Video Reviews

Coco Before Chanel a welcome dose of Gallic chic
Coco Before Chanel (Cert 12, 105 mins, Drama/Romance)
Coco Before Chanel is a welcome dose of Gallic chic chronicling the rise to fame of one of couture’s most revered icons.
Land Of The Lost is a deeply unsatisfying mish-mash of comedy
Land Of The Lost (Cert 12, 97 mins, Comedy/Sci-Fi/Action/Romance)
Dr Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) becomes the laughing stock of the scientific community for his outlandish theories on time-warps.
Ice Age 3 is family fun
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Cert U, Family/Comedy/Action)
Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo) yearns for a family so he ‘appropriates’ a nest of soon-to-hatch dinosaur eggs.
Terminator Salvation bleak and sombre affair
Terminator Salvation (Cert 12, 110 mins, Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller)
John Connor (Christian Bale) leads the dwindling human race against Skynet and its relentless army of Terminators, with his doctor wife Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard).
‘Star Trek’ breathes new life into iconic franchise
Cocksure and impetuous James T Kirk (Chris Pine) enrols at Starfleet Academy, making an instant friend in Dr Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban).

Little to warm to in ‘Four Christmases’
Every Christmas, San Francisco couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) make outlandish, charity work-related excuses to avoid spending the festive season together.
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