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Change #3 - <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtl=0000204701.jpg|0000107931]Mongol[/i] – If the other two instalments in the planned trilogy about Genghis Khan are as good as this, it’ll be a superb cinematic achievement. Review of the [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107933"]Blu-ray Disc[/url] and [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107932"]DVD[/url] on the site. <newline> <newline>[i] <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[imgtr=0000204802.jpg|0000108063]Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation[/i] – Part of the Starship Troopers Box Set – review to follow. <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtl=0000204795.jpg|0000108056]Starship Troopers 3: Marauder[/i] – Released both as part of the box set and individually – review to follow once I’ve watched all the extras. <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[heading]DVD[/heading] <newline> <newline>[imgtl=0000204613.jpg|0000107834][i]Feast[/i] – A gory and occasionally funny horror flick by the winners of the third season of Project Greenlight, review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107835"]here[/url]. <newline> <newline>[i] <newline>[imgtr=0000204775.jpg|0000108028]Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer[/i] – A B-movie comedy horror that asks not to be taken seriously and, as such, is great fun; it’s a good disc to boot – review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=108029"]here.[/url] <newline> <newline>[i] <newline>[imgtl=0000204776.jpg|0000108031]P2[/i] – Disappointingly formulaic horror from the creators of Haute Tension – review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=108042"]here.[/url] <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[imgtr=0000204799.jpg|0000108060] <newline>[i] [imgtr=0000204798.jpg|0000108059]Eden Lake[/i] – With a premise that could have been proposed by Paul Dacre, this British horror movie begins with a very contemporary problem: you have taken your girlfriend, to whom you plan to propose, on a camping trip to a picturesque flooded quarry and a group of kids show, play loud music and generally annoy you. Do you a) ignore them and hope they’ll go away, b) move to a different location when you really don’t want to or c) intervene and turn their music down? <newline> <newline>When Steve (Michael Fassbender) goes for option c, the feral children don’t like his interference and unleash an assault, first verbal, then physical that makes this a very nasty and occasionally wince inducing horror movie that is sadly not too hard to believe. I’m not sure whether writer/director James Watkins and the team behind the superb The Descent took the violence too far, but it all seems contextualised and not exploitative. Kelly Reilly is excellent and it was good to see Thomas Turgoose in one of the more complex child roles. :) <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtr=0000204796.jpg|0000108057]Somers Town[/i] – From Shane Meadows comes this charming and witty story of a young runaway from Nottingham (Thomas Turgoose) who goes to London and, after being mugged, befriends the son of a Polish migrant worker. They base their friendship around the love of a French waitress and there are plenty of funny and heart-warming moments. I thought Eurostar’s sponsorship would show and result in a heavy handed advertising campaign for the company but, when the two boys travel to France, it fits and doesn’t seem tacked on for commercial reasons. :) <newline> <newline> <newline>[i] <newline>[imgsl=0000204801.jpg|0000108062[i] [imgtl=0000204701.jpg|0000107931]Mongol[/i] – If the other two instalments in the planned trilogy about Genghis Khan are as good as this, it’ll be a superb cinematic achievement. Reviews of the [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107933"]Blu-ray Disc[/url] and [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107932"]DVD[/url] on the site. <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtr=0000204802.jpg|0000108063]Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation[/i] – Part of the Starship Troopers Box Set – review to follow. <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtl=0000204795.jpg|0000108056]Starship Troopers 3: Marauder[/i] – Released both as part of the box set and individually – review to follow once I’ve watched all the extras. <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[heading]DVD[/heading] <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtl=0000204613.jpg|0000107834]Feast[/i] – A gory and occasionally funny horror flick by the winners of the third season of Project Greenlight, review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=107835"]here[/url]. <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtr=0000204775.jpg|0000108028]Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer[/i] – A B-movie comedy horror that asks not to be taken seriously and, as such, is great fun; it’s a good disc to boot – review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=108029"]here.[/url] <newline> <newline>[b] <newline>[/b][i] [imgtl=0000204776.jpg|0000108031]P2[/i] – Disappointingly formulaic horror from the creators of Haute Tension – review [url="http://nosferatu.myreviewer.com/default.asp?a=108042"]here.[/url] <newline> <newline>[i] <newline>[imgtr=0000204799.jpg|0000108060]World Rally Championship 1985-89[/i] – Fantastic coverage of some wonderful racing by cars that were banned for being too fast. Review to follow once I’ve seen the last couple of discs. <newline> <newline> <newline>[heading] <newline> <newline>Cinema[/heading] <newline> <newline>[i] [imgtl=0000204798.jpg|0000108059]Eden Lake[/i] – With a premise that could have been proposed by Paul Dacre, this British horror movie begins with a very contemporary problem: you have taken your girlfriend, to whom you plan to propose, on a camping trip to a picturesque flooded quarry and a group of kids show, play loud music and generally annoy you. Do you a) ignore them and hope they’ll go away, b) move to a different location when you really don’t want to or c) intervene and turn their music down? <newline> <newline>When Steve (Michael Fassbender) goes for option c, the feral children don’t like his interference and unleash an assault, first verbal, then physical that makes this a very nasty and occasionally wince inducing horror movie that is sadly not too hard to believe. 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I thought Eurostar’s sponsorship would show and result in a heavy handed advertising campaign for the company but, when the two boys travel to France, it fits and doesn’t seem tacked on for commercial reasons. :) <newline> <newline>[i] <newline> <newline>[imgsl=0000204801.jpg|0000108062]The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas[/i] – I haven’t read the book on which this was based but making a film about the holocaust for children is a daunting task – the sheer scale of the atrocity has never yet been fully captured on film but this does a very good job, albeit in a slightly fantastic way, showing the events through the innocent eyes of a child. When his father, a soldier, is posted to the country, Bruno (Asa Butterfield) has to leave his friends behind and try and busy himself in unwelcoming surroundings. <newline> <newline>An avid reader of adventure books, he goes exploring to find the ‘farm’ he saw from his bedroom window where the men and children wear striped pyjamas like his. Finding a huge electrified wire fence with barbed wire on the top and a boy his age (Jack Scanlon) on the other side, he is confused by the barrier and the disparity between the ideology his teacher is teaching him and his sister and the young Jewish boy who he befriends. Both young boys are brilliant, Vera Farmiga is very powerful as Bruno’s mother and David Thewlis gives a nuanced performance as his father and camp commander. <newline> <newline>The ending and the holocaust theme rightly deserve a 12A certificate and it’s certainly not a film for younger children – even those nearer secondary school age will probably need someone to talk to after the film has finished. :) <newline> <newline> <newline> <newline>[heading]Television[/heading] <newline> <newline>[i] [i
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