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Film review – Out of the Furnace (2013)

22 March 2014 Thomas Caldwell

There is something mythical about the American blue-collar town where Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace is set. The hardworking and racially harmonious population are

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Film review – The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

19 July 2012 Thomas Caldwell

The most striking thing about the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is it looks like a real film. In an era when shooting

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Cinema Autopsy on the 83rd Academy Awards winners

1 March 2011 Thomas Caldwell

Wow. Did I do a terrible job this year with my Academy Award predictions. I got a total of seven categories right and none of

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Film review – The Fighter (2010)

31 January 2011 Thomas Caldwell

Mark Wahlberg teams up once more with Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell to play real life boxer “Irish” Micky Ward.

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Film review – Public Enemies (2009)

6 July 2009 Thomas Caldwell

Set in America in the 1930s, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Public Enemies portrays the bold activities of celebrity bank robber John Dillinger

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Film review – Terminator Salvation (2009)

31 May 2009 Thomas Caldwell

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the latest instalment in The Terminator series follows on from where audiences last saw John Connor at the end of

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