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Film review | Rust and Bone – Tough love: Marion Cotillard & Matthias Schoenaerts find romance

The plot of Rust and Bone is pure melodrama: a trainer of killer whales loses her legs in an accident and then begins a relationship with a bare-knuckle-boxing single father. What could be more luridly contrived? Yet French director Jacques … Continue reading

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

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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Oscars! Schmoscars! Triumph, travesty and throwbacks galore

Silence was golden again at the Oscars this year, with The Artist, already hotly tipped, tap-dancing off with the three big awards of the night: Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. Dujardin made … Continue reading

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Countdown to the Oscars – Best Director and Best Picture Nominees

Let Movie Talk take you by the arm and lead you down the red carpet, familiarising you with the nominees along the way… Best Director Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist If you can see this, then you might need a … Continue reading

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The Oscars 2012 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?

Who’s going to make the biggest noise at this year’s Oscars? Will silence prove golden for hot favourite The Artist? Will The Help clean up?  Or will The Descendants inherit all the glory? With the clock ticking down to Sunday … Continue reading

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DVD review | Midnight in Paris – A champagne comedy to toast Woody’s return to form

Woody Allen seemed to have lost his fizz as a filmmaker of late – and then he uncorked the sparkling Midnight in Paris, a comic fantasy with all the effervescence of vintage champagne. He has a new leading man this … Continue reading

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Oscars 2012 – Nominations announced!

The 2012 Oscars nominations have just been announced and, as usual, following the Golden Globes and plenty of speculation, there aren’t that many surprises. Here are the main category nominees: Best Picture The Artist War Horse The Descendants Midnight in … Continue reading

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

Johnny English Reborn Secret service… Rowan Atkinson’s hapless spy gets a second big screen outing in this action comedy, which sees the titular secret agent tasked with preventing the assassination of the Chinese premier. The Lion King Circle of life… … Continue reading

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

Johnny English Reborn Secret service… Rowan Atkinson’s hapless spy gets a second big screen outing in this action comedy, which sees the titular secret agent tasked with preventing the assassination of the Chinese premier. If you can see this, then … Continue reading

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