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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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Film review | Anonymous – Where there’s a Will: Roland Emmerich’s dubious costume romp debunks the Bard

Like the notions that the US faked the Apollo moon missions or that terrorist planes couldn’t have toppled the World Trade Centre, the belief that William Shakespeare didn’t write the plays ascribed to him is one of those enduring conspiracy … Continue reading

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2012 Competition Winners

Our competition to win a Blu-ray copy of epic disaster movie 2012 is now closed. Thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes and well done to all the entrants who answered correctly that Roland Emmerich directed The … Continue reading

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Out on DVD | 2012 – Disaster movie maestro Roland Emmerich lets rip

Roland Emmerich has already threatened Earth with warlike extraterrestrials (Independence Day), a giant mutant lizard (Godzilla) and a global super storm (The Day After Tomorrow), but he raises the stakes even higher with 2012, letting rip with earthquakes, volcanoes and … Continue reading

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Win epic disaster movie 2012 on Blu-ray

This competition has now closed.    Cinema’s master of disaster Roland Emmerich delivers another end-of-the-world epic with 2012, a jaw-dropping disaster movie starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Cusack plays a struggling writer striving to get his family to … Continue reading

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

Paranormal Activity Things that go bump in the night… A couple are terrorised by a supernatural presence in this U.S. chiller. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash … Continue reading

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

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Long in the tooth… When vampire Edward turns his back on Bella, the heartbroken teenager finds comfort in her deeping friendship with werewolf Jacob.  If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | 2012 – It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel… thrilled

Cinema’s master of disaster is back! Roland Emmerich unleashed invading extraterrestrials in Independence Day, a giant mutant lizard in Godzilla and a new ice age in The Day After Tomorrow. With new movie 2012, however, he really lets rip. If … Continue reading

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Hollywood’s epic love affair with disaster reaches new highs… and lows

News Muse ponders over the latest movie gossip, giving you her unique take on all the showbiz shenanigans… Last week I was devastated to hear that Hugh Jackman has turned down hosting the Oscars next year. This week the producers … Continue reading

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