Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Company Men (2010) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

The Company Men (2010) Directed by John Wells. With Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Craig T. Nelson, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Rosemarie DeWitt. Writer and director John Wells’ ‘The Company Men’ treads a very fine line between … Continue reading

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Indie Game: The Movie (2012) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

Indie Game: The Movie (2012) Directed by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot . With Jonathan Blow, Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen. Turning the ripe old age of thirty-five years myself this year (2012) , I feel as though video games and … Continue reading

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Deep Impact (1998) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

Deep Impact (1998) Directed by Mimi Leder • Written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin. With Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, James Cromwell and Morgan Freeman. 1998 was the year of the killer comet face-off. In one corner, … Continue reading

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John Carter (2012) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

John Carter (2012) Directed by Andrew Stanton. With Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Dominic West and Thomas Haden Church. I could write a very short and concise review for John Carter (of Mars) which would … Continue reading

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Friends with Kids (2011) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

Friends with Kids (2011) Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt. With Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm and Megan Fox. Is it just me, or is there a ‘Friends With’ franchise developing under our noses here? … Continue reading

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Jerry Maguire (1996) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

Jerry Maguire (1996) Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston and Bonnie Hunt. The landscape of the romantic comedy is vast and littered with frothy star-vehicles that aim to hook us with their light-hearted, … Continue reading

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The Impossible (2012) Film Review by Gareth Rhodes

The Impossible (2012) Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. With Ewan Mcgregor, Naomi Watts and Tom Holland. Having endured my fair share of Roland Emmerich visions of global destruction, The Impossible acts as a reminder of how much can be achieved … Continue reading

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