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DVD review | Mirror Mirror – Tongue-in-cheek fairytale flick is glossy not Grimm

Posted on 30 July 2012 by Jason Best

‘Who’s the fairest of them all,’ is a cruel question to pose to a Hollywood beauty in her forties facing competition from ever-younger starlets, but Julia Roberts gamely takes it on the chin in Mirror Mirror, a snazzy tongue-in-cheek reinvention … Continue reading →

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Film review | Mirror Mirror – Julia Roberts & Lily Collins find out who’s fairest in snazzy fairytale flick

Posted on 31 March 2012 by Jason Best

‘Who’s the fairest of them all,’ is a cruel question to pose to a Hollywood beauty in her forties facing competition from ever-younger starlets, but Julia Roberts gamely takes it on the chin in Mirror Mirror, a snazzy tongue-in-cheek reinvention … Continue reading →

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Film review | J Edgar – Clint and Leo’s warts’n'all study of FBI boss Hoover: one for the waxworks museum

Posted on 21 January 2012 by Jason Best

Leonardo DiCaprio puts his pin-up days well and truly behind him to play notorious FBI chief J Edgar Hoover from youthful idealist to paranoid old age in Clint Eastwood’s solid but stodgy biopic J Edgar. It’s not a flattering portrait. Playing … Continue reading →

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