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Looking for an insight into the story of Dartmoor Zoo and Benjamin Mee? That’s not what you get with Cameron Crowe’s big screen adaptation of the story. We Bought a Zoo is a gooey, schmaltzy affair that fails to get to grips with the events that inspired it, but it’s harmless and watchable for all that 
Reviewing movies is all well and good but what happens when you come up against the weight of popular consensus? Do you compromise your own views or do you venture into the fray with an apparently contrary opinion? As a film reviewer myself, I contrast my views on John Cusack’s The Raven and Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive 
We’ve seen all this before and done better, says Sean Wilson of blockbusting movie John Carter 
Sean Wilson attended fight rehearsals for the film They’re Coming, and caught up with both John and leading man Tom Menary (of Plymouth-based Wingless Films). 
Fed up of silly, gore-laden horror movies? Then savour the old-fashioned Gothic atmosphere of The Woman in Black – made under the newly revived Hammer Films label, and starring Daniel Radcliffe in his first leading role following the end of Harry Potter 
A real horror story that plays to the heart of current fears regarding indoctrination and brainwashing, Martha Marcy May Marlene is compelling viewing, and features a haunting performance from Elizabeth Olsen 
Steve McQueen follows up on his astonishing debut film Hunger with the equally powerful Hunger – an uncompromising portrayal of sex addiction that benefits from magnificent performances from Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan 
Steven Spielberg is one of the masters of widescreen composition, able to encapsulate the themes and concerns of his movies in iconic images. Here are some iconic shots from some of his less heralded works. 
The Artist: a heartwarming crowdpleaser that is in love with films itself A black and white silent film about silent films that manages not be a dry academic exercise but a terrific, heartwarming crowdpleaser, The Artist is some kind of a miracle. In an age when so much product is forced on the masses, |
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