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Film review | To Rome With Love – Woody Allen dashes off a cinematic postcard from the Eternal City

Posted on 13 September 2012 by Jason Best

Woody Allen has been dispatching cinematic postcards from European cities for much of the past decade and following missives from London, Barcelona and Paris, he’s now alighted in the Italian capital for To Rome with Love. It’s another multi-stranded comedy … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 22 December 2010 by Jason Best

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

Posted on 14 April 2010 by admin

Clash of the Titans Greek tragedy… This big-budget remake of the 1981 fantasy classic stars Avatar’s Sam Worthington as Perseus, the demi-god charged with rescuing Argos (the Greek city, not the catalogue-based retail chain) from vengeful Hades and the monstrous … Continue reading →

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Whip It! Drew Barrymore gets her directorial debut skates on and rolls out the feelgood factor

Posted on 7 April 2010 by Adele Craciun

I’ve had my eye on Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut project for some time, and now that comedy drama Whip It is finally hitting the big screens in the UK, we’re all in for a real treat! We all know Drew … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Jennifer’s Body – Megan Fox’s bitchy teen queen gets really nasty in high-school horror comedy

Posted on 5 November 2009 by Jason Best

Diablo Cody announced herself as one of Hollywood’s smartest, sassiest new voices with her Oscar-winning script for Juno, but horror comedy Jennifer’s Body, her follow-up to that dazzling debut, fails to strike the same sparks. The new film again has … Continue reading →

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News Muse – Roller Girls, Trannies and Camp Rock

Posted on 10 July 2009 by Adele Craciun

Last month I went to my first ever roller derby. It’s not a particularly mainsteam sport here in the UK, so don’t worry if you don’t know what it is – learn about it here and look at some pics … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Juno

Posted on 3 April 2009 by Beth Williams

When smart and sassy 16-year-old Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) discovers she is pregnant, she decides to find the perfect parents to adopt her unborn baby. Well-to-do suburban couple Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) seem ideal, but … Continue reading →

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The Best view – Smart People & The Graduate on DVD

Posted on 15 September 2008 by Jason Best

When you come across a film with the title Smart People, you know the phrase must be double edged; it just has to be an ironic cue for a tale about folk with stratospherically high IQs but with emotional intelligence … Continue reading →

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