Tag Archives: Olivia Williams

Film review | Now Is Good – Dakota Fanning’s dying Brit ticks off the items in her bucket list

Posted on 20 September 2012 by Jason Best

What could be more mawkish than a weepie about a dying girl? As tearjerkers go, no other storyline is better guaranteed to sell more boxes of tissues than popcorn. Now Is Good, based on Jenny Downham’s novel Before I Die, … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Ghost – The past catches up with ex-PM in Polanski thriller

Posted on 16 April 2010 by Jason Best

Tony Blair is so widely loathed nowadays that it’s easy to forget that he was… it sticks in the throat to say it… once actually rather popular. Like thousands of others, political journalist turned novelist Robert Harris used to be … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | An Education – Carey Mulligan’s Jenny learns lessons in life & love

Posted on 8 March 2010 by Jason Best

Rising star Carey Mulligan won a well-deserved Bafta and an Oscar nomination for her pitch-perfect performance as the teenage protagonist of sharp, smart, witty coming-of-age drama An Education. Scripted by Nick Hornby from the memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, the … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | An Education

Posted on 30 October 2009 by Jason Best

Journalist Lynn Barber, known as Demon Barber for her razor-witted interviews, caused quite a stir when the memoir of her teenage years in early-60s London appeared in Granta magazine in 2003 and revealed her seduction as a 16 year old … Continue reading →

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