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DVD review | The Dark Knight Rises – Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy comes to an epic conclusion

Christopher Nolan brings his epic Batman trilogy to an awesome conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, giving Christian Bale’s brooding vigilante superhero one last hurrah against the forces of anarchy and chaos that invariably beset Gotham City. Eight years have … Continue reading

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Film review | The Dark Knight Rises – Class war comes to Gotham as Nolan sends Batman out with a bang

Christopher Nolan brings his epic Batman trilogy to an awesome conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, giving Christian Bale’s brooding vigilante superhero one last hurrah against the forces of anarchy and chaos that invariably beset Gotham City. To begin with, … Continue reading

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Inception – Christopher Nolan’s dazzling sci-fi thriller has heart as well as brains

Christopher Nolan pulled off the year’s most daring cinematic coup with his mind-boggling thriller Inception. In a summer when the big studios mostly played safe with remakes, rip-offs and sequels, Nolan somehow managed to make a dazzlingly smart, deeply personal … Continue reading

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News Hound | China pulls Avatar from its cinemas and Channing Tatum wants to strip – again!

  China is pulling the 2-D version of Avatar from its cinemas, causing much speculation as to why. Kellan ‘Twilight’ Lutz is up against two other actors for the role of Conan (The Barbarian) in an upcoming remake of the … Continue reading

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News Muse – it’s all about the actors

Last week, News Muse was speculating over whether Joaquin Phoenix had lost the plot or if there was some method to his madness. Well, not to my surprise, the Artist Formerly Known As Reatively Normal has the world as his … Continue reading

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The Best view | The Dark Knight – Heath Ledger’s anarchic Joker steals the show

Back in the summer, the cinema release of The Dark Knight sent fans and critics into a frenzy: box-office records tumbled and superlatives gushed. Yet four months on, now that the delirium has abated, it’s clear that Christopher Nolan’s grim … Continue reading

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News Muse – Christian Bale(d)

Everyone always talks about the news drought this time of year. Especially journalists. As if that would justify making, say, SJP’s disappearing mole front page news. Oh, pur-leease! And if I see one more pap shot of a sunbathing celebrity … Continue reading

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