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Fired up: Jim Sturgess

Fifty Dead Men Walking (15, 117 mins)

Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers, Rose McGowan
Comments: 2

Inside Reviews

Dreamboats: Matthew Perry and Zac Efron play older and younger versions of the same person in 17 again

17 Again (12A, 101 mins) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 10 April 2009

Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sterling Knight, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin
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Watchmen (18) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 6 March 2009

Group superhero movies. A good thing? I could take or leave X-Men, and would go some way to avoid another Fantastic Four.
Comments: 3

The Wire: the Complete Series 
Virtually every TV critic in the country has described it as the greatest TV show ever made, and combined with the fact that it was shown here on the relatively obscure FX channel, it's hardly surprising that The Wire has really taken off on DVD. Over five series, the show takes you through the inner workings of Baltimore, and its wide scope ranges from the detectives in the homicide department to the drug dealers on the corners. If you haven't yet succumbed to the hype then do so - you are in for a treat. 
How much: £124.99

The 50 Best TV Boxsets

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

From Baltimore to Brideshead, from John Pilger to Richard Pryor, our TV addicts pick the sets that will keep you glued to the sofa
Comments: 5

Barry puts music fans in the picture

Monday, 16 February 2009

Barry Norman, the film critic, author and broadcaster, achieved a rare double at the Ulster Orchestra St Valentine’s concert of film music in the Waterfront Hall on Saturday, which was sponsored by First Trust Bank.
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Whoops! Barry makes a Hitchcock-up

Monday, 16 February 2009

It was the kind of puzzling situation old master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock would have loved.
Comment: 1

Notorious life makes for inglorious biopic

Friday, 13 February 2009

Notorious (15, 123 mins) Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie
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The atmosphere of Frost/Nixon is so heavy with self-importance that you'd be forgiven for thinking that, in it, the very fate of Western politics hangs in the balance

Frost/Nixon (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

The atmosphere of Frost/Nixon is so heavy with self-importance that you'd be forgiven for thinking that, in it, the very fate of Western politics hangs in the balance.
Comments: 3

Battered and bruised: Rourke is put through his paces

The Wrestler (15, 109 mins) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 16 January 2009

Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Judah Friedlander
Comments: 2

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (18) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 2 January 2009

First released in 1974, this marks the beginning of Sam Peckinpah's late slide into nihilism.
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Gardens in Autumn (PG) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 2 January 2009

Languid drollery is the keynote of Otar Iosseliani's films, and this eccentric, walking-pace study of midlife change proves highly characteristic.
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The Reader (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 2 January 2009

Can a single performance redeem a whole movie? Heaven knows Kate Winslet does her damnedest to wrestle with the contradictions of The Reader, adapted from the novel by Bernhard Schlink, and it would be no great injustice if she carried off an award for it.
Comments: 4

Benicio Del Toro stars as Che Guevara in a two-part epic based on the life of the freedom fighter

Che (Part One) - (15, 126 mins)

Friday, 2 January 2009

Benicio Del Toro, Julia Ormond, Pablo Guevara, Demian Bichir, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente
Comment: 1

Meet Me In St Louis (U, 113 mins)

Friday, 19 December 2008

Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
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Queen's Film Theatre - Lemon Tree (PG, 106 mins)

Friday, 12 December 2008

Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Live 
In one of his final performances as host of the Radio 4 game show, Humphrey Lyttelton is joined by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Jeremy Hardy, for the usual oddball whimsy. Filmed over two legs of their 2007 tour, it loses none of its charm in front of the cameras.
Price: £12.99

The Ten Best Comedy DVDs

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Laugh it up with this selection of hilarious comedy DVDs.
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Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer

Review: 24: Redemption, Sky One - Jack's back with a worthy villain in Voight (Rated 4/ 5 )

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Whoops! They got that wrong. I'm talking about "US President-Elect, Allison Taylor, America's first female head of state", according to 24: Redemption, last night's long-awaited television movie version of 24 (a couple of hectic hours from one afternoon, instead of the whole day – 2 would have been a more accurate title).
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Waltz With Bashir (18) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 21 November 2008

Few film critics are war veterans – I count it a personal blessing – but we are nearly all war movie veterans, so many of them do we sit through.
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Blindness (18) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 21 November 2008

Dystopian Breakdown, Part I. An epidemic of blindness grips a city population, and its first victims are herded into a ramshackle facility under guard.
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Leonardo DiCaprio stars alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies

Body of Lies (15) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 21 November 2008

Ridley Scott's latest is a very different kind of war movie. Where Waltz With Bashir is honourably self-questioning, Body of Lies is dimly self-important.
Comment: 1

The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Before a school exam, do you remember how teachers would impress on you the importance of answering the specific question that was set?
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