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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...
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Thor – Kenneth Branagh turns from Shakespeare to Marvel for a hero with real...
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...
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Film review | War Horse – Spielberg gets caught in no man’s land between...
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...
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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...
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DVD review | The Deep Blue Sea – Rachel Weisz plunges into Terence Rattigan’s...
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...
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Film review | Avengers Assemble – Joss Whedon adds Heh Heh Heh to Wham Blam...
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....
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Film review | Thor: The Dark World – Hemsworth’s hero heaves his hammer again...
Marvel Comics’ brawny Norse deity Thor returns for more intergalactic brawling in his second solo adventure, Thor: The Dark World, which finds Chris Hemsworth following up his recent turn as James...
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Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy | Film review – Shiver me timbers! Peter...
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy, the fifth instalment in Disney’s spin-off series for Peter Pan’s frisky fairy sidekick Tinker Bell, is a lively swashbuckling affair that pits Tink and her Pixie...
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Thor: The Dark World | Film review – Hemsworth’s brawny hero returns for more...
Chris Hemsworth’s hammer-heaving Marvel Comics hero returns for more intergalactic brawling in his second solo adventure, whizzing back and forth between the realm of the gods and various touristy...
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Only Lovers Left Alive | Film review – Tom & Tilda’s undead lovers ooze...
Forget Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The long-lived undead lovers played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton in cult director Jim Jarmusch’s highly unconventional vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive...
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Avengers: Age of Ultron | Film review – Cool quips and fleeting tenderness...
Back to hold the ring for the second joint effort by the Marvel Comics Avengers, Joss Whedon does the job with typical panache in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but with so many characters jostling for...
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