start the Party" and will play two gigs at King Tut's on Sunday.Read

Movie Review: Jack Reacher

My first review of 2013 sees Tom Cruise continue to put actors decades younger to shame by proving that age hasn’t diminished his considerable action chops.Read

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