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The Damned United Competition Winners

  Our competition to win a DVD of football biopic The Damned United starring Martin Sheen as Brian Clough is now closed. Thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our entrants who … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

The Reader Secrets and lies… In Fifties Germany, a teenager has an intimate relationship with an older woman, played by Kate Winslet. When he encounters her again many years later, she is being tried for war crimes and he makes … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon Competition Winners

Our competition to win a copy of the highly acclaimed Frost/Nixon on DVD is now closed. Thanks to Universal Pictures for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our entrants who answered correctly that Watergate is the name of … Continue reading

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Win a copy of Frost/Nixon on DVD

This competition has now closed.  Acting titans Michael Sheen and Frank Langella go head to head in the highly acclaimed Frost/Nixon, which comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 18th May.  Directed by Ron Howard, the film is the … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | Frost/Nixon

Michael Sheen pulls off another of his uncanny impersonations of famous people in this big-screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play about David Frost’s historic 1977 TV interview with disgraced former US president Richard Nixon. At the time, most people … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard has skilfully opened out Peter Morgan’s hit play based on the historic 1977 TV interview by British TV personality David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) and disgraced former US president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella), but he’s kept the … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – The Best view from the red carpet at the Frost/Nixon World Premiere

  If you are a ‘civilian’, to use Liz Hurley’s notorious description of the non-famous, then attending a movie premiere is a strange experience. At last night’s gala screening of Frost/Nixon, the London Film Festival’s opening film, I rolled along … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Stars in Leicester Square… and above Nelson’s Column

There are just seven days to go before this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival gets underway with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon, the screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play about the historic 1977 encounter between disgraced US president … Continue reading

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The Best view – Swing Vote

With the American presidential race getting scarier by the day, surely only the savage iconoclasm of Hunter S Thompson could do justice to the election’s madness and mendacity. Just imagine the ferocious spleen the author of

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