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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

The Three Musketeers One for all… The classic novel by Alexandre Dumas gets another reworking in this steampunk-influenced action adventure, which sees Matthew Macfayden, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson cast as the legendary French warriors. If you can see this, … Continue reading

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DVD review | We Need To Talk About Kevin

Unaccountably overlooked by the Oscars this year, Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We … Continue reading

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The Oscars 2012 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?

Who’s going to make the biggest noise at this year’s Oscars? Will silence prove golden for hot favourite The Artist? Will The Help clean up?  Or will The Descendants inherit all the glory? With the clock ticking down to Sunday … 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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The Best Films of 2011

Looking back over my favourite films of 2011, it’s clear that many of the directors who impressed me most this year have been doing precisely that – looking back. Some of them did so simply by setting their movies in … Continue reading

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

Paranormal Activity 3 Is there anybody there..? The supernatural horror franchise continues with this prequel, set 18 years prior to the events of the first two films. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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London Film Festival Awards… and some alternatives

The 55th London Film Festival reaches its climax tonight with the gala screening of Terence Davies’ screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea. Last night, however, was the festival’s occasion to hand out its gongs. Comedian Marcus Brigstocke … Continue reading

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Film review | We Need To Talk About Kevin – Bad seed or bad mom? Tilda’s Eva is left in agony

Tilda Swinton delivers one of the finest performances of her career as an American woman grappling with grief and guilt in the aftermath of a terrible crime committed by her teenage son in We Need To Talk About Kevin, director … 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

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 – Bowling for Columbine

On More 4 tonight at 10pm What makes people kill? It’s a question that can’t be answered easily. Over in the US, high school massacres seem to happen with almost sickening regularity while here in the UK, knife crimes are … Continue reading

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