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4/5
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Home
(2008)
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Rob Daniel
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Ursula Meier's Home is one of the strangest horror films of recent years, a real get under the skin movie.
Posted Mar 29, 2024
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3/5
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Jurassic Park III
(2001)
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Sky Staff
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Ptera-fyingly good fun.
Posted Jun 27, 2019
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3/5
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Godzilla Raids Again
(1955)
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Sky Staff
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Still, it's good fun, if you like watching a couple of guys in monster suits trashing model cities that is.
Posted May 24, 2019
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2/5
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Immortal Beloved
(1994)
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Sky Staff
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Puffed up and pompous, but puny, this is a stodgy pudding of a film that moves at a snail's pace and tries unsuccessfully to accommodate wildly different performing styles from actors of various countries.
Posted May 24, 2019
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The Buddy Holly Story
(1978)
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Sky Staff
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This really is a remarkable re-creation of a singer whose skill with music placed him in the same category as The Beatles a few years later.
Posted May 23, 2019
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2/5
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
(1975)
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Sky Staff
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With its incredible tatty special effects and outer-space dialogue, it runs like a lesser serial from the Forties.
Posted May 09, 2019
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5/5
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Some Like It Hot
(1959)
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Sky Staff
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A milestone comedy to watch again and again.
Posted Apr 22, 2019
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2/5
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The Holiday
(2006)
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Elliott Noble
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Grindingly predictable and sickeningly convenient, it's as false as a plastic tree.
Posted Apr 02, 2019
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3/5
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The Cell
(2000)
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Dalia Levy
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A must-see for fans of dark psychological thrillers.
Posted Apr 01, 2019
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4/5
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American Dreamz
(2006)
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Elliott Noble
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Both delights and contrivances combine to provide a bombshell final reel that is at least a dozen shades darker than anyone would expect.
Posted Apr 01, 2019
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3/5
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Xanadu
(1980)
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Sky Staff
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Engagingly surrealistic in a pop-glitter way.
Posted Apr 01, 2019
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4/5
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Hot Rod
(2007)
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Tim Evans
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He'll break a few ribs -- you'll split your sides.
Posted Mar 31, 2019
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3/5
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But I'm a Cheerleader
(1999)
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Sky Staff
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It's hard to decide whether this is funny, offensive, satirical or all three.
Posted Mar 31, 2019
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4/5
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
(2006)
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Elliott Noble
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With nary a cheap, under-powered motor in sight, this hairpinning if hare-brained sequel goes about its tyre-squealing business with reckless aplomb.
Posted Mar 31, 2019
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3/5
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Reign of Fire
(2002)
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Tim Evans
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If you are prepared to overlook the gaping holes in the plot (how did the Yanks wind up on Tyneside?) then this one definitely has wings.
Posted Mar 31, 2019
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1/5
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Reefer Madness
(1936)
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Sky Staff
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This gloriously awful film is highly recommended to lovers of stunningly bad movies.
Posted Mar 30, 2019
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3/5
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Blade
(1998)
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Sky Staff
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Toothsome fantasy action stuff done with considerable bite.
Posted Mar 29, 2019
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3/5
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Jennifer's Body
(2009)
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Sky Staff
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Juno scriptwriter Diablo Cody puts her poison pen to work in a slippery comic horror that unfolds like a gutted high-schooler's intestines.
Posted Mar 28, 2019
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4/5
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Zardoz
(1974)
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Sky Staff
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Whatever your verdict, you'll agree that Sean Connery compels attention...
Posted Mar 27, 2019
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3/5
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Over the Top
(1987)
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Sky Staff
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The film is on the long side for its story, as it's basically an unassuming little tug-of-love tale. But you'll be cheering for Sly on both custody and arm-wrestling fronts at the artfully-staged finale.
Posted Mar 27, 2019
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3/5
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I Come in Peace
(1990)
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Sky Staff
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The result is what you might call a blast.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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The Watcher in the Woods
(1980)
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Sky Staff
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This being an early Eighties Disney film, there aren't too many headless corpses lurking in the house and surrounding woods, but there are still some genuine shivers.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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4/5
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Road House
(1989)
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Sky Staff
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Girls, guns and good, old-fashioned fisticuffs - missing this is like a smack in the chops.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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4/5
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Teen Wolf
(1985)
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Sky Staff
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The tail, sorry, tale, climaxes with a very well choreographed basketball game as the ghoul-in-school fights to go straight and avoid a lifetime of biting the mailman and dodging silver bullets.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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4/5
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Hello, Dolly!
(1969)
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Sky Staff
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[Barbra Streisand] was really too young for the role... But she was certainly in fine voice, making more of the songs by Jerry Herman than did Herman himself.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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4/5
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(1970)
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Sky Staff
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With themes and action relevant to the 20th century and beyond, this worthy sequel continues author Pierre Boulle's tale in suitably dark and thrilling fashion.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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4/5
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Bloodsport
(1988)
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Sky Staff
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Gripping kick-box bouts and an eye-watering training routine made this a crunching calling card from the Belgian bruiser.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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2/5
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Legend
(1985)
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Sky Staff
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The sets, makeup and photography in Ridley Scott's contribution to the fantasy cycle are awesome, but the dialogue and acting are more fitted to the pantomime stage.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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Harlem Nights
(1989)
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Sky Staff
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Murphy wrote and directed this period piece which doesn't hold back on the strong language and profanity... but to humorous effect.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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2/5
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Every Which Way But Loose
(1978)
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Sky Staff
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The story and the characters are really too silly even by the standards of this kind of romp, and the film's disparate elements hardly ever begin to gel.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(1992)
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Sky Staff
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Somewhere between Prom Night and Dracula, without any real sense of menace, comes this vampire comedy.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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The Lord of the Rings
(1978)
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Sky Staff
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[W]e should be grateful that Bakshi has tried so hard to be faithful to the original that its spirit and inspiration often shine through to stir the blood.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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2/5
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Orca
(1977)
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Sky Staff
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Those expecting real quality had better look elsewhere, but fans of enjoyably bad movies will find plenty to relish, not least lady-in-peril Bo Derek.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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The Wiz
(1978)
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Sky Staff
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The Wiz can't quite get it together. Nonetheless, this trip up the yellow-brick road has something to please almost everyone.
Posted Mar 26, 2019
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3/5
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Hook
(1991)
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Sky Staff
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Bob Hoskins hops aboard as Hook's hapless mate Smee while Julia Roberts sprinkles fairydust as the mischievous Tink.
Posted Mar 25, 2019
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3/5
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Young Guns
(1988)
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Sky Staff
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There's some tough action sequences and a personable cast - including cameos from Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields - in a movie that (almost) kick-started a fading genre.
Posted Mar 25, 2019
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2/5
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Tango & Cash
(1989)
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Sky Staff
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Despite imaginative sets and bursts of action -- the prison scenes are particularly vividly staged -- this is a fitfully boring film with perished elastic in its would-be whiplash dialogue.
Posted Mar 21, 2019
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3/5
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Cruel Intentions
(1999)
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Sky Staff
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It's great to see the stars relishing their unusual casting.
Posted Mar 20, 2019
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3/5
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The Amityville Horror
(1979)
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Sky Staff
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[A] goose-pimply haunted house yarn.
Posted Mar 20, 2019
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3/5
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Mannequin
(1987)
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Sky Staff
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Extremely well performed, scripted, edited and directed, this department store romp offers you a real bargain and doesn't waste a second in telling its tall story.
Posted Mar 19, 2019
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4/5
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Shanghai Express
(1932)
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Sky Staff
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It's one of Dietrich's and [von Sternberg's] finest, a kind of Grand Hotel on wheels.
Posted Mar 15, 2019
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3/5
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Twins
(1988)
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Sky Staff
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It doesn't take a genius to see how the caper might evolve with Arnie as the perfect specimen and Danny as the scheming lowlife, but everyone has fun turning the concept into a naughtier version of The Prince And The Pauper.
Posted Mar 12, 2019
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2/5
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Friday the 13th, Part 2
(1981)
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Sky Staff
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Gory with a hint of humour, this pretty much does what it says on the tin.
Posted Mar 11, 2019
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2/5
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A Chorus Line
(1985)
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Sky Staff
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Attenborough takes the show that set the stage alight and, in this curiously flat version, dampens its spirit.
Posted Mar 07, 2019
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1/5
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A Star Is Born
(1976)
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Sky Staff
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Too often director Frank Pierson appears to be allowing his players to act the scene as they think fit rather than under his guidance.
Posted Mar 06, 2019
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3/5
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Police Academy
(1984)
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Sky Staff
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A big hoot for adolescents of all ages.
Posted Mar 05, 2019
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3/5
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Three Amigos!
(1986)
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Sky Staff
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Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short kept the saddles of comedy blazing with this wonderfully daft western.
Posted Mar 02, 2019
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2/5
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Grease 2
(1982)
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Sky Staff
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The original was a hard act to follow but this energetic sequel floats on a raft of ditties from the likes of Tab Hunter and Connie Stevens. That said, the questionable 'Reproduction' has to be heard to be believed.
Posted Feb 28, 2019
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4/5
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Out of Africa
(1985)
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Sky Staff
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Engagingly played, swoonsomely shot, and a bit breathy... perfect stuff for a Sunday night.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
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Rain Man
(1988)
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Sky Staff
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[A] poignant and involving comedy drama.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
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