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Alan Dee: Picking away at the scab of my sticker sensibility

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:26:43 GMT

Last week, regular readers – and presumably the Pentagon – will be aware, I went on at some length about the irritation I was being forced to endure by a cash dispenser which only gave me a split second to grab my receipt before retracting it into the bowls of the machine in a bid to avoid littering.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: World War Z, Snitch, A Haunted House

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:40:09 GMT

The first thing to get sorted about Brad Pitt’s new summer blockbuster is whether you’ll be able to order tickets through that infuriating automated service so many multiplexes mistakenly swear by.

Matt Adcock’s film review: Man Of Steel

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:31:29 GMT

What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Hitchcock

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:02:57 GMT

HITCHCOCK (12: 20th Century Fox), a fact-based account of the making of the famous film director’s Psycho, is a disappointingly inconsequential affair.

Matt Adcock’s film review: After Earth

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:07:07 GMT

“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”

Alan Dee: Grinding my teeth over retractable receipts

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:49:33 GMT

It’s the little things that can be relied on to reach out, grab hold of the sensitive parts of my individual goat and squeeze hard, I always find.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Lincoln, Die Hard 5

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:37:36 GMT

Playing like The West Wing in stove-pipe hats, Steven Spielberg’s biopic LINCOLN (12: Twentieth Century Fox) may be a little stolid for some.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: Man Of Steel, Admission

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:50:14 GMT

Let’s be honest, when the version of Superman which most of us have hot-wired into our cinematic memory banks first hit the screen, we didn’t believe a man could fly despite what the tagline claimed.

Alan Dee: We’re walking into this with our eyes closed...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:11:21 GMT

So, here’s the proof, if any were needed: mobile phones are making us dimmer by the day, and it won’t be long before they take over the world.

Matt Adcock’s film review: The Purge

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:52:25 GMT

“Things like this don’t happen in neighbourhoods like ours…”

Alan Dee’s movie preview: After Earth, The Last Exorcism: Beginning Of The End

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:52:16 GMT

Smith & Son is the story we’re being sold for this week’s big new release – glossy special effects thriller After Earth features both Will and his boy Jaden, both of whom are perfectly bankable names bearing in minds their past successes.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Flight, Wreck-It Ralph

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:18:16 GMT

A typical vanity-free turn by Denzel Washington elevates FLIGHT (15: Paramount) from predictable melodrama to something a bit classier.

Matt Adcock’s film review: Fast & Furious 6

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:20 GMT

“Ride or die, remember?”

Alan Dee’s movie preview: The Big Wedding, The Purge

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:16 GMT

Once upon a time the name Robert de Niro above the title meant one thing – passionate, powerhouse performances rooted in blue-collar sensibilities, muscular masterpieces of method acting.

Have a nice day off on Monday? Then you’re a passenger, pal...

Sun, 26 May 2013 17:01:32 GMT

Something’s not right, and it’s up to us all to put our heads together to sort it out and come up with something better. Ready for a bit of a brainstorm?

Alan Dee: Tactics must change for next year’s Eurovision campaign

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:48:29 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this debriefing session of the GB Eurovision task force 2013.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: The Hangover Part 3, Epic

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:19:17 GMT

It’s not uncommon for those who have supped not wisely but too well to wake up the morning after and make heartfelt vows about their future behaviour.

Matt Adcock’s film review: The Great Gatsby

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:19:08 GMT

“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past….”