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Out on DVD | Fantastic Mr Fox – Wes Anderson, too foxy for Roald Dahl’s tale

Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox is stuffed full of the clever, quirky verbal and visual details and gags one has come to expect from the director of Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and … Continue reading

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

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Long in the tooth… When vampire Edward turns his back on Bella, the heartbroken teenager finds comfort in her deepening friendship with werewolf Jacob. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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

2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading

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

A Christmas Carol Christmas spirits… Jim Carrey voices Ebenezer Scrooge, and several other characters, in this animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic morality tale about an old miser. Bah! Humbug! If you can see this, then you might need a … Continue reading

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

Up High flyers… A grumpy OAP and a lively eight-year-old boy become unlikely adventurers in this uplifting Disney Pixar animation 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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BFI 53rd London Film Festival | Comic turn from Boris shines on Bright Star gala

Mayor of London Boris Johnson provided a waggish warm-up act for the London Film Festival’s Centrepiece Gala screening of Bright Star last night. After confirming his £5 million backing for the BFI’s new film centre, he declared his relief that … Continue reading

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BFI 53rd London Film Festival – Dapper George Clooney and Fantastic Mr Fox

A dapper George Clooney was at the forefront of the sizeable Hollywood contingent trooping down the red carpet in Leicester Square last night for the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s animated screen version of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic Fantastic Mr … Continue reading

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BFI 53rd London Film Festival – Opening night… and the pick of the rest

The Times BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the world premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson’s screen version of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s story. Hollywood royalty will be turning out in force at the gala screening in Leicester … Continue reading

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53rd Times BFI London Film Festival – First look at this year’s lineup

I’m just back from the press launch of this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival and I’m still reeling from the dizzying lineup of films. Festival director Sandra Hebron unveiled the programme this morning, revealing the astonishingly diverse selection of … Continue reading

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News Pup | 30 July 2009

With our regular News Hound barking up a different tree this week, one of her News Pups is out and about and sniffing out all the star stories. First up we have The Apparently Multi-Talented Mr Jude Law who’s going … Continue reading

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