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☻☻☻☻ Wonderful, see it in the cinema over and over

☻☻☻Great, well worth the admission / DVD / etc

☻☻ Fluff, but fun

☻ Flawed, yet watchable

Inspector Aurelio Zen (BBC)

☻ ☻ ☻ New series! Michael Dibdin 's Inspector Aurelio Zen (BBC). Only three episodes. RIP ? Filmed on location, the show's worth...
The Tunnel (2011)

☻ The Tunnel (2011). A television news crew transform the Blair Witch Project (1999) by keeping the camera under control. Well, sort of....
The Borgias (2011)

☻ ☻ ☻ The Borgias (2011). The 15th century was a rough time to be Pope. Especially if you were a Spaniard. Rodrigo Borgia , aka Alexander...
A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)

☻ ☻ ☻ A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) . In Norwegian with English subtitles. Like many before him, Ulrik ( Stellan Skarsgård of The G...
The Millenium Trilogy (2009)

☻ ☻ ☻ See any of the Swedish films adapted from Steig Larssen 's Millennium Trilogy . Watch them dubbed or subtitled, I saw both a...
Rango (2011)

☻ ☻ ☻ Rango (2011). A household pet goes walkabout in this modern animated adaptation of the Grimms Brothers' fairytale, The Brave L...
Jane Eyre (2011)

☻ ☻ Jane Eyre (2011). After all I've seen about this highly anticipated film, it was no surprise that I was in for a let-down. Yes, it...
True Grit (2010)

☻ ☻ ☻ True Grit (2010). Young Mattie Ross ( Hailee Steinfeld ) wants a man with true grit. He'll need it if he's to hunt down her...