Cinema reviews of the latest film releases from the Chorley Citizen

Review: Dinner For Schmucks (12A)

4:49pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Sadly, Dinner For Schmucks isn’t a bountiful feast of rip-roaring laughs. The plot relies on a series of clumsy set pieces to drive it towards its inevitable reversal of fortunes.

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Review: Jonah Hex (15)

4:46pm Friday 3rd September 2010

ONE man embarks on a quest for vengeance in a bloodthirsty adventure based on a popular graphic novel.

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Review: The Last Exorcism (15)

4:37pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Filmed in the faux documentary style, popularised by The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, The Last Exorcism follows a fourth generation evangelical preacher as he attempts to expose exorcism as pure bunkum.

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Review: The Switch (12A)

4:35pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

Originally entitled The Baster, which succinctly sums up the intentions of this quirky romantic comedy, Josh Gordon and Will Speck’s film is a modern-day story of parenthood with two significant stumbling blocks: there is no sexual chemistry between the lead actors and Allan Loeb forgot to impregnate his script with big laughs.

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Review: Grown Ups (12A)

3:32pm Friday 27th August 2010

Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf penned this comedy, directed by Dennis Dugan, about a group of 40-something male friends who hanker for a return to the carefree days of their youth.

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Review: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (PG)

3:34pm Friday 27th August 2010

Based on the best-selling illustrated novel by Jeff Kinney, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is a coming of age comedy about those painful pre-teenage years when everyone wants to fit in.

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Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)

2:48pm Friday 27th August 2010

The late Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy, which began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, continues with this gritty descent into the sickening world of sex trafficking.

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Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (12A)

11:19am Thursday 26th August 2010

One man’s quest for love could result in a little more than a broken heart in Edgar Wright’s video game-styled comedy based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley.

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Review: Marmaduke (U)

4:00pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

Based on the newspaper comic strip by Brand Anderson and Phil Leeming, Marmaduke is a mildly entertaining family comedy about the rites of passage of a dog who believes you have to wag your tail to someone else's beat to fit in.

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Review: Salt (12A)

3:54pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

Angelina Jolie's first film for two years takes itself far too seriously.

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Review: The Expendables (15)

5:38pm Friday 20th August 2010

Brawn triumphs over brains in Sylvester Stallone’s explosive adventure that shoe-horns some of the biggest names of the movie action genre into one preposterous, all-guns-blazing film.

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Review: The Last Airbender (PG)

2:39pm Friday 13th August 2010

M Night Shyamalan is an odd choice to direct a special effects-laden adventure based on the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG)

1:26pm Thursday 12th August 2010

Halfway through Jon Turteltaub’s fast-paced yarn, the eponymous hero calls upon what little magical knowledge he possesses to command an army of mops to clean his secret hideaway.

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Review: Step Up 3D (12A)

5:33pm Thursday 5th August 2010

ANYTHING StreetDance 3D can do, Step Up 3D can apparently do better.

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Review: Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (U)

5:34pm Thursday 5th August 2010

AFTER years in hiding, Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler) breaks cover to steal valuable technology which she needs to construct a device that will get rid of the pesky dogs once and for all.

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Review: Knight And Day (12A)

1:20pm Thursday 5th August 2010

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have starred in some of the most financially successful and critically acclaimed films of the past 25 years, collecting numerous awards for their efforts.

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Review: Gainsbourg (15)

3:33pm Friday 30th July 2010

Joann Sfar’s imaginative biopic charts the tumultuous life of singer Serge Gainsbourg.

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Review: The Karate Kid (PG)

3:24pm Friday 30th July 2010

Director Harald Zwart is a brave man, attempting a remake of one of the most fondly cherished films of the 1980s.

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Review: The A-Team (12A)

1:54pm Thursday 29th July 2010

It has been more than 25 years since George Peppard chewed on a cigar and uttered the immortal line, “I love it when a plan comes together”.

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Review: Toy Story 3 (U)

12:40pm Monday 26th July 2010

Men sobbing, kids wailing - you would think the World Cup was still going on.

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Review: Splice (15)

4:50pm Friday 23rd July 2010

DESPITE years of scientific advancement and technological breakthroughs, many secrets of the human body continue to elude us.

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Review: The Rebound (15)

3:46pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

The Rebound has been sitting on a shelf for more than a year and, in truth, that’s where it should have stayed.

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Review: Shrek Forever After (U)

3:55pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

This final foray into the world of loveable ogre Shrek references Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life in an animated 3D fairy-tale world.

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Review: Inception (12a)

3:50pm Tuesday 20th July 2010

On a visit to Warner Bros studio in LA last year, I noticed a workshop with various gilded Oriental panels.

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Review: Mega Piranha (15)

3:39pm Friday 16th July 2010

THE producers responsible for the ultra-low budget monster movie Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus contrive another titanic battle between mankind and Mother Nature.

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Review: Inception (12A)

3:09pm Friday 16th July 2010

EVERY night, the dream world provides a temporary and blissful escape from reality.

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Review: Toy Story 3 (U)

4:11pm Thursday 15th July 2010

The toys are back in town as the computer animation wizards at Pixar bid a fond farewell to Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their other beloved creations.

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Review: London River (12A)

4:58pm Friday 9th July 2010

DIRECTOR Rachid Bouchareb chronicles the aftermath of the 2005 bombings in London through the eyes of two strangers looking for their missing children.

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Review: Predators (15)

4:41pm Friday 9th July 2010

BASED loosely on a 1994 script by Robert Rodriguez, penned before he shot to fame with Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, Predators reinvents the dreadlocked alien warriors for a new generation.

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Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (12A)

4:37pm Friday 9th July 2010

THE tug of war for the affections of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reaches a crucial juncture in the latest film based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling teen romances.

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