Posts By James Hyde
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The Dark Knight Rises
Let’s get it out of the way. The Dark Knight Rises is not as good as The Dark Knight. But then that...
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Bachelorette
Probably the worst of the post-The Hangover, let’s get f*cked up and party hard, look-how-mental-this-is band of comedies (though in this case,...
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22 Jump Street
Comedy sequels, as anyone who has sat through Meet the Fockers will testify, are a tricky thing. Make them too different to...
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Frost/Nixon
Watergate. It’s been covered in cinema before, most notably in 1995’s Nixon. But Frost/Nixon takes a new angle by focussing on the...
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The Campaign
It’s Ron Burgundy vs Alan from The Hangover. Welcome to American politics, where anything goes. And, in The Campaign, anything does, unfortunately,...
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X-Men: First Class
After a whole two years without an X-Men film it was probably time for another instalment, and in truth, prequel X-Men: First...
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2011’s The Amazing Spider-Man may not have been as the title suggested, but it was certainly very good-a superhero movie with a...
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Snow White and the Huntsman
The publicity screamed ‘this is Snow White as you’ve never seen it before”. Which would have been exciting had Mirror Mirror not...
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The Place Beyond Drive
After watching the first 45 minutes or so of The Place Beyond The Pines, you could be forgiven for believing you were...
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Prometheus
It’s been over 30 years since that Alien burst out of John Hurt’s chest. Over three decades. In that time, we’ve seen...