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Video Vault: The ‘Burbs

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Today’s Video Vault has Hayley Stovold showing off the neighbourhood. Although it was first released in 1989, The ‘Burbs is still as exciting and watchable as ever. Over two decades later, the film still confronts current issues, albeit slightly dramatised. A black comedy/thriller, The ‘Burbs is set in a small suburban town, Hinkley Hills, and [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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And so it had come to this. Wearily yet with the obligatory expectation and excitement inherent in any new Star Wars film we walked into the cinema for the final chapter of the  saga to find out if the years of hope, which previously had given way to disappointment, would be worth it. I sat [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

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As I found myself sitting down to watch Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones for the first time in years, a familiar feeling washed over me. I grew up with Star Wars you see; Return of the Jedi was one of the very first films I saw at the cinema and it still [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

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So yeah, George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy was one of the biggest pop cultural icons of all time. It was well-known early on that A New Hope, Empire and Jedi were part of a much longer story, so there were constant rumours that more movies would make their way to the big screen. Eventually came the [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Truth be told, there are easier films to revisit than Empire. Not because it isn’t enjoyable to do so (the number of genuinely superior sci-fi films can probably just about be counted on the fingers of one hand), but because pretty much everything that can be said about it has been already. Thus, instead of [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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A long time ago, in a living room far, far away (well, Elgin), I remember sitting down to watch Star Wars for the very first time. Now, twenty-odd years, a full franchise and hundreds of pounds worth of merchandise later, I am sitting down to watch it again in anticipation of the saga’s encroaching release [...]




Studio Ghibli Video Vault – Howl’s Moving Castle

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While I now, of course, appreciate the full genius of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli – I’m only human – it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Having caught Spirited Away as a teenager, complete with pig parents and a rather spiritless American voice-over, I was clearly ill-equipped to take it in – distracted as [...]




Studio Ghibli Video Vault: Grave of the Fireflies

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To celebrate the release of Studio Ghibli’s latest film, Arrietty, in UK cinemas we’re taking a look back at some of the studio’s classic with a Video Vault series. Patrick Gamble takes a look back at the 1988 war film written and directed by Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies. Check back over the next [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

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Bloody Hell, as Ron Weasley might have said. Ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars and look where it’s taken us: full circle. We already have a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II review, and a ruddy good one at that, but having spent [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will draw to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will draw to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will draw to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will draw to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will open at the close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise ever will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will draw to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, [...]




Hogwarts Revisited – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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On the fifteenth of July, 2011, the highest grossing film franchise of all time will finally come to an end. Spanning ten years, eight movies, four directors and a worldwide box-office gross of over six billion dollars – the Harry Potter film franchise will open at the close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: [...]




Video Vault: 25 Years of Pixar Retrospective – “Finding Nemo”

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My overriding memory of Finding Nemo is one of uncontrollable laughter. As Dory endeavours to communicate with a resident whale, I put my need for oxygen on hold and proceeded to crack up, guffaw and generally LOL hysterically. While I adore all of Pixar’s movies (yes, even Cars), and might hold Wall-E as the height [...]




Video Vault – Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

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In 1981 Raiders of The Lost Ark was released and like many young boys Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos and Jayson Lamb saw the film and were enraptured by it. Like many kids Chris wanted to be Indiana Jones, to have his own adventure, to fight nazis, hunt for treasure and get the girl. He therefore decided [...]




Video Vault – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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We’ve raided the lost ark, escaped from a temple of doom and even embarked on what now transpires to be the penultimate crusade. Now we consider the final (for the time being at least) entry in the Indy canon, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. ***** 1957. After he helps a group [...]




Video Vault – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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We’ve traveled with Indy through Peru, Cairo, Nepal, Shanghai and India. After finding the Ark and surviving the Temple of Doom, it was time for his Last Crusade (until the next one). ***** It is 1938 and Indiana Jones finally retrieves the Cross of Francisco De Coronado, which he had first come across in a [...]