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1. Film review: A Dangerous Mind
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 08 February 2012The ubiquitous Michael Fassbender stars in David Cronenberg’s latest film about the inception of psychoanalysis – but for once, it’s not the Shame actor who stands out.
2. Film review: The Descendants
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 01 February 2012The Descendants has undeniable high points but there is much about the writing and direction that make it an awkward and disengaging watch.
3. Film review: War Horse
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 18 January 2012Beautifully-shot, War Horse feels both old fashioned as well as contemporary and its epic scale works brilliantly in its favour.
4. Film review: Haywire
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 25 January 2012The string of visually striking fight sequences can’t save a film set against a dull seen-it-before espionage plot that is thinly developed.
5. Film review: The Iron lady
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 11 January 2012Less an involving biopic, more an underdeveloped sketch of an elderly woman struggling towards the end of her life, The Iron Lady flicks between events in her past and Margaret Thatcher in the present day.
6. Film review: The Artist
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 04 January 2012Subtitled movies aren’t everyone’s cup of wet brown stuff, and if they’re black and white and silent too – and not even a well-loved classic – they’re even less likely to hit the spot.
7. Film review: Arthur Christmas
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 16 November 2011This strategically-released festive animated feature is the second foray into the world of CGI for Bristol-based stopmotion studio Aardman.
8. Film Review: Justice
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 23 November 2011With the weekend’s release of the latest film in the Twilight saga always set to swallow up the biggest slice of the box office takings, other new releases have been thin on the ground.
9. Film review: 50/50
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 30 November 201150/50 is a sensitively-handled film about a young man’s struggle with cancer.
10. Film review: Puss in Boots
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 07 December 2011As one of the characters, alongside Donkey, that steals the show in the Shrek films, it’s a no-brainer that doe-eyed feline charmer Puss in Boots would wind up with his very own spin-off movie.
