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★★☆☆☆ If you’re a fan of amusing undead decapitations and bucket-loads of guts and gore, then up-and-coming director Matthias Hoene’s cheap and cheerful Cockneys vs Zombies (2012) will provide around about the same amount of entertainment as a decent game […]
★★★★☆ After the recent, turbulent News of the World scandal, the ethics and role of print media within a society addicted to social networking has become a major talking point. In keeping with this cultural fixation with the Great British […]
★☆☆☆☆ The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was the worst of its kind in history, with 300,000 people resettled due to an explosion in the fourth reactor. Thirty-one people died (that the Soviet authorities admitted to), and the fallout of radioactive contamination […]
★★☆☆☆ ‘Inspired’ (the use of this term must not be inferred as carrying any weight of vision) by the bestselling book of the same name, Kirk Jones’ What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012) is another contribution to the tiring […]
★★★☆☆ The directorial debut of Jonathan Cenzual Burley, El Alma de las Moscas (The Soul of Flies, 2010) is a charming and surreal Spanish indie comedy. Two brothers meet for the first time in front of an abandoned railway station […]