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Review – The Gatekeepers (15) [2013]
Star Rating: 4/5 Director: Dror Merah – Sharon Cast: Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor Yaacov Peri Carmi Gillon Ami Ayalon Avi Dichter Yuval Diskin Music Composer: Regis Baillet Jerome Chassagnard There is great… more →
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Review - The Gatekeepers (15) [2013]
wrote 3 weeks ago: Star Rating: 4/5 Director: Dror Merah – Sharon Cast: Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor Yaacov Peri Carmi Gillon … more →
Review - Zero Dark Thirty (15) [2013]
wrote 2 months ago: Star Rating: 3.5/5 Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Loveless, The Weight of Water, The Hurt Locker Ca … more →
Review - Lincoln (12a) [2013]
— 5 comments
wrote 3 months ago: Star Rating: 4/5 Director: Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan, War Horse, Indiana Jones I-V Cast … more →
Review - The Imposter (15) [2012]
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wrote 8 months ago: Star Rating: 4.5/5 Director: Bart Layton – Breakout, Banged Up Abroad Cast: Adam O’Brian Anna Ruben … more →
Titanic (2012)
wrote 1 year ago: Rated NR This miniseries retells the story of the sinking of the Titanic through personal experience … more →
Review - Titanic 3D (12a) [2012; originally released in 1997]
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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 →
Philosophy of a Knife (2008)
— 12 comments
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 →
Review - In Darkness (15) [2012]
— 3 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 4.5/5 In Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad VaShem, there is a section honourin … more →
REVIEW: Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
wrote 1 year ago: From the writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, made into a heart wrenching and immensely success … more →
Windtalkers (2002)
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Rated R Based on the true stories of the codetalkers of World War II. The codetalkers were Navajo In … more →
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
wrote 1 year ago: Rated NR John Wayne stars as a Union cavalry colonel during the Civil War, who was ordered behind Co … more →
Killer Elite (2011) Film Review
wrote 1 year ago: Killer Elite basically starts out as a typical Jason Statham film normally does, but with the added … more →
Review - The Iron Lady (12a) [2012]
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wrote 1 year ago: Star Rating: 3/5 Dementia is a cruel infliction that eats away at what an individual once was. (Lady … more →
Review - My Week With Marilyn (15) [2011]
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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 →
Review - The Devil's Double (18) [2011]
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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 →
Review - The Fighter (15) [2011]
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 →
The Underrated: Donnie Brasco
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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 →
Review - Sanctum 3D (15) [2011]
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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 →
Review - 127 Hours (15) [2011]
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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 →
