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Film review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (15)

5:16pm Friday 12th March 2010

Scandinavian director Neils Arden Oplev introduces a memorably unconventional heroine in his superb adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson.

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Film review: Green Zone (15)

5:19pm Friday 12th March 2010

Award-winning British filmmaker Paul Greengrass and actor Matt Damon, the driving forces behind The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, turn their attention to Iraq in this riveting thriller.

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Film review: Shutter Island (15)

5:14pm Friday 12th March 2010

THE lunatics are taking over the asylum, or that’s what Martin Scorsese’s impeccably crafted psychological thriller would have us believe.

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In Christian Alvart’s ludicrous, supernatural yarn, Renee Zellweger takes the lead as social worker Emily, who takes in 10-year-old Lillith (Jodelle Ferland) after saving her from being killed by her parents.

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Film review: Crazy Heart (15)

12:46pm Friday 5th March 2010

JEFF Bridges seems destined, undeservedly, to win the Academy Award as Best Actor In A Leading Role for his turn as a washed up country and western singer, who lives by the bottle.

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Film review: Alice In Wonderland (PG)

5:41pm Thursday 4th March 2010

Combining a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

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Film review: From Paris With Love (15)

4:03pm Friday 26th February 2010

PARIS: The city of romantic overtures, fine cuisine, sartorial elegance and crunching car chases along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.

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Film review: Extraordinary Measures (PG)

4:18pm Friday 26th February 2010

Extraordinary Measures is a well-intentioned real-life battle against adversity, that would surely have been consigned to the small screen were it not for a starry, A-list cast, including an executive producer’s role for Harrison Ford.

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Film review: Leap Year (PG)

4:00pm Friday 26th February 2010

THE luck of the Irish runs out for one hopeless romantic in Anand Tucker’s implausible comedy, so it does, to be sure, to be sure.

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Film review: Everybody’s Fine (12A)

5:48pm Thursday 25th February 2010

If Hollywood has taught us anything over the decades, it’s that resentment, regret and anguish simmer beneath the surface of almost every seemingly perfect family.

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Film review: Solomon Kane (15)

6:31pm Friday 19th February 2010

Michael J Bassett writes and directs this historical action adventure based on the character created by Robert E Howard.

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Film review: The Last Station (15)

6:30pm Friday 19th February 2010

It’s easy to appreciate creative genius, but it must be hell to live with it.

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Film review: The Lovely Bones (12A)

6:28pm Friday 19th February 2010

There is life after death in Peter Jackson’s visually stunning interpretation of the bestseller by Alice Sebold, which proves to be one adaptation too far for the Oscar-winning director of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and King Kong.

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Julianne Moore talks Chloe

4:43pm Wednesday 17th February 2010

Four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore has one of the richest and most varied CVs in Hollywood.

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Film review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (PG)

4:54pm Friday 12th February 2010

YOU wait years for an all-action adventure inspired by Greek mythology, and then two come along at virtually the same time.

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Film review: Valentine's Day (12A)

4:58pm Friday 12th February 2010

Why should we all feel compelled to bare our souls on February 14, when any other day of the year would do just as well and isn’t nearly as expensive?

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Film review: A Single Man (12A)

4:59pm Friday 12th February 2010

Oscar-nominated Colin Firth stars in Tom Ford’s first cinematic outing, which is a haunting drama about a professor who secretly says farewell to the people he loves as he contemplates suicide after the death of his lover.

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Film review: The Wolfman (15)

6:51pm Thursday 11th February 2010

Some of cinema’s most iconic creatures, including Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and The Mummy, hark back to the golden age of Universal Studios in the 1930s and 1940s, when Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains stalked the big screen with malicious intent.

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Film review: The Princess And The Frog (U)

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

In an extraordinary career, producer Walt Disney redefined the boundaries of hand-drawn animation.

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Film review: Astro Boy (PG)

5:39pm Friday 5th February 2010

The iconic figure of Astro Boy takes flight in a new computer-animated adventure directed by David Bowers, with a storyline that puts a futuristic spin on the classic tale of Pinocchio.

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Film review: Invictus (12A)

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

ON February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid.

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Film review: Edge Of Darkness (15)

4:42pm Friday 29th January 2010

AWARD-WINNING, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood.

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Film review: Adoration (15)

4:48pm Friday 29th January 2010

Toronto high school student Simon is still haunted by the death of his parents in a car accident many years ago and the young man struggles to understand why the universe chose to take them from him.

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Film review: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire (15)

4:45pm Friday 29th January 2010

AN average of 60 children are sexually abused in Britain every single day.

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Film review: Ninja Assassin (18)

6:05pm Friday 22nd January 2010

The title of James McTeigue’s martial arts action adventure succinctly sums up the vicarious thrills of this chopsocky nonsense.

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Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

6:08pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the emotionally devastating memoir of Simon Carr.

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Film review: Brothers (15)

3:55pm Thursday 21st January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama, Brodre, love is war as two siblings — polar opposites — are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.