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Mike Davies

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Unstrung Heroes (1995) 76% EDIT “Keaton invests her film with a sensibility that is both wonderfully comic and unbearably poignant. A small but lingering treasure. ” – Birmingham Post Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “So liberal it makes Clinton look like Sadam Hussein, Rob Reiner's frothy confection is engaging, amusing and generally downright charming fare about public face and private life.” – Birmingham Post Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1998) EDIT “This lame, outdated music-biz satire is a woeful reminder of just how bad British comedy can be. Like The Full Monty never happened.” – Birmingham Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Paradise Road (1997) 48% EDIT “The ensemble cast pulls out all the stops to ensure the deaths do shock and the heart is well and truly wrung.” – Birmingham Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Devil's Advocate (1997) 65% EDIT “It's risible melodrama. But diabolically good fun.” – Birmingham Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “A rise-and-fall parable of the American Dream and an end of innocence, the emotional heart of Anderson's overlong, flawed but nonetheless dazzlingly brilliant, style-laden and confidently cocksure film is its non-judgmental, compassionate character study.” – Birmingham Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% EDIT “Punctuated with sporadic bursts of violence, this engrossing, claustrophobic fable about the roulette wheel of life is already out on video but you really should take advantage of its first cinema screening in the city.” – Birmingham Post Sep 22, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 47% EDIT “Too few shocks, a not particularly scary villain and plot holes you could lose a trawler in ensure the only jolts you're likely to experience are from waking up when it's over. ” – Birmingham Post Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) 88% EDIT “A mesmerising, dialogue-free shaggy dog comedy.” – Birmingham Post Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Johns (1996) 54% EDIT “It suffers from overworked, leaden symbolism and an inconsistent script but the twin performances are excellent, there's some snappy dialogue and it's shot through with a poignancy and humanity that'll linger in your heart.” – Birmingham Post Jun 30, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “As rides go, for the most part this is a real switchback of heart-pumping thrills, gob-smacking special effects and sudden shocks that'll have you jumping out of and sometimes under your seat.” – Birmingham Post Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% EDIT “It's ultimately disappointingly hollow.” – Birmingham Post May 6, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% EDIT “As sequel rules dictate, the body count and shock quota's a lot higher. Unusually, it's also a lot scarier and funnier too. ” – Birmingham Post Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% EDIT “Full of depth, colour and a look so lush you can almost smell the vegetation, the forest looks fabulous. The characters, while clearly cartoon, have real life.” – Birmingham Post Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% EDIT “Great for kids, and just as good for the grown-ups, this delivers an emotional resonance, dramatic excitement and visual magic to rank it in the same league Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.” – Birmingham Post Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% EDIT “Glorious to behold and featuring a scene-stealing villainous Jeremy Irons as the treacherous Scar, it stakes a mighty claim to the royal ranks of Disney's Elysium of classics. ” – Birmingham Post Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% EDIT “The problem is that, with its scene-stealing wise-cracking turn from Woods and knowing in-jokes about Greek mythology, merchandising, and the like, it seems to be really more concerned about amusing the grown-ups than pleasing the kids.” – Birmingham Post Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Scream (1996) 78% EDIT “Craven balances tongue-in-cheek knowing spoofing with a serious contribution to the movies-influence-life debate, while throwing in gruesome murders and shocks for good measure. ” – Birmingham Post Oct 10, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% EDIT “Its cartoon treatment of Mexicans smacks of racism, Comeau's a waste of space, and the farce is the dictionary definition of unfunny.” – Birmingham Post Aug 6, 2024 Full Review One Night Stand (1997) 34% EDIT “A moody but disjointed and ultimately insubstantial affair.” – Birmingham Post Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Gallivant (1996) EDIT “Too brisk to offer any real depth of perspective and with Kotting increasingly inserting himself into the frame, it's also too long and too irritating for real emotional impact.” – Birmingham Post Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% EDIT “Nothing's likely to surpass the original, but this comes very close to standing its ground with Aliens.” – Birmingham Post Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Denise Calls Up (1995) 71% EDIT “Debut writer-director Hal Salwen has crafted one of the funniest, most original, most perceptive, and maybe most enjoyable films of the year.” – Birmingham Post Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Rainbow (1996) 13% EDIT “Unfortunately, the leaden manner in which Hoskins chooses to have his young stars do this is one singularly lacking in pace, humour or anything resembling fun or excitement.” – Birmingham Post Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% EDIT “If all you ask from your entertainment is an adrenalin high and hurricane buzz this will blow you away.” – Birmingham Post Jul 16, 2024 Full Review
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