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Reviews
Fantastic Mr Fox misses Roald Dahl menace (Rated 3/ 5 )
More star wattage is what the London Film Festival has been promising us.
Given the added emphasis on red carpet events, opening the LFF with an
animated feature was clearly a risk.
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Inside Reviews
Movie heaven: Anthony Quinn's 100 Best Films
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Fed up with formulaic ‘blockbusters’ and overhyped cinematic turkeys? Movie
critic Anthony Quinn selects 100 timeless movie classics that never
disappoint.
Comments: 3
Best of the new films
Friday, 4 September 2009
Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay
at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch
this weekend.
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Review: Duchess on the Estate, ITV1, X Factor, ITV1
Monday, 24 August 2009
Why does Sarah, Duchess of York, bother? She bothers because "as long as
she can help people get a voice out" (sic), she will never stop "putting
her head above the parapet".
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Amy Jenkins: Tarantino’s outrageous films are all dogs
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s new film is out now. By all accounts
it's awful — not just awful, actually, but tedious, gratuitously violent,
over-long and the plot, they say, is |downright daft.
Comments: 7
Review: Inglourious Basterds - Tarantino bounces back to gloriously violent form (Rated 4/ 5 )
Thursday, 20 August 2009
"I think this might be my masterpiece," Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt)
declares after carving a swastika on a Nazi's forehead toward the end of
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The film might not be Tarantino's
masterpiece but it is his most entertaining and exhilarating effort since
Pulp Fiction.
Comments: 2
Imagine That (PG)
Friday, 14 August 2009
Eddie Murphy plays a stockbroker distracted from making his mint by a
seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi) who won't give up her security
blanket (she lets out a piercing scream every time it's taken from her
grasp).
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Bandslam (PG) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 14 August 2009
Remember the kind of films Cameron Crowe used to make, and the kind John
Cusack used to star in?
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Aliens in the Attic (PG) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 14 August 2009
A pleasant, inconsequential movie about resourceful kids fighting off an alien
invasion in suburban Michigan.
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The Time Traveler's Wife (12A) (Rated 1/ 5 )
Friday, 14 August 2009
Those who enjoyed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may like to turn next to
The Time Traveler's Wife.
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Antichrist: Most provocative film of the century to open in Northern Ireland
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Antichrist, the controversial new film from Danish director Lars Von Trier,
has divided critics across the world due to its graphic violence and sexual
scenes. With the film about to hit the big screen in Belfast this weekend,
Matthew McCreary went along to a screening to find out what all the fuss is
about
Comments: 3
Fifty Dead Men Walking (15, 117 mins)
Friday, 10 April 2009
Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers, Rose McGowan
Comments: 3
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 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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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
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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