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The Dark Suspects – The Dark Knight gets tangled up with The Usual Suspects

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Who knew Keyser Söze was… The Joker. Thanks to Live for Films for alerting us to this inspired mash-up of The Dark Knight and The Usual Suspects.

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The Best view | Watchmen

Fans of graphic novels have been trying for years to convince me of the medium’s merits. Try as I might, though, I’m afraid I can’t shake off my prejudice that a comic book in the hands of a grown-up is … Continue reading

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Awards Season | The Oscars – Who will win? Who should win?

If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. So do you reckon Slumdog Millionaire is a shoo-in for this year’s … Continue reading

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Awards Season | And the RAFA goes to…

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has just gathered another clutch of awards, picking up a trio of  highly coveted RAFAs. What on earth are RAFAs, you ask. Well, not to be confused with Razzies, or, indeed, a Spanish tennis player, these … Continue reading

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The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience

With record-breaking numbers of bookings already being taken for The Dark Knight’s forthcoming run at the BFI IMAX cinema in London and it’s sister screen at the National Media Museum in Bradford, my son and I felt pretty privileged to … Continue reading

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Awards Season | Slumdog Millionaire & Benjamin Button lead the field at the Baftas

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are the frontrunners in the race for this year’s Bafta awards, whose nominations were announced today. Slumdog, Danny Boyle’s tale of a Mumbai street kid, and Benjamin Button, David Fincher’s eccentric … Continue reading

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Awards Season | Brits win big at 2009 Golden Globes

So, that tiny little star next to Anne Hathaway’s name on the Golden Globes website last week didn’t amount to anything after all. It was good old Kate, for years the bridesmaid at awards ceremonies (losing five times as a … Continue reading

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Awards Season | Movie Talk celebrates the good, the bad… and the just plain weird

Are you ready for the annual orgy of movie world prize-giving? This year’s awards season kicks off on Sunday 11th January with the Golden Globes – the baubles bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that often predict the way … 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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The Best View – Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Comic-book movies should be fun, right? This summer it’s been all too easy to forget. You can say what you like about the very dark Dark Knight or the less than incredible Incredible Hulk, but neither movie was exactly a … Continue reading

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