Read more about the article ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ review: Ten times better than the first movie
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) and Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen) in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ review: Ten times better than the first movie

With a new director and a bigger budget comes a film adaptation that surpasses its predecessor by all counts.

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Read more about the article ‘Rush’ review: Possibly as thrilling as going to the F1 races itself
Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt and Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda in Rush

‘Rush’ review: Possibly as thrilling as going to the F1 races itself

Watched two movies last night: a documentary about Formula 1 called 1 (trailer below), and Rush, about the 1970s rivalry between F1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde.

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Read more about the article ‘The World’s End’ review: Literally
From left: Martin Freeman (Oliver Chamberlain), Paddy Considine (Steven Prince), Simon Pegg (Gary King), Nick Frost (Andy Knightley) and Eddie Marsan (Peter Page) in The World's End

‘The World’s End’ review: Literally

The World's End is British comedy gold, pure and simple. Written with razor-sharp British wit (which means lots of straight-laced humour, puns and even visual gags) by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, it rounds up their "Cornetto Trilogy" (named so because they feature a Cornetto flavour in each of them), which includes Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, two other comedies in the same vein.

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Read more about the article Second impressions: ‘Iron Man 3’
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man 3

Second impressions: ‘Iron Man 3’

Re-watched Iron Man 3, this time with subtitles. I love re-watching movies with subtitles -- it just makes them much clearer. Whenever I catch a movie in theatres, I am only able to get about 80 percent of the dialogue, as they tend to mumble or speak too fast. And many times, for the dialogue that I do catch, the nuances of what they actually said don't really register until much later when I've time to think about it (which I don't, since I'll have forgotten it by then), or until I see it staring in my face in subtitles. (Yeah, you can probably tell that I am the worst kind of listener in conversations.)

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Read more about the article ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ review: When the White House falls, a Hero will Rise
Gerard Butler as former Secret Service agent Mike Banning on his one-man avenging quest in Olympus Has Fallen

‘Olympus Has Fallen’ review: When the White House falls, a Hero will Rise

I've been wanting to watch Olympus Has Fallen ever since I found out that Aaron Eckhart is playing the President in it. (Huge fan, handsome guy, wish he acted in more movies that weren't box-office failures.) And it lived up to its exciting promise.

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