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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Nestled in dense pre-historic forest stands an imposing wooden fortress; it glows splendidly with flaming torches, wooden turrets…

By Alexandra Sims
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Scar Tissue

Scott Michell’s Scar Tissue is 50 percent teen rom-com, 50 percent thriller and 100 percent awful. Bad acting,…

By Joanna Byrne
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Boyhood

Richard Linekar brings to the screen a heart-warming passage of life story, bearing the trials, tribulations and growing…

By Theodora Munroe
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Transformers 4: Age of Extinction

Despite the success of the Transformers saga, Michael Bay announced he wouldn't direct any sequel to the trilogy…

By Filippo L'Astorina
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The Anomaly

Noel Clarke’s low budget sci-fi thriller uses an interesting narrative device but suffers from plot contrivances, stock characters…

By Matthew Lee
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Cycling with Molière

Art imitates life in this gentle comedy about two actors rehearsing for a play. The struggling friends, down-on-his-luck…

By Laura Maxwell
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Tammy

Tammy (Melissa McCarthy), the namesake of this rather gratuitously plotted film, is about as irritating and two-dimensional a…

By Francesca Laidlaw
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Begin Again

Every now and then a film comes along that is full of such sincerity that it makes you…

By Piri Eddy
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Goddess

There are no prizes for guessing what will be the main draw to this glossy Mark Lamprell musical as…

By Keir Smith
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Here and Now

The first feature film from award-winning director Lisle Turner, Here and Now stars Lauren Johns (About Time) and…

By Melanie Weaver