Mr Brooks (18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 25, 2008 11:48 PM

EARL Brooks is Portland’s man of the year, a successful businessman with a beautiful wife and a daughter. He’s also an addict – to killing. It’s his ultimate turn-on and he’s very good at it.

In the lead role, Kevin Costner battles with an alter ego, always pushing him on to the next “fix” while he stifles his urges at AA meetings.

His secret is in danger of being exposed when a double killing is witnessed by a neighbour.

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YEAR OF THE DOG

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 25, 2008 11:44 PM

THIS is a charming little tale of a woman who finds relationships with her dogs much easier and more rewarding than anything she really has with people.

Peggy’s life is thrown into turmoil when her latest dog, Pencil, is accidentally killed and she is offered the chance to adopt a troubled Alsatian.

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The Counterfeiters (15)

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 25, 2008 11:37 PM

THIS intriguing film looks at one of the less well known stories of World War II, the attempt by the Nazis to counterfeit huge amounts of pounds and dollars to bring Allied economies to their knees.

Our central character is Saloman “Sally” Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a crack Jewish forger operating in Berlin in the mid-1930s.

Eventually caught, he is sent to prison where his survival instincts find him earning extra privileges by painting portraits of the guards.

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PLANET TERROR (18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 5, 2008 8:29 AM

AFTER Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof comes the second part of the Grindhouse project, with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror.

The two directors’ homage to 70s slasher and Xploitation movies were originally intended for release as a double feature but the idea failed to grip audiences in America, and the films were turned into single features.

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THE SERPENT (15)

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 5, 2008 7:38 AM

REVENGE is everywhere in this slick French thriller, which starts relatively conventionally but delivers some real tension by its conclusion.

Vincent Mandel is going through a divorce and fighting for custody of his kids. An old friend, Joseph Plender, comes back into his life, offering friendship but actually determined to correct a wrong committed years before.

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Top Gear: The Great Adventures

Posted by Andy Kelly on March 4, 2008 8:34 AM

AS MUCH as I dislike Jeremy Clarkson and his pathetic “let’s just destroy the planet and not let the liberals spoil our fun” posturing, you can’t argue that himself, Richard Hammond and James May have turned what used to be a dull car programme about nought to sixties into some proper boys’ own adventures.

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