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Coming from the brain of Oscar winning Juno writer Diablo Cody, there was always going to be a certain air of anticipation for this horror/comedy.... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Jennifer's_Body/6900.htm If the old man from Up lived on a council estate and was a trained killer, he might look something like Harry Brown.
A revenge tale with a social conscience, Harry Brown is a grubby, violent but often ponderous film, boasting one of the best... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Harry_Brown/6899.htm Hilarious and witty with brilliant action, this is one of the most fun flicks of the year.
Playing like cult classic Shaun of the Dead, only directed by Zack Snyder, Zombieland achieves that rare feat of being a genre hybrid that manages to... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Zombieland/6898.htm Another Halloween, another Saw sequel. This one is just as awful as you'd expect.
Much like its villain, Jigsaw, Saw is the franchise that just won't die. Made with a relatively paltry budget, each effort in the series has returned a profit... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Saw_6/6887.htm Glimpses of the genius that is Michael Jackson are prominent through-out, but fans shouldn’t expect any more than glorified fine-tuning of the concerts that never happened.
Assembled from rehearsal footage for his proposed fifty night... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/This_Is_It/6886.htm Cut To The Chase:
Pixar have done it again - Up can side proudly alongside other modern animation classics like Toy Story, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc. and Wall E.
Ever since he was a young boy marvelling at the feats of his... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Up/6876.htm There has been more than a few adaptations of Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray and this is Oliver Parker's third attempt at a Wilde story after An Ideal Husband and The Importance Of Being Ernest. This outing is a solid if functional entry... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Dorian_Gray/6872.htm If you're going to make a film about a recent college graduate blossoming late and coming into his own during an eventful summer, working a crappy job in a grubby themepark, then you could do a lot worse than enlisting the director of Superbad. Greg... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Adventureland/6871.htm This is about half as funny as it could've been, which still means laughs, just not enough for those who know how good these guys can be.
Having starred in the brilliant indie classic Swingers together, about a bunch of chaps on the pull, it... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Couples_Retreat/6859.htm A decent performance from Eckhart and an initially interesting set-up can't save this from the disposable romantic movie pile.
It was a brave move on writer/director Camp's part to try and meld a romantic premise around that of a... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Love_Happens/6857.htm Based on the much loved novel of the same name, German director Robert Schwentke follows up the mundane Flightpan which an adaptation that engages occasionally, but is far too disjointed to really involve the viewer. The novel wasn't a bestseller... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife/6856.htm This may be a remake, but it feels like a breath of fresh air and is much better than the current trend of dance movies about folk from the "wrong side of the tracks" who triumph over adversity, bag the upper class guy/girl and then dance... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Fame/6828.htm There does seem to be a problem with a lot of mainstream romantic comedies these days, in that they are almost perennially slight, and lacking in the kind of obtuse gags that will pull in the male masses. The Ugly Truth is a film that is pretty much... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/The_Ugly_Truth/6827.htm
High Concept comedies can be hit-and-miss affairs. For every Superbad (horny teens go on a quest to buy alcohol for a house party and chaos ensues) there's a Yes Man (a negative guy turns positive and chaos ensues); for every The Hangover (a... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/The_Invention_of_Lying/6830.htm How do you even begin to review a film that is essentially a game without the controller? Sure, the directors, who have branded themselves Neveldine/Taylor, shove in a plot that they'd like to believe in some way reflects the direction our society... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Gamer/6821.htm Borrowing liberally from other science fiction movies with a similar hook, Pandourm is rarely original, but sometimes exudes enough atmosphere to ignore some of the productions more prominent shortcomings. The script is purely functional, only ever... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Pandorum/6820.htm Ever since he was a small boy, Flint Lockwood (Hader) has wanted to be an inventor, working away in his purposely-built den in the back garden. But his inventions always turn out to be a disaster; the inhabitants of his small town on an island in... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Cloudy_With_a_Chance_of_Meatballs/6822.htm There's something to be said for a good old fashioned slasher flick for bringing the brainless entertainment. Almost always utterly ridiculous, with a conclusion that Helen Keller could see coming, there is still a certain watchabilty with even the... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Sorority_Row/6808.htm A great movie is something special, isn’t it? A great movie can lift falling spirits, make your whole weekend and convince you that life isn’t all that bad. It can make you wish that you were friends with the characters. A great movie gives you the... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/500_Days_Of_Summer/6807.htm He's a trooper that Bruce Willis; now well into the mid-century, he's still knocking out the action roles, even if he does need a rub down after every car chase. It's a good thing, so, that there are very few action sequences in Surrogates; a film... http://entertainment.ie/DVD_review/Surrogates/6806.htm