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Review: Dinner For Schmucks (12A)

Paul Rudd and Steve Carell love British comedy

4:49pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Sadly, Dinner For Schmucks isn’t a bountiful feast of rip-roaring laughs. The plot relies on a series of clumsy set pieces to drive it towards its inevitable reversal of fortunes.

Review: Don’t Tell The Bride, BBC3

4:35pm Friday 3rd September 2010

MOST women have planned their ideal big day years before the actual event.

Review: The Last Exorcism (15)

Review: The Last Exorcism (15)

4:37pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Filmed in the faux documentary style, popularised by The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, The Last Exorcism follows a fourth generation evangelical preacher as he attempts to expose exorcism as pure bunkum.

Review: Jonah Hex (15)

Review: Jonah Hex (15)

4:46pm Friday 3rd September 2010

ONE man embarks on a quest for vengeance in a bloodthirsty adventure based on a popular graphic novel.

Review: Stephen Tompkinson’s Australian Balloon Adventure, ITV1

HOT AIR: Actor Stephen Tompkinson

4:46pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

WHO he? An actor who was in Ballykissangel, apparently, which is obviously enough to earn him the right to base a series on journeying across Australia in a balloon.

Review: Mastermind, BBC2

QUIZ MASTER: John Humphrys of Mastermind

4:47pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

WHAT has happened to Mastermind? Since Magnus Magnusson quit this, the Everest of quizzes, the questions have definitely got easier.

Review: The Switch (12A)

Review: The Switch (12A)

4:35pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

Originally entitled The Baster, which succinctly sums up the intentions of this quirky romantic comedy, Josh Gordon and Will Speck’s film is a modern-day story of parenthood with two significant stumbling blocks: there is no sexual chemistry between the lead actors and Allan Loeb forgot to impregnate his script with big laughs.

Review: Grown Ups (12A)

Review: Grown Ups (12A)

3:32pm Friday 27th August 2010

Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf penned this comedy, directed by Dennis Dugan, about a group of 40-something male friends who hanker for a return to the carefree days of their youth.

Review: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (PG)

Review: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (PG)

3:34pm Friday 27th August 2010

Based on the best-selling illustrated novel by Jeff Kinney, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is a coming of age comedy about those painful pre-teenage years when everyone wants to fit in.

Review: The X Factor, ITV1

3:12pm Friday 27th August 2010

IS it me? Have we really got to the point that The X Factor is the peak of TV programming?

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)

2:48pm Friday 27th August 2010

The late Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy, which began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, continues with this gritty descent into the sickening world of sex trafficking.

Review: Teen Undertaker, Channel 4

UNUSUAL CAREER CHOICE: Teen undertakers Paul and Laura starred in Channel 4’s documentary

12:01pm Thursday 26th August 2010

I HAD a mate at school who wanted to be an undertaker — he ended up working for M&S.

Review: In Their Own Words: British Novelists, BBC4

AUTHOR: WH Auden on BBC4’s In Their Own Words: British Novelists

11:59am Thursday 26th August 2010

YES, as you will have gathered, I am an intellectual.

Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (12A)

Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (12A)

11:19am Thursday 26th August 2010

One man’s quest for love could result in a little more than a broken heart in Edgar Wright’s video game-styled comedy based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley.

Review: The One Show, BBC1

4:08pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

THEY might have faced mixed reviews but Jason Manford and Alex Jones could be just what The One Show needed if you ask me.

Review: Marmaduke (U)

ENTERTAINING: Marmaduke

4:00pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

Based on the newspaper comic strip by Brand Anderson and Phil Leeming, Marmaduke is a mildly entertaining family comedy about the rites of passage of a dog who believes you have to wag your tail to someone else's beat to fit in.

Review: Salt (12A)

MEDIOCRITY: Angelina Jolie in her latest film Salt

3:54pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

Angelina Jolie's first film for two years takes itself far too seriously.

Review: Gears And Tears, BBC1

families at “war”: The Wainmans of Yorkshire and the Smiths of Lancashire in Gears And Tears

3:28pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

I DISLIKE petrolheads and, indeed, believe the first six letters could easily be replaced by something more offensive and still mean the same.

Review: The Expendables (15)

Review: The Expendables (15)

5:38pm Friday 20th August 2010

Brawn triumphs over brains in Sylvester Stallone’s explosive adventure that shoe-horns some of the biggest names of the movie action genre into one preposterous, all-guns-blazing film.

Review: EastEnders, BBC1

2:37pm Friday 13th August 2010

THE PC brigade has been ranting again this week. This time, it’s about the pre-watershed drugs binge indulged in by Walford Square’s finest addict Phil Mitchell.

Review: The Last Airbender (PG)

Review: The Last Airbender (PG)

2:39pm Friday 13th August 2010

M Night Shyamalan is an odd choice to direct a special effects-laden adventure based on the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Review: Heartbeat, ITV1

LAST ARREST: Joe McFadden as PC Joe Mason

1:32pm Thursday 12th August 2010

I WENT up to Goathland recently and there seemed to be a distinct lack of crime going on — come 8 o’clock on a Sunday night, though, and it’s all happening.

Review: Fat and Proud, Sky 3

Review: Fat and Proud, Sky 3

1:28pm Thursday 12th August 2010

WELL, I suppose we don’t have too much to be proud of these days, so we might as well shout about being overweight.

Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG)

Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG)

1:26pm Thursday 12th August 2010

Halfway through Jon Turteltaub’s fast-paced yarn, the eponymous hero calls upon what little magical knowledge he possesses to command an army of mops to clean his secret hideaway.

Review: Step Up 3D (12A)

Review: Step Up 3D (12A)

5:33pm Thursday 5th August 2010

ANYTHING StreetDance 3D can do, Step Up 3D can apparently do better.

Review: Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (U)

Review: Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (U)

5:34pm Thursday 5th August 2010

AFTER years in hiding, Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler) breaks cover to steal valuable technology which she needs to construct a device that will get rid of the pesky dogs once and for all.

Review: Man v Food, Good Food Channel

top dog: A giant-size hotdog prepared for Adam Richman’s challenge

1:24pm Thursday 5th August 2010

THIS programme confirms all your — well, my — worst prejudices about Americans.

Review: Knight And Day (12A)

Review: Knight And Day (12A)

1:20pm Thursday 5th August 2010

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have starred in some of the most financially successful and critically acclaimed films of the past 25 years, collecting numerous awards for their efforts.

Review: Gainsbourg (15)

Review: Gainsbourg (15)

3:33pm Friday 30th July 2010

Joann Sfar’s imaginative biopic charts the tumultuous life of singer Serge Gainsbourg.

Review: The Karate Kid (PG)

Review: The Karate Kid (PG)

3:24pm Friday 30th July 2010

Director Harald Zwart is a brave man, attempting a remake of one of the most fondly cherished films of the 1980s.







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