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Win the Elizabethan thriller Anonymous on Blu-ray

© 2011 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Beverly Blvd LLC. All Rights Reserved. From 2012 director Roland Emmerich, Anonymous takes centre stage on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download on 5 March from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and to celebrate we’ve … Continue reading

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DVD review | Anonymous – Shakespeare’s labour’s lost as Emmerich & co make much ado about nothing

Disaster movie maestro Roland Emmerich debunks the authorship of William Shakespeare with this racy doublet-and-hose thriller, even if his overwrought conspiracy theory will strike most viewers as less credible than Godzilla or The Day After Tomorrow. For Emmerich and screenwriter … 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

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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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Angels & Demons Holy thriller… Tom Hanks takes the lead in this adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s … Continue reading

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The Best view | The Boat That Rocked – Sleazy hi-jinks on board Richard Curtis’s leaky comic vessel

The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis’s celebration of the world of 1960s pirate radio, is a hit and myth affair. For Curtis, the outlaw spirit of the pirates didn’t just shake up the nation’s airwaves. In his film’s version of … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Emma Thompson!

Emma Thompson turns 50 today and is looking bloody gorgeous! For younger audiences, she is likely to be associated with her role as divinations teacher Professor Sybil Trelawney in the Harry Potter films. (She actually shares her birthday with co-star … Continue reading

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