I’m developing a love/hate relationship with the Sneak Preview at my local cinema. They used to show some pretty good movies, but lately it’s all been utter crap. Take this movie for instance. “Honey” makes “Coyote Ugly” look like a masterpiece.

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Not being much of a skateboarder, I’d never heard of Mark ‘Gator’ Rogowski before seeing this film. He was one of the first skateboarders in the 80′s to turn pro and find himself earning a small fortune and big fame at the tender age of 17. A fairy tale that went very wrong.

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If one didn’t know any better, this movie would seem a typical Farrelly-Bros product. Most ingredients are there: a suffering main character, a seemingly doomed love interest, tasteless jokes about bowel movements and bodily fluids and crazy sidekicks from Planet Bizarre. This feeling is only further strengthened by the presence of Ben Stiller, who has played similar roles for the ‘Smut Brothers’ before. However, they are not responsible for this comedy, which seems to have been made accordingly to their trademark recipe. They say the imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but is it also the case here?

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This loose comedy is a far cry from the action and spectacle that is usually offered by director Ridley Scott. This film is crisp and clean with a littleness over it that we usually find with smaller projects. Here, Scott delivers a film that is visibly made with fun and enthusiasm and a solid cast to back it up.

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Seeing the skills of talented writer Michael Crichton and Superman and Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner combined should provide the ingredients of an interesting and fascinating adventure movie. At least, that was my first thought when I heard about Timeline. The story itself may sound a bit ridiculous, but if you set that aside and just go with the flow, it could have been quite a nice ride. Alas, Timeline is an absolute insult to the viewer’s intelligence.

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Grace (Nicole Kidman) is being chased by gangsters. She hides in a small Colorado town. At first the town folk don’t want her to stay. But Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) proposes that she’d do chores for everyone and in exchange she’d get to stay. At first people agree with this plan. But when they have to choose between preserving their community and saving Grace …

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I recently splurged on a 5 DVD order from amazon.co.uk which included four very British films (the fifth was the very American Boys Don’t Cry which I’ll review when I have watched it again). One of those British films was Made in Britain by Alan Clarke. Clarke is one of my favourite British directors as he had a great talent for conveying the working-class desolation in 1980′s Britain without being sentimental.

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The last time I saw this film before tonight was about twenty years ago. All I remembered was that it was about boxing, is considered a classic and has Sly Stallone in it. It won the Oscar for Best Film in 1976, but to be honest, I can’t understand why.

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It’s been five years since Woody Allen last made a film that showed off how great a writer and director he can be. Sweet and Lowdown (1999), starring Sean Penn, was Allen at his best and certainly dismissed his critics who said that his mid-life crisis and relationship with a girl old enough to be his granddaughter marked the end of Woody Allen the great New York story teller. Yet, five years is a long time to wait for something of real substance, and in the meantime he’s given us some predictable, light comedy that was not totally without merit, but it wasn’t particularly crammed with it either. So the question is, does his latest film have anything else to offer?

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We all have a couple of movies that we can watch over and over again and don’t get boring. We marvel at the images, dialogue and discover new details upon every viewing. This masterpiece of John Boorman is one of those movies to me. Just recently, the old master-moviemaker got honoured at the annual BAFTA-awards, where he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship for his impressive career.

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