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2008 Viewings

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Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging B (AL)

Australia D+ (AL)

The Baader Meinhof Complex C (AL)

The Bank Job C+ (AL)

Body of Lies A- (AL)

Burn After Reading C- (AL)

Changeling B (AL)

Che: Part One D+ (AL)

Cloverfield C+ (AL) A+ (ME)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button D (AL)

The Dark Knight B- (AL) B+ (ME)

Death Race D+ (AL)

Defiance D (AL)

Donkey Punch F (AL)

Doubt B+(AL)

Eagle Eye D (AL)

Easy Virtue D (AL)

Elegy A (AL)

The Fall A- (AL)

The Forbidden Kingdom D- (AL)

Frost/Nixon A- (AL)

Frozen River B (AL)

Get Smart D (AL)

Ghost Town B+ (AL)

Gomorrah B (AL)

Hancock A- (AL) B+ (ME)

Happy-Go-Lucky B+(AL)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army A- (AL)

In Bruges D- (AL)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull B- (AL)

I've Loved You So Long A (AL)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (3D) F (AL)

Lakeview Terrace B- (AL)

Let the Right One In B- (AL)

Mamma Mia! D (AL)

Man on Wire B+(AL)

Married Life B- (AL)

Milk B (AL)

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist C- (AL)

The Orphanage B- (ME)

Pineapple Express D- (AL)

Pride and Glory D (AL)

OSS117: Cairo - Nest of Spies D+ (AL)

Quantum of Solace C+ (AL)

Quarantine B- (AL)

Rambo D+ (AL)

The Reader D+ (AL)

[Rec] A (AL) A+ (ME)

Redbelt C (AL)

Revolutionary Road A (AL)

Role Models B (AL)

Sex and the City B+ (AL)

Shine a Light A (AL)

Slumdog Millionaire B+ (AL)

Taken C+ (AL)

Teeth B+ (AL)

Tropic Thunder B (AL)

Twilight B+ (AL)

Valkyrie C- (AL)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona A+ (AL)

The Visitor A- (AL)

The Wackness B- (AL)

Wall*E B+ (AL)

Wanted C+ (AL)

Wendy and Lucy C+ (AL)

What Happened in Vegas B- (ME)

The Wrestler A (AL)

 

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In Bruges

UK, 2008

Director:

Martin McDonagh

Starring:

Colin Farrell
Brendan Gleeson
Ralph Fiennes
 

Matt: -

Adam: D-

   

 

After 30 minutes of "humour" that had all the wit and creativity of schoolyard name-calling I left. Indeed schoolyard name-calling might actually be wittier than calling fat people elephants then getting them to chase you, calling others "spastics" or "retarded", or saying that someone would tip the balance like a "big fat retarded black woman on a see-saw." Oscar Wilde-esque, I think you'll agree.

Anyway I couldn't take any more, I couldn't believe this had scored 79% on rottentomatoes and I couldn't believe that anyone in the cinema was actually laughing and so I up and left. The car park was free to exit after 8pm. I left at 7.15, so I actually paid £2 to avoid watching any more. Money well spent I thought.

AL