AN EDUCATION **** (12A) Director: Lone Scherfig Running time: 95 minutes THE problem with coming-of-age movies is that the hero is too often a passive receptor and, despite the hip oldies on the soundtrack, the result says nothing that dozens of previous coming-of-age movies haven’t already. An Education is a glorious exception. Based on journalist [...]
November 5, 2009 | Posted in
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Unlike most stars who originally found fame through their charm and good looks, George Clooney contemplates his graying hair and onset of middle-age with ease. “I’m old,” the 48-year-old actor said with a laugh. “It’s an interesting thing to watch yourself grow older on screen. “I was watching Up In The Air and I thought, [...]
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In an alternate reality, lying — even the concept of a lie — does not even exist. Everyone — from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street — speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops [...]
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Genre: Musical Film running length: 107 min UK release date: 25/9/2009 Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen Country: United States Language: English Distributor: Entertainment Film Distributor Who´s in it? Asher Book, Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono What´s the plot? A reworking of the Oscar®-winning hit film, ‘Fame’ follows the fortunes of a group of students at the New [...]
September 22, 2009 | Posted in
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Sandra Bullock plays crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowiz who falls hard for cameraman Steve, played by Bradley Cooper. In the film, after a 2-minute date turned awkward, Mary is led to believe that Steve likes her and that he wants her to follow him as he captures the news on the road. The lovable Mary [...]
September 7, 2009 | Posted in
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3D horror The Final Destination is top of the North American box office for a second week, holding off competition from romantic comedy All About Steve. The thriller, the fourth movie in the Final Destination franchise, took $12.4m (£7.6m), early figures show. All About Steve, starring Sandra Bullock as a kooky crossword puzzle compiler in [...]
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They call it “the illusion of depth”, a conjuring trick on the visual cortex, and it works like this. You take two cameras and shoot with them side-by-side. Later, when the results are projected, the viewer interprets these dual images as a single three-dimensional image. We see (or believe we see) a foreground, a background [...]
August 20, 2009 | Posted in
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Plot: Four heavily armed men, led by a man who calls himself “Ryder” (John Travolta), board a New York City subway 6 train and proceed to take control of the train. Meanwhile, MTA dispatcher Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is assigned to the Control Center of rail, due to an ongoing investigation that he took a [...]
July 26, 2009 | Posted in
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest shock-fest Bruno will be screened for the Royal Family at Balmoral, it has been reported. The film, which stars Sacha as a gay Austrian fashion reporter, has scandalised critics and audiences alike. with its “ott” humour. But a source at Universal Studios told The Sun that Buckingham Palace has requested a [...]
July 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Tarantino seems to have regained his eye for dramatic action, his ear for quirky dialogue and a great deal of his wit. Unfortunately, self-indulgence is also in evidence. The Basterds of the title are a psychological-warfare unit of American Jewish soldiers killing Nazis as brutally as possible in occupied France. Brad Pitt channels Lee Marvin [...]
July 24, 2009 | Posted in
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