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#1: Looper

Looper is set in a futuristic world where time-travel is illegal, telekinesis is commonplace and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Bruce Willis. Nope, I still don’t see it. Even with well-rehearsed mannerisms, even with three hours’ worth of make-up, JGL bears only

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#2: SHAME

EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS Michael Fassbender is the only actor who can do full-frontal nudity… from behind. Michael. Fassbender. It’s hard to think back to before he was a Hollywood star. But as recently as 2008, he was a Kerry bartender

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#3: Amour

LOVE’S LABOURS LOST I was late getting out the the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield. But my friend reassured me that “nothing much happened” in Amour’s first five minutes. The same could be said about its next 120 minutes. That’s not

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#4: Argo

The 2012 CORZIES return after an over-long hiatus with: “ARGO: Fake Movie, True Story.” In one way I’m glad this review was delayed for months. Now I can tell my story. You know the one… January 10th 2013. The Oscar

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#5: The Master

“That’s a pussy. A lady’s pussy… That’s two pussies, touching – see, right there… That’s a cock going into a pussy… That’s a cock, only upside-down.” All right, that’s enough RedTube for one night… These are actually Freddie Quell’s (Joaquin

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#6: The Avengers

  I love how “The Avengers” blatantly rips off Power Rangers. Every hero has a set of casual clothes which is somehow colour co-ordinated with his costume. Bruce Banner (Hulk) has a purple shirt. Steve Rogers (Cap) wears a blue

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#7: Killer Joe

In a rare move, the MPAA awarded “Killer Joe” an NC-17 certificate, the American equivalent of 18. It cited the film’s “graphic disturbing content involving brutality, violence and sexuality”. That was all I needed to hear before I bought myself

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#8: The Raid

  The Raid is the second-best Welsh-directed Indonesian martial arts action movie that I’ve seen this year. All right. It’s the best. But honestly, how many non-Bollywood films ever come out of Asia? And the films that do are usually

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#9: Margaret

Most people fall into two camps when they think of Anna Paquin. Either they see her as Rogue from the “X-Men” trilogy, a streak of white through her black hair. Or they picture her as Sookie Stackhouse from HBO’s “True

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#10: The Muppets

Philosophers, theologists and scientists have tried for centuries to define the concept of “the soul”. That intangible object which separates humans from mere animals. It’s my humble opinion that the answer lies in our unique ability to appreciate, and love,

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