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At the Cinema | An Education
Journalist Lynn Barber, known as Demon Barber for her razor-witted interviews, caused quite a stir when the memoir of her teenage years in early-60s London appeared in Granta magazine in 2003 and...
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Out on DVD | An Education – Carey Mulligan’s Jenny learns lessons in life & love
Rising star Carey Mulligan won a well-deserved Bafta and an Oscar nomination for her pitch-perfect performance as the teenage protagonist of sharp, smart, witty coming-of-age drama An Education....
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Film review | Johnny English Reborn – More hit-and-miss spy jinks with...
Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling secret agent is back in spy comedy sequel Johnny English Reborn, but the espionage game has changed while he’s been away, nursing his wounded pride in Tibetan exile after...
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Film review | Wrath of the Titans – Clashing swords and accents in an...
Back in action as strapping demigod Perseus in Wrath of the Titans, the inevitable sequel to 2010’s inane Clash of the Titans remake, Sam Worthington again struggles to convince us that he’s a bona...
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Film review | The World’s End – Friends to the bitter end: Pegg, Frost & co...
Director Edgar Wright re-teams with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the last delicious lick of their self-described Cornetto trilogy (each film a different flavour), following up goofy genre...
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Hector and the Search for Happiness | Film review – Pegg’s smug hero sets off...
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. His spirit sapped by a routine life, Simon Pegg’s mopy...
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What We Did on Our Holiday | Film review – Scene-stealing kids upstage...
Engaging family comedy What We Did on Our Holiday sees the creators of Outnumbered repeating the BBC sitcom’s winning mix of beleaguered parents, cute scene-stealing kids and spot-on observational...
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Gone Girl | Film review – Ruthless dissection of a marriage delivers...
Director David Fincher and screenwriter Gillian Flynn, adapting her own bestselling page-turner of a novel, conduct a ruthless dissection of a modern marriage in Gone Girl, an enjoyably slippery...
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Gone Girl | DVD review – Flynn & Fincher’s enjoyably slippery suspense...
A warring married couple’s dark secrets spill forth in this enjoyably slippery suspense thriller based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling page-turner of a novel, Gone Girl. Rosamund Pike’s golden girl Amy...
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The Oscars 2015 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?
The final ballots have been cast and the bean counters at PriceWaterhouseCoopers are currently totting up the votes. So with the clock ticking down to Sunday night’s ceremony, to be hosted amid the...
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