Tag Archives: Ralph Fiennes

DVD review | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II – The wizarding saga goes out with a bang

Posted on 3 December 2011 by Jason Best

After ten years and eight films, the Harry Potter saga reaches its conclusion – and it’s spellbinding. Picking up the action where the last film left off, The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 grips from the start. With the end in … Continue reading →

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55th BFI London Film Festival – 10 films we can’t wait to see & tips on how to get tickets for the rest

Posted on 21 September 2011 by Jason Best

This year’s BFI London Film Festival kicks off in three weeks’ time and, as usual, there’s a staggering lineup of films and special events to choose from, including over 200 features and 110 shorts, 13 world premieres, 18 international premieres … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings: I should find Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang a real turn off, but I’ve found 8 things to like

Posted on 28 February 2011 by Beth Williams

Spoilt and unruly kids screaming in their high pitched little voices is my idea of hell. So a film filled with them shouldn’t have any appeal whatsover, but strangely this one does. Here’s why: 1. Nanny McPhee & the Big … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Cemetery Junction – Was 1973 Reading a dead end for Ricky Gervais?

Posted on 14 April 2010 by Jason Best

Ricky Gervais’s first feature film on home soil sees him returning to the Reading suburbs of his youth. Perhaps nostalgia has rubbed off some of his edge for with Cemetery Junction he’s come up with a surprisingly conservative coming-of-age comedy … Continue reading →

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News Hound | Corey Haim dead at 38

Posted on 10 March 2010 by Adele Craciun

 The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38 from an alleged drugs overdose. Jude Law claims that Sherlock Holmes 2 is happening sometime later this year. Scriptwriting couple Kieran and Michele Mulroney (Paper Man) were … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Duchess – and wigs

Posted on 3 October 2009 by Beth Williams

At a recent fancy dress party I sported a long blonde wig (I’m usually a brunette with a shortish do). After a few hours I really got in touch with my inner blonde, and so did everyone else. So, when … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | The Reader – Oscar-winning Kate Winslet plays a woman with a dark past

Posted on 25 May 2009 by Jason Best

Kate Winslet won her long-awaited Oscar for her role in The Reader, a compelling story of love and shame, guilt and reconciliation set in the shadow of the Holocaust. She plays tram conductor Hannah, a woman with a dark past … Continue reading →

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The Best View | The Duchess – Keira shakes off flat-pack image but her film is hobbled by history

Posted on 16 March 2009 by Jason Best

Keira Knightley unfailingly comes in for a drubbing from some quarters whatever she does, but she earned some of the best reviews of her career for her starring role in The Duchess, a sumptuous historical drama based on Amanda Foreman’s … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Reader

Posted on 2 January 2009 by Jason Best

Kate Winslet is on top form in The Reader, a compelling story of love and shame, guilt and reconciliation set in the shadow of the Holocaust. She plays tram conductor Hannah, a woman with a dark past who has a … Continue reading →

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The Best View – The Duchess

Posted on 5 September 2008 by Jason Best

Why does Keira Knightley arouse such loathing? Type the words ‘I hate Keira Knightley’ into Google and blog after blog pops up to denounce her for being too skinny, for sounding too posh, for pouting too much, for having funny … Continue reading →

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