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First Take: Avengers Assemble- PUNY GOD.

Plot in simpler terms- Marvel’s main heroes come together to take down Loki from the Thor movies Avengers. A film that 2 years ago I loved to hate. No…
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First Take: Scrooged - maybe we should all put a little love in our hearts

Plot in simpler terms- basically A Christmas Carol set in 1988- slap bang in the middle of a TV station Now, as has been seen with the Get Santa revie…
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First Take: The Woman in Black- HOOOOLLLLYYY COOOOWWWW!

Plot in simpler terms- inspired by the novel, basically supernatural stuff going down in the 1800s When I seen the menu for the DVD I instantly regret…
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First Take Classics: Skyfall- not much I can really say here.

SYPNOSIS: Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the thre…
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First Take: Capote- Someone who clearly lives In Cold Blood...

Plot in simpler terms- Biopic about Truman Capote while he was writing his last and most successful book In Cold Blood Now then, here’s something diff…
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First Take Classics: Attack The Block- a film that gave us a Stormtrooper and a Doctor

SYPNOSIS: A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. Film4 have had a very proven track record when it comes to supporting…
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First Take: Notting Hill- I despise romcoms yet still reviewed it...

Plot in simpler terms- stereotypical Richard Curtis fayre, boy meets very famous girl and a whole series of events begin As I sit here typing this I h…
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First Take: Get Santa- Jim Broadbent as Santa? What is going on...

Plot in simpler terms- Santa gets arrested on Christmas Eve, so the world relies on an ex-convict and his son to save the day I was not expecting much…
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First Take: Les Misérables (2013) - the film is good, but it ain't the stage show.

Plot in simpler terms: Based on the musical we all know and love, in a nutshell it’s about the French Revolution. My family LOVES the musical. So I se…
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First Take Classics: Paddington- the perfect family film

SYNOPSIS- A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brow…
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First Take Classics: Interstellar - Christopher Nolan shows how sci-fi SHOULD be done

SYNOPSIS: When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a te…
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First Take: Looper- Rian Johnson's hybrid of sci-fi and action ticks all the right boxes

Plot in simpler (well, as simple as I can get) terms- Set in 2044, a time where time travelling hasn’t been invented (but it will have in 30 years, a…
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First Take: The Maze Runner- ANOTHER TEEN BOOK ADAPTATION?

Plot in simpler terms- Based on the book of the same name, basically Lord of the Flies with less killing and more mazes This is the biggest understate…
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First Take: Kinky Boots- the ultimate feel good film

Plot in simpler terms- Based on a true story (I know), the film follows a struggling shoe factory who end up making a profit creating boots for drag …
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First Take 2004: Shark Tale- Will Smith is a fish. Enough said.

Plot in simpler terms- Fish called Oscar has to slay sharks in order to make it big in society. When I seen this back in 2004, I thought this was one …
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First Take Classics: Inception- Dreaming about dreaming about dreaming

SYNOPSIS: A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind…
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First Take: Magic Mike- Cringe on another level, and that's just the dancing

Plot in simpler terms- Partly based on Channing Tatum’s life story as it’s about his career as a stripper A lot of women have asked me to see this- an…
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First Take: The Boxtrolls- WHAT IN THE NAME OF PARANORMAN IS GOING ON?

SYNOPSIS: A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Didn’t think I…
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Indie First Take: The Guard- Brendan Gleeson has just proved that Irish comedy rocks.

Plot in simpler terms- Feisty Irish cop gets paired with no-nonsense American FBI agent to take down a sizable drug ring. Irish film has always been a…
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First Take: The Meaning of Life- Part VIII- The Smit Review

Plot in simpler terms- The Monty Python boys discuss exactly what is the meaning of life in a series of their groundbreaking sketches. After reviewing…
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First Take: The Inbetweeners 2- Soz Oz...

Plot in simpler terms- Will, Neil and Simon join Jay on a ‘mental gap year’ in Australia. This film has had a lot of negative criticism but to be brut…
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First Take: Guardians of The Galaxy: Marvel nail it once again

SYPNOSIS: A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe Marvel have r…
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First Take: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes- APES NOT KILL

Plot in simpler terms- Follows up from 2011’s Rise: Caesar and the apes have to make peace with the humans while a select few want to kill. I am speec…
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First Take: Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie- The Mammy of 2014's Summer Films

Plot in simpler terms- Outspoken Irish mammy takes on the suits over a 3.8 million euro tax bill. As a die hard fan of the TV show I had set my expect…
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First Take: Tammy- Road trips on whiskey...

Plot in simpler terms- Girl gets sacked from restaurant chain and ends up on a road trip with her alcoholic granny. Wow. I had very high expectations …
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First Take: Monty Python’s The Life Of Brian- He's not the messiah, he's just a very naughty boy

SYPNOSIS: Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. The 1970s gave us some gre…
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First Take: Road - a stellar insight into the Kings of the TT Mountain Couse

SYNOPSIS: Following the motorcycle road racing careers, and fate, of the Dunlop family. For fans of the Isle of Man TT, there's one family name sy…
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First Take- 22 Jump Street- Bigger, better and funnier.

Plot in simpler yerms- Basically the first film on a bigger scale. And they’re at college (university). After reviewing the first film a few weeks bac…
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First Take: Shaun Of The Dead- Want anything from the shop?

So, I’ve now reviewed the entire Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. Boom. Plot in simpler terms- A zombie apocalypse has to be controlled by a man who h…
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FIRST TAKE- X Men: Days Of Future Past- Stuff just got real in 1973...

Let the Summer Blockbuster season begin. Plot in simpler terms- Wolverine has to travel to the past to save the future from Mystique with the help of …
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First Take Classics: Hot Fuzz- They fought the law and comedy won

SYPNOSIS: Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While…
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First Take: 21 Jump Street- A cop movie on steroids...

Plot in simpler terms: 2 rookie cops get sent back to school to take down a drug lord Well, I have finally seen why you lot enjoyed it first time roun…
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First Take Classics: Pitch Perfect- the new kind of musical comedy

SYNOPSIS: Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school’s all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed …
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First Take: Rio 2 - Blue Sky's newest IP continues to fly

Plot in simpler terms- Follows on from 2011’s box office smash- Blu has to practically save his girlfriend’s family and the rainforest. Too difficult…
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First Take: Muppets Most Wanted- Reach out and Touch The Frog...

SYNOPSIS: While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike …
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First Take: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - he is siege face...

SYPNOSIS: When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan…
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First Take- The Lego Movie: instructions/review required for further assembly

SYNOPSIS: An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as “special”, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from g…
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TJS Projection Room- My views on the BAFTAs

Well, we’ve just seen the best UK film successes honoured at the 67th EE BAFTA Film Awards. I am very surprised at some of the award-winners, namely …
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First Take: Cuban Fury - StudioCanal's latest comedy falls short of the mark

SYNOPSIS: Beneath Bruce Garrett’s under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to…
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First Take: Last Vegas - a relatively OK comedy for what it is

SYNOPSIS: Billy, Paddy, Archie and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, they go to Vegas t…
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