Max Payne (15)

Film ReviewsPublished November 25, 2008 at 9:28 No Comments

Max Payne unfortunately follows an abundance of game-to-film adaptations which seem excellent in premise, but are completely lacking in execution. Favouring style over substance, they leave fans disappointed and critics bewildered.
The story follows Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg), a haunted New York cop, assigned to the cold case unit from homicide, upon the murder of his wife
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (18)

Film ReviewsPublished November 25, 2008 at 9:19 No Comments

You could be forgiven for mistaking Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a tale of loveable losers Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri’s (Elizabeth Banks) desperate bid to pay the bills with a career in hardcore porn, for the latest offering from the Judd ‘Knocked Up’ Apatow stable. It shares a superficially crass premise that
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Pride and Glory (12a)

Film ReviewsPublished November 25, 2008 at 9:10 No Comments

Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) is forced to investigate his stepbrother Jimmy Egan (Collin Farrell) after four cops are found dead in a New York drug den. Family loyalties are further tested as father Francis Tierney Sr. (Jon Voight) and brother Francis Tierney Junior’s (Noah Emmrich) police roles come under scrutiny. After an odd opening (starting
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Eagle Eye (12a)

Carousel Film ReviewsPublished November 11, 2008 at 7:03 No Comments

Estranged from his family, broke, and mourning the death of his twin brother (who he hasn’t seen in three years), Jerry Shaw (Shia LeBeouf) returns home to find his apartment filled with various weaponry, multiple passports and a number of flight manuals. Understandably confused, he receives a phone call from a mysterious woman who informs
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