Tag Archives: Tom Hiddleston

Film review | Avengers Assemble – Joss Whedon adds Heh Heh Heh to Wham Blam Splat!

Geeky fanboys will be in heaven. After their recent solo outings, Marvel comic-book heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America finally get to do cool things as a team in Avengers Assemble. Pulled together by Samuel L Jackson’s … Continue reading

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DVD review | The Deep Blue Sea – Rachel Weisz plunges into Terence Rattigan’s passion play

Rachel Weisz is heartbreakingly good as the tormented heroine at the heart of Terence Davies’ sensitive adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, about a woman caught between dull respectability and dangerous passion. Weisz’s Hester Collyer has … Continue reading

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Who will win this year’s BAFTAs?

Movie Talk is putting its reputation on the line and making a few brilliantly inspired predictions about who is going to be walking out of the British Academy Film Awards on  Sunday night with a great big smile on their … Continue reading

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Film review | War Horse – Spielberg gets caught in no man’s land between moving and mawkish

A huge success as a book and an even bigger hit on stage, Michael Morpurgo’s heart-rending First World War tale of a Devon farm boy and his beloved horse reaches the screen with no less a whip-hand than Steven Spielberg … Continue reading

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Thor – Kenneth Branagh turns from Shakespeare to Marvel for a hero with real clout

Forget Hamlet and Henry V, Kenneth Branagh puts Shakespeare behind him and gives us a hero with real clout – Marvel Comics‘ hammer-heaving Norse deity Thor. Taking the role of the brawny thunder god is former Home and Away hunk … Continue reading

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The Best view | Unrelated

Unlike the French, who turn out movies about the haute bourgeoisie all the time, British filmmakers usually fight shy of portraying upper middle-class characters on screen. Not writer-director Joanna Hogg, though. With her feature film debut, Unrelated, she has come … Continue reading

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