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

Posted on 29 February 2012 by Dean & Ellen

The Woman In Black Spooked… Things go bump in the night for Daniel Radcliffe in this horror-thriller about an Edwardian solicitor who travels to a remote village where the locals are terrorised by an unknown entity. The Best Exotic Marigold … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 23 February 2012 by Dean & Ellen

The Woman In Black Spooked… Things go bump in the night for Daniel Radcliffe in this horror-thriller about an Edwardian solicitor who travels to a remote village where the locals are terrorised by an unknown entity. If you can see … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2 February 2012 by Jason Best

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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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 11 March 2010 by admin

The Hurt Locker Battle station… Set in Iraq, this Academy Award-winning action thriller follows an elite US Army bomb squad as they struggle to control their wild new leader. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Mean Girls and that bus accident scene

Posted on 6 January 2010 by Beth Williams

  Witty, bitchy, and wonderfully well-observed, this high school movie, which is one of my faves, is apparently also one of singer/songwriter/movie star Mariah Carey’s favourite films. I learned this fascinating fact the other day while thumbing through the many … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Sherlock Holmes – Robert Downey Jr drops the deerstalker and puts up his fists in the great detective’s latest caper

Posted on 22 December 2009 by Jason Best

Forget the deerstalker. Forget the calabash pipe. Forget the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson”. Forget, indeed, most of the props, quotes and attributes that have accrued to Conan Doyle’s legendary consulting detective. Robert Downey Jr’s dashing, devil-may-care Sherlock Holmes, unexpectedly … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | State of Play

Posted on 21 September 2009 by Jason Best

Gripping political thriller State of Play marked a confident Hollywood debut for Oscar-winning British documentary maker turned feature-film director Kevin Macdonald. Currently shooting a film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic children’s novel The Eagle of the Ninth, Macdonald did a good … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2 September 2009 by admin

The Final Destination End is nigh… This fourth instalment of the horror movie franchise follows a group of friends who cheat death by escaping a race track disaster. But Death soon sets out to collect those who evaded their end! … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 26 August 2009 by admin

Inglourious Basterds Bloody battle… Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge movie follows a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers as they attempt to spread fear through the Third Reich. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 20 August 2009 by admin

The Time Traveler’s Wife Endless love… Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams star in this sci-fi romance about a man with a genetic condition that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. If you … Continue reading →

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