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The Raid 2 review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 22, 2014  |  0 comments

How do you follow up the most talked-about action flick of the past decade? For Welsh writer-director Gareth Evans the answer was simple – you dust off an old script you'd written several years ago about an undercover cop and rework it as a continuation in the adventures of rookie officer Rama (Iko Uwais).

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Jacques Tati: Essential review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 21, 2014  |  0 comments

Between 1949 and 1974 Jacques Tati wrote, directed and starred in six feature films of such astonishing wit, invention and intelligence that he is often hailed as the most important comedy filmmaker of the sound era. The reasons for this are made abundantly clear by this set, which runs the gamut from Tati's celebrated Hulot tetralogy (Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle, PlayTime and Trafic) to his slapstick debut Jour de fête and the madcap circus of Parade.

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Lone Survivor review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 20, 2014  |  0 comments

Based on real events involving an ill-fated Navy Seal mission to kill a Taliban commander in Afghanistan, Peter Berg's latest film presumably set out to tell a powerful and moving story about sacrifice and loyalty to your fellow soldiers. Unfortunately, between its mix of heavy-handed, flag-waving jingoism and action movie dynamics, it ends up feeling like nothing more than another testosterone-fuelled Hollywood actioner.

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Wolfcop review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 20, 2014  |  0 comments

As many filmmakers have discovered, horror comedies are extremely tricky things to get right. That this low-budget flick about an alcoholic cop who actually gets better at his job after becoming a werewolf gets more right than wrong is testament to both the people involved in making it and the goodwill engendered by its ridiculously fun set-up. This Blu-ray sports vibrantly coloured and pristinely rendered 1.78:1 Full HD visuals alongside a playful DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack. Engaging extras include promo videos and a 46-minute Making of… charting the film's unusual route to the bigscreen.

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Need for Speed 3D review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 19, 2014  |  0 comments

When his best friend is killed during an illegal street race, brooding mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) has only one thing on his mind: revenge. So Marshall borrows a retooled Ford Shelby Mustang and sets off across America to get an invite to the exclusive winner-takes-all De Leon race, where he can finally get one over the man responsible, smarmy rival racer Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper).

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If.... (Masters of Cinema) review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 18, 2014  |  0 comments

The first in Lindsay Anderson's trio of state-of-the-nation satires starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis (the others being 1973's O Lucky Man! and 1982's Britannia Hospital), If…. follows the exploits of three nonconformist pupils at the College House public school, whose disaffection eventually boils over into anarchy and violence.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 17, 2014  |  0 comments

This belated sequel to Will Ferrell's 2004 comedy smash Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy moves the action from the mid-'70s to the early '80s as Ron (Will Ferrell) is hired to be one of the anchors on the world's first 24-hour news station. Stuck in the graveyard shift, Ron's team decides to focus on trivial but attention-grabbing newscasts and celebrity gossip, which makes them a ratings smash and changes the landscape of news reporting.

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Home Cinema Choice 240 on sale now!
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 16, 2014  |  0 comments

Issue #240 of Home Cinema Choice is now on sale – and as usual it's packed with AV goodness.

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47 Ronin 3D review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 16, 2014  |  0 comments

The 300-year-old tale of the 47 Ronin who sought to avenge the death of their master is one of the most popular historical stories in Japanese culture, retold over and over again in countless plays, TV dramas and movies. So naturally, it was about time that Hollywood got in on the act…

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Her review
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 15, 2014  |  0 comments

Following 2009's misfire Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's fourth film as director recalls his earlier work with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (1999's Being John Malkovich and 2002's Adaptation) in its sophistication and smarts. Only here Jonze adds an extra layer of old-fashioned romance and sentiment that helps balance the more intellectual side of the movie.

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