Movie Review: Hugo (3D) (2011)

To 3D or not 3D, that is the question. If you know me or have read some of my reviews, you’ll know I hate 3D films with a passion usually reserved for botched haircuts and cakes with hairs on them. But I heard there were rumours on the internets that Hugo is the first ever film
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Movie Review: Ninja Assassin (2009)

Ninja Assassin is a movie likely to polarise viewers. On the one hand, you have the anime generation numb to the gory violence cheering on every move of the spectacular ninja Raizo (played by Korean actor/popstar Rain). On the other, there will be those outraged by the excessive blood and carnage, wondering how a movie
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2014 Movie Review Round-up confirms I like movies

Maybe the rumors that I’m too kind to most movies are true. It usually takes me a while to complete my best and worst of lists for movies for the year because I like to get through as many as I can — and all the ones I want to see — before setting the lists
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My Greatest NBA Fantasy Team of All Time

I haven’t done any basketball-related posts on this blog for a while, and this is a topic I have wanted to tackle for some time. After recently reading Jack McCallum’s fabulous Dream Team (review here), a chronicle of the greatest group of talent ever assembled in team sport, I started thinking about which players I
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