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At the Cinema | Glorious 39
Better known for such TV dramas as The Lost Prince and Perfect Strangers, Stephen Poliakoff returns to the big screen for the first time in almost two decades with Glorious 39, a Hitchcockian thriller about a political conspiracy to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Nighy, Glorious 39, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff, World War Two
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Win Stephen Poliakoff Box Sets on DVD
This competition has now closed. To celebrate the release of Stephen Poliakoff’s tense new thriller, Glorious 39, we’re giving you the chance to re-visit some of his best work by giving away 4 Stephen Poliakoff Box Sets on DVD, courtesy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Nighy, Glorious 39, Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff, World War Two
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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
Angels & Demons Holy thriller… Tom Hanks takes the lead in this adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged angels & demons, Anna Wintour, Bill Nighy, Con O’Neill, Crank 2: High Voltage, Dan Brown, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, James Corden, Jason Statham, Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey, Observe and Report, Pam Ferris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, rhys ifans, Seth Rogan, State of Play, Telstar, The Boat That Rocked, The Damned United, The September Issue, Tom Hanks
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Small screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…
Fast & Furious Full throttle… Vin Diesel’s pushed to the limit in the fourth instalment of the street racing franchise. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 again, angels & demons, Anna Wintour, Bill Nighy, Crank 2: High Voltage, Dead Snow., Fast & Furious, matthew perry, Philip Seymour Hoffman, State of Play, The Boat That Rocked, The Damned United, The September Issue, Vin Diesel, Zak Efron
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The Best view | The Boat That Rocked – Sleazy hi-jinks on board Richard Curtis’s leaky comic vessel
The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis’s celebration of the world of 1960s pirate radio, is a hit and myth affair. For Curtis, the outlaw spirit of the pirates didn’t just shake up the nation’s airwaves. In his film’s version of … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Valkyrie
Despite the looming presence of two major stumbling blocks, Valkyrie, Bryan Singer’s true-story movie about a plot to kill Hitler at the height of World War Two, makes a surprisingly effective wartime thriller. The first obstacle in the viewer’s path … Continue reading
The Best view | State of Play – Stop Press: The Journalist Is Still a Hollywood Hero
From His Girl Friday to All the President’s Men, some of Hollywood’s best movies (and my favourites, too) have been set in the ink-stained world of newspapers, a setting with its own grubby glamour, its own mystique, and an inherent … Continue reading
The Boat That Rocked – Buoyant 60s pop keeps Richard Curtis’s leaky vessel afloat
Yes, we know it’s been a fortnight since The Boat That Rocked set sail in British cinemas, but it’s taken the crew here at Movie Talk all this while to find our sea legs since stepping on board Richard Curtis’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, all day and all of the night, Bill Nighy, Boat That Rocked, easybeats, elenore, Emma Thompson, friday on my mind, kinks, let's spend the night together, Philip Seymour Hoffman, pirate radio, pop music, rhys ifans, Richard Curtis, Rolling Stones, troggs, turtles, with a girl like you
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At the Cinema | Valkyrie
As the tide of World War Two turns against Germany, an aristocratic army colonel joins a clandestine group of disillusioned fellow officers who are conspiring against the Führer in this gripping wartime thriller. Appalled by Nazi atrocities, Tom Cruise’s wounded … Continue reading
The Best view | Tom Cruise plays a one-eyed German officer plotting to kill Hitler in Valkyrie – how close does he get?
After all the pre-release fuss over Tom Cruise playing a German hero, how does the famous Scientologist and sofa jumper’s movie about the soldier who tried to blow up Hitler in 1944 measure up? Is Valkyrie a sober retelling of … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler, Baader Meinhof Complex, Bill Nighy, Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Claus von Stauffenberg, Downfall, Eddie Izzard, Kenneth Branagh, Operation Valkyrie, Terence Stamp, Tom Cruise, Usual Suspects, Valkyrie
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