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Review - The Gatekeepers (15) [2013]

pgtipsonfilms wrote 3 weeks ago: Star Rating: 4/5 Director: Dror Merah – Sharon Cast: Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor Yaacov Peri Carmi Gillon … more →

Tags: Documentary, film, Review, the gatekeepers, Arab, Israeli, Palestinian, Security, Israeli-Palestinian crisis

Review - Zero Dark Thirty (15) [2013]

pgtipsonfilms wrote 2 months ago: Star Rating: 3.5/5 Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Loveless, The Weight of Water, The Hurt Locker Ca … more →

Tags: Drama, Political, Thriller, 9/11, al-Qaeda, CIA, director of the hurt locker, film, Jason Clarke

Review - Lincoln (12a) [2013]5 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 3 months ago: Star Rating: 4/5 Director: Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan, War Horse, Indiana Jones I-V Cast … more →

Tags: Political, abolition of slavery, American Civil War, Captain America, Confederacy, Daniel Day-Lewis, Federalism, film, Harriet Stowe

Review - The Imposter (15) [2012]1 comment

pgtipsonfilms wrote 8 months ago: Star Rating: 4.5/5 Director: Bart Layton – Breakout, Banged Up Abroad Cast: Adam O’Brian Anna Ruben … more →

Tags: Documentary, Indie, Angelina Jolie, Changeling, FBI, film, Frederic Bourdin, madeleine mccan, missing child

Titanic (2012)

laurarachel4 wrote 1 year ago: Rated NR This miniseries retells the story of the sinking of the Titanic through personal experience … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Movies, films, Reviews, Movie, Film Reviews, Miniseries, Titanic, Characters

Review - Titanic 3D (12a) [2012; originally released in 1997]5 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 4/5 A century has passed since the White Star Line’s ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sank on her m … more →

Tags: Thriller, Movie, film, Oscar Winner, Review, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic, Sanctum

Philosophy of a Knife (2008)12 comments

Aloha Mister Hand wrote 1 year ago: This movie is, well, like somewhat of a bad acid trip. Though I don’t know personally, I can o … more →

Tags: horror movies, Reviews, General Gore, Crime, Drama, Psychological, 2008, Torture, Mockumentary

Review - In Darkness (15) [2012]3 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 4.5/5 In Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad VaShem, there is a section honourin … more →

Tags: Drama, film, polish, Review, In Darkness, Sewers, Jews, Nazis, Soviets

REVIEW: Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne

EZE wrote 1 year ago: From the writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, made into a heart wrenching and immensely success … more →

Tags: Fiction, Bounty, fiction (2), History, Mutiny, Navy

Windtalkers (2002)2 comments

laurarachel4 wrote 1 year ago: Rated R Based on the true stories of the codetalkers of World War II. The codetalkers were Navajo In … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Movies, films, Reviews, Movie, Film Reviews, World War II, wwii, film

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

laurarachel4 wrote 1 year ago: Rated NR John Wayne stars as a Union cavalry colonel during the Civil War, who was ordered behind Co … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Movies, films, Reviews, Movie, Film Reviews, worth, Civil War, Entertaining

Killer Elite (2011) Film Review

Andy Carrington wrote 1 year ago: Killer Elite basically starts out as a typical Jason Statham film normally does, but with the added … more →

Tags: andycarrington.co.uk, film, critique essay article analysis, Fight Scenes, Robert De Niro, jason statham, True Story, killer elite film movie review, Action Vehicle

Review - The Iron Lady (12a) [2012]1 comment

pgtipsonfilms wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 3/5 Dementia is a cruel infliction that eats away at what an individual once was. (Lady … more →

Tags: Drama, Political, film, Golden Globe nominated, Oscar Nomination, Review, Reviews, the devil wears prada, the Iron Lady

Review - My Week With Marilyn (15) [2011]3 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 2.5/5 Upon seeing the title My Week With Marilyn, one would think it was about a week t … more →

Tags: Book-Based, black death, Blonde, Captain America, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh

Review - The Devil's Double (18) [2011]5 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 3/5 It is common for dictators and those close to them to have doubles (look-alikes), s … more →

Tags: Book-Based, film, Film Reviews, Movie Reviews, Dominic Cooper, Cooper, uday, hussein, latif

Review - The Fighter (15) [2011]

pgtipsonfilms wrote 2 years ago: Star Rating: 4.5/5 ‘Why do we fall down, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.’ Thomas Wayne … more →

Tags: Drama, Movie, film, Movie Reviews, Latest Film Reviews, Oscar Winner, Christian Bale, wahlberg, Adams

The Underrated: Donnie Brasco30 comments

Jarv wrote 2 years ago: Back when I started this series, a little more than a year ago, Donnie Brasco was one of the titles … more →

Tags: Jarv's musings, The Underrated, film, Review, Mafia, Johnny Depp, Underrated, Al Pacino, Mike Newell

Review - Sanctum 3D (15) [2011]2 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 2 years ago: Star Rating: 3.5/5 Sanctum had the potential to be a disaster to the point when the cast, director a … more →

Tags: Thriller, film, Review, 3D, Reviews, based on real events, Cave Divers, iaon gruffudd, Titanic

Review - 127 Hours (15) [2011]3 comments

pgtipsonfilms wrote 2 years ago: Star Rating: 4/5 ‘Caught between a rock and a hard place’ – we’ve all heard the metaphor at some poi … more →

Tags: Horror, 127 Hours, Alone, Buried, caught between a rock and a hard place, Danny Boyle, film, James Franco, mountain climbing


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