Category Archives: True story

Frost/Nixon

9/10 (2008) Next week, Oprah Winfrey, the human car alarm, will sit down with disgraced cyclist and all-round egomaniac Lance Armstrong to discuss the unravelling of his recent web of lies. Unfortunately, instead of giving Armstrong a deserved grilling, I … Continue reading

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Argo

8 / 10 Have you ever heard of Lasse Viren?  He was a 23-year-old Finnish policeman who qualified for the 10,000m run at the 1972 Munich Olympics.  In the final, he tripped and fell, Gillard-style, just before the halfway mark.  All … Continue reading

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SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

3/10 Also known as Cazando a Bin Laden / Hunting Bin Laden Spoiler alert: Osama Bin Laden is killed at the end of this movie. Now I’m as happy as the next guy, that they finally killed Bin Laden (assuming the … Continue reading

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Changeling

3 / 10 2008: Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich.  The newspaper I get delivered at work is coming with a free DVD every day this week.  That’s 7 free movies for those unfamiliar with weeks.  During … Continue reading

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Red Dog

7 / 10 2011. I arrived at my mum’s house yesterday to see a DVD on the kitchen bench.  “What’s this?” I asked.  “Red Dog!” she replied, as if I had just asked her what planet we were currently on. … Continue reading

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The Intouchables

9 / 10 (2011) Directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. Starring Omar Sy and Francois Cluzet. The normal reaction to finding out that a Frenchman has lost the use of his body is, of course, hilarity.  So it shouldn’t be such a surprise that … Continue reading

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Machine Gun Preacher

5/10 Directed by: Marc Forster Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon Did you know that when you get baptised, God sends an angel straight down to Lowes to pick you up a nice pair of chinos and a crisp chequered shirt so … Continue reading

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

8/10 Directed by: Julian Schnabel Screenplay by: Ronald Harwood Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Max von Sydow “I can imagine anything”, utters former editor-in-chief of Elle, Jean-Do (played by Mattieu Amalric), before we are taken on an exhilarating jaunt of … Continue reading

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Moneyball

6 / 10 (Read Dicker’s review – 8/10) 2011.  Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote).  Screenplay by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York) and Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network).  Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. In this film adaptation of … Continue reading

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Cool Runnings

9 / 10 1993.  Disney.  Starring John Candy, Leon Robinson and a couple of others who you’ll remember when you see them. ’nuff people say, you know they can’t believe, Jamaica, we have a bob-sled team! They just don’t make them … Continue reading

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