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Film Review: Tron Legacy – Digital Botox And Surprising Depth

by hecklerspray staff

To be honest, hecklerspray gave up on computer games after a particularly tricky level on Sonic 2 saw a great hole being kicked in mum’s TV cabinet. So it was with some trepidation that ‘spray prepared to re-enter the digital space for Tron: Legacy. It’s already obvious that this was a going to be visual [...]

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Film Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part One

by hecklerspray staff

Hardened critics love having a pop at Harry Potter. They prance around, nose in the air, clutching their copy of whatever obscure flawed masterpiece is in vogue at the time, claiming the Potter films to be quite rubbish – a two-star at best. Well, Potter fans don’t give a stuff about them. And so they [...]

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Movie Review: Monsters

by David Schwartz

It takes a special skill to turn a movie about 150 foot killer squids from space walking the Earth so bum-numbingly dull. But rookie director Gareth Edwards somehow manages it. It’s hard to believe it’s possible, but Monsters is quite simply a monstrous bore. Why? Because this is not a monster movie at all – [...]

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Film Review: Winter’s Bone

by Si Sharp

Early on in Winter’s Bone, the heroine Ree is asked by one of her two younger siblings for whom she is responsible whether she is going to beg their neighbour for some meat. She replies you should “never ask for what ought to be offered”, but where meat is offered easily, information is harder to [...]

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MacGruber: Blu-ray Review

by David Scarborough

Saturday Night Live has been responsible for a barrage of chuckleheads over the years. But for every success there’s been a failure as miserable as a thousand Night at the Roxbury’s. Will Ferrell, Bill Murray, Mike Myers and Tina Fey all went on to bigger and better things, while Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz and Chris [...]

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Review: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (But The Audience Can If They Want)

by hecklerspray staff

Once upon a time there was a cuddly old man called Lou (Frank Zangella) who looked like Santa and just happened to run a big bank on Wall Street. He was still cuddly and lovable though. He had a protégé called Jake (Shia LaBeouf) whose dad died when he was little, meaning that he was [...]

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The Killer Inside Me – DVD Review

by James Morton

The Killer Inside Me, the latest genre excursion from filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, opens with a huge red herring. A jaunty, stylish credits sequence ushers the film in to the tune of Little Willie John’s version of ‘Fever’. ‘Fever”s a bit of an aural signpost. Putting it over the opening credits of a film is like [...]

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After.Life – DVD Review

by David Scarborough

Remember The Sixth Sense? That guessing game of creepy corpses, perceptive little children who don’t see the Sun enough and a plot twist that kept viewers guessing ‘til the closing credits. Now just imagine that but with Christina Ricci’s nipples. That was fun, wasn’t it? That’s the kind of Hollywood mindset that gets twisted tales [...]

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Hot Tub Time Machine – Blu-ray Review

by David Scarborough

At its essence, Back to the Future had a real Oedipus complex going on. While Marty McFly tries to shake off his mother’s advances, she luridly forces her son to breaking point before sticking her tongue down his throat. Only in the ’80s, eh? Well, actually that’s exactly the same sort of lows that the [...]

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Cemetery Junction – Blu-ray Review

by David Scarborough

Ricky Gervais seems to have the ability to rub people up the wrong way. Maybe it’s his egotistical rants or perhaps because The Invention of Lying was complete turd. Either way some people just cant stand the sharp-toothed tubster. Whatever it is it seems to be mostly unfounded. As both The Office and Extras proved [...]

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