Maryann O’Connor

In Review: Think like A Man on DVD

by Maryann O'Connor 22 October 2012

The self-help adaptation usually has the defining feature of being just as earnest and drippy as the book it’s based on; perhaps even drippier if Hollywood has its extra-rosy tinted dollar-sign glasses on and J-Lo on speeddial. So, the good news about Think like A Man is that the drip factor is fairly reduced, a [...]

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In Review: Rosewood Lane on DVD

by Maryann O'Connor 17 October 2012

The first few minutes of Rosewood Lane would suggest that the events to follow will form the basis of a pretty decent cheesy horror. Radio talkshow therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) is summoned by the police to her father’s house, her childhood home, where his lifeless form has been found sprawled at the bottom of [...]

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In Review: Hotel Transylvania (3D)

by Maryann O'Connor 12 October 2012

Count Dracula maintains that he built Hotel Transylvania so all his monster fiends could have a place to be themselves without fear of reprise from flaming-torch waving humans but like any other dad, he just wants to keep his daughter locked up and ‘safe’ from the world. On Mavis Dracula’s 118 th birthday her daddy [...]

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In Review: The Landlord (1970)

by Maryann O'Connor 5 October 2012

The Landlord is a fairly unusual sort of film but then again it was made at a fairly unusual time; a time when the world and particularly America was struggling to come to terms with the new state and flux of interracial relations. In this setting, Beau Bridges plays naive rich boy Elgar Enders who [...]

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In Review: Free Men (DVD)

by Maryann O'Connor 19 September 2012

Free Men is a french language dramatisation of the trials faced by the Moroccan and Algerian immigrants in Paris during World War Two. They had arrived in France before the German occupation to find work but many were now without any hope and the occupiers’ relentless search for Jews in their midst had created a [...]

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In Review: Anna Karenina (2012)

by Maryann O'Connor 10 September 2012

Director Joe Wright and Keira Knightley have had a fruitful time together so far, so much so that he wouldn’t have considered any other actress to play the tragic Anna Karenina, even under the threat of torture. Or so we’ve heard.

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Resistencia: Latin America documentary mini-fest

by Maryann O'Connor 28 August 2012

On September 22nd, the excellent Rich Mix in East London are playing host to Resistencia: a mini-fest of eye-opening documentaries on modern Latin America.

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In Review: The Three Stooges

by Maryann O'Connor 24 August 2012

Having experienced much of the Farrelly brothers’ back catalogue, it was not a surprise to learn that they were going to take a stab at a modern film starring these slapstick favourites.

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In Review: The Wedding Video

by Maryann O'Connor 21 August 2012

Weddings often feature in films. They produce that supposedly easily relatable mix of high emotions, high stakes, competition and widespread drunkenness that seems to convince the filmmakers to throw in some disasters in lieu of enhancing the narrative. So, what is usually missing in action is a level of believability, a measure of which is [...]

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In Review: Step Up 4 3D

by Maryann O'Connor 17 August 2012

Having not sat through any of the three previous Step Up films, I did briefly wonder if that would affect my enjoyment of this latest addition to the series. The short answer was no.

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In Review: London: The Modern Babylon

by Maryann O'Connor 9 August 2012

London: The Modern Babylon is a love letter to the tumultuous and colourful city; a love letter in which the writer reassures the recipient that, although they are aware that their love may fart and pick their nose occasionally, they still love them more than life itself.

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