Tag Archives: Rachel McAdams

DVD review | Love Crime – It’s claws out for workplace rivals Ludivine Sagnier & Kristin Scott Thomas

Posted on 22 April 2013 by Jason Best

Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier are workplace rivals locked in a bristling battle of wits in cunning psychological thriller Love Crime (Crime d’amour), the last, posthumously released film from French director Alain Corneau (Tous les matins du monde), who … Continue reading →

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Film review | To the Wonder – Magic is missing from Affleck & Kurylenko’s love, and from Malick’s film

Posted on 25 February 2013 by Jason Best

You used to wait decades for a Terrence Malick film. Now two come along almost at once. Less than two years after his 2011 Palme d’Or winner Tree of Life, the notoriously reclusive director has produced a new work, To … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 11 February 2013 by Dean & Ellen

Looper Race against time… Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis star in this time-bending thriller about an assassin tasked with killing his future self. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to … Continue reading →

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DVD review | The Vow – Will Rachel McAdams & Channing Tatum remember to fall in love?

Posted on 2 July 2012 by Jason Best

Weepie veterans Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) and Channing Tatum (Dear John) team up for The Vow, a glossy romantic drama in which a newlywed wakes up from a coma following a car accident and can’t remember her husband – leaving … Continue reading →

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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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