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Name That Chest: Cheers, happy birthday!
And yes, you guessed it, a Martini – shaken not stirred – would be the perfect drink to toast this actor’s big day today. So, who was the owner of last week’s frilly frontage? The truth is quite...
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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Teaser: Why was Planet of the Apes an important movie...
Despite British actress Helena Bonham Carter‘s unsettlingly believable simian appearance in his 2001 Planet of the Apes remake, director Tim Burton fell in love with her. After the movie wrapped the...
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Win Johnny Depp comedy Dark Shadows on DVD!
Tim Burton’s campy horror comedy DARK SHADOWS is released on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 15 October. Johnny Depp plays a dandyish vampire who emerges from two centuries of entombment to find himself in...
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56th BFI London Film Festival comes to a glittering (& record-breaking) close
The BFI London Film Festival came to a glittering close last night with a star-studded line-up on the red carpet and on stage at the Odeon Leicester Square for the European premiere of Great...
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Name That Chest: Birthday and Bah!
Today’s mystery chest has a seasonal theme since we’ve now entered the month to be merry. I’m sure it’s not difficult to name. This well known character crops up in tonnes of films and shows at this...
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Film review | Les Misérables – Bowled over by the barnstorming gusto of...
After 28 years, Les Misérables, the world’s longest-running stage musical, finally reaches the screen – and it’s a triumph. Even if you’re no fan of the show and think the lyrics doggerel and the...
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Thought for Mother’s Day from Howards End
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” Howards End (1992) Share this thought for the day on our Movie Talk Facebook page or Movie Talk Twitter...
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Film review | Les Misérables – Bowled over by the barnstorming gusto of...
Director Tom Hooper and a full-throated cast led by Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo’s ex-convict hero Jean Valjean bring the world’s longest-running stage musical, Les Misérables, to the screen with...
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Film review – Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s...
Based on Reif Larsen’s 2009 bestseller, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet combines the whimsical storytelling pleasures of his 2001 hit Amélie with the most gorgeously inventive...
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Cinderella | Film review – Lily James’s fairytale heroine comes up sparkling...
Hollywood filmmakers are no slouches these days when it comes to subverting or sending-up fairy-tale conventions. But Kenneth Branagh does something much more daring. He plays things straight. There’s...
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