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# film review

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‘I mean to beat you to death and drink your blood from a boot’ – Tom Cruise

The pocket dynamo bulks up with vests and flannels but can’t save Jack Reacher

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Dec 27th 2012, 3:00 PM

The Hobbit - is it actually any good?

Patrick McCarry delivers the verdict on Peter Jackson’s new blockbuster… and recognises that chap from Cold Feet.

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Dec 13th 2012, 9:09 AM

An Adam Sandler-produced movie about cage fighting? I’m there!

Kevin James plays a biology teacher who inexplicably gets a shot at a $50,000 UFC fight. Here’s Patrick McCarry’s take on Here comes the Boom.

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Nov 9th 2012, 1:00 PM