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New Release Review - Les Miserables

Directed by: Tom Hooper
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks

Big screen version of the popular stage musical.

New Release Review - Zero Dark Thirty

Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke

Dramatization of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

New Release Review - Song For Marion

Directed by: Paul Andrew Williams
Starring: Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave

When singing enthusiast Redgrave passes away, her insular husband, Stamp, reluctantly joins her vocal group as they prepare for a national choir contest.


Hollow DVD Winners


The Movie Waffler and Metrodome offered you the chance to win a copy of upcoming British horror movie 'Hollow' on DVD.

New Release Review - Bullet to the Head

Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sarah Shahi

A hitman and a cop team up to solve the murders of their partners.

New Release Review - Gangster Squad

Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Mireille Enos, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Frank Grillo, Michael Pena

Cartoonish recreation of the L.A.P.D's war on gangster Mickey Cohen during the forties.

New Release Review - Texas Chainsaw 3D

Directed by: John Luessenhop 
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Gunnar Hansen

The popular horror franchise gets the 3D treatment.

New Release Review - The Impossible

Directed by: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin

Reworking of the real-life experiences of a family caught up in the 2004 boxing day tsunami.

New Release Review - Quartet


Directed by: Dustin Hoffman
Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Sheridan Smith

Hoffman assembles a talented veteran British cast for his directorial debut.

New Release Reviews - The Words / The Paperboy / John Dies at the End

The Words
Directed by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Zoe Saldana
When struggling writer Cooper comes across an old novel manuscript, he retypes it and passes it off as his own. The book goes on to become a bestseller, with Cooper enjoying his fame until he is approached by the real author, Irons.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Family Plot (1976)

Hitch's final film is a convoluted and talky affair that plays more like the TV movies of its era.

New Release Review - Lincoln

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Jared Harris, Tim Blake Nelson

Biopic of America's most revered president.

The 25 Best Movies of 2012


Here are the 25 movies which had the most impact on The Waffler in 2012.

The 25 Worst Movies of 2012


It might be Christmas now, but here at The Movie Waffler, we've had our share of turkeys all year long. Here are the twenty-five worst films we had the displeasure of enduring in 2012.

New Release Review - Life of Pi

Directed by: Ang Lee
Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu, Tabu

A writer (Spall) is recounted a fantastic tale by Pi (Khan), the sole survivor of a shipwreck.

New Release Review - Love Crime

Directed by: Alain Corneau
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille

When the head of the Paris branch of a large American firm takes credit for the work of her assistant it sparks an increasingly hostile animosity between the two women.

The 2012 Golden Waffle Awards


The Movie Waffler is proud to announce this year's recipients of the Golden Waffle awards for outstanding achievements in cinema during 2012.

The 2012 Rotten Waffle Awards


It's time once more to celebrate achievements in cinematic ineptitude. This year's winners are...

New Year Preview


Over the past few years, the strongest films have tended to come out early in the year. Here's our preview of the films whetting our appetite this coming January/February*.

The Waffler's ABCs of Cinema

This article is part of Mettelray's "My Movie Alphabet" blogathon. The rules are simple, match each letter of the alphabet with something you love about cinema. Without further ado, here are The Movie Waffler's ABC's of cinema.