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Happy Birthday Carey Mulligan! Does a tattooed future await?

Carey Mulligan did such a good job playing a worldly teenager in An Education that it came as a shock to learn that she’s 25 today. Happy birthday Carey! I’m looking forward to seeing her as Michael (Gordon Gekko) Douglas’s … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Long in the tooth… When vampire Edward turns his back on Bella, the heartbroken teenager finds comfort in her deepening friendship with werewolf Jacob. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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“White Lady Saves the Day” & other honest movie titles

The red-carpet may have been rolled up for another year, but we’re still chuckling over the spoof movie posters for this year’s Academy Awards list of Best Film nominees. This honest-title poster for The Blind Side is spot on, but … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | An Education – Carey Mulligan’s Jenny learns lessons in life & love

Rising star Carey Mulligan won a well-deserved Bafta and an Oscar nomination for her pitch-perfect performance as the teenage protagonist of sharp, smart, witty coming-of-age drama An Education. Scripted by Nick Hornby from the memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, the … Continue reading

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Avatar, The Hurt Locker and An Education get loved up by BAFTA

The luvies at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have just announced their nominations for this year’s BAFTAs and surprises are in fairly short supply. James Cameron’s eco-friendly sci-fi blockbuster Avatar looks set to be one of the … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

A Christmas Carol Christmas spirits… Jim Carrey voices Ebenezer Scrooge, and several other characters, in this animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic morality tale about an old miser. Bah! Humbug! If you can see this, then you might need a … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | An Education

Journalist Lynn Barber, known as Demon Barber for her razor-witted interviews, caused quite a stir when the memoir of her teenage years in early-60s London appeared in Granta magazine in 2003 and revealed her seduction as a 16 year old … Continue reading

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BFI 53rd London Film Festival – Opening night… and the pick of the rest

The Times BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the world premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson’s screen version of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s story. Hollywood royalty will be turning out in force at the gala screening in Leicester … Continue reading

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