Author: Richard Gray
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Oscar Picks 2011
We look into the crystal ball and predict who will be making a speech and who will have to put on a good face for Loser Cam. We also pick our personal favourites for the night. The beauty of the Internet is that if we’re wrong, we can always change it later!
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The Way Back
Director Peter Weir makes his way back to the big screen after almost a decade away, bringing with him a fine cast and some epic cinematography in this tale of historic escape based on a true story. Starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Colin Farrell.
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Certified Copy
Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature outside of Iran continues his fascination with the conversations people have, especially in cars. Deliberately intellectual and often impenetrable, does this film reveal or obscure the nature of a relationship? Stars Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell.
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I Am Number Four
The latest grab for a tween franchise swaps the glowing loner from a fanging vampire to an probing alien.
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Conviction
How far would you go to prove the innocence of someone you love? Recounting the true story of the falsely convicted Kenneth Walters and his sister Betty, who goes to law school to win his freedom, does this film overcome movie-of-the-week syndrome? Starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell.
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Review: Unknown
The latest thriller from the Spanish-born American filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan) delivers some solid thrills. Yet are there any unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know? Starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
The Swedish saga of the girl with questionable hobbies comes to a suitably gripping conclusion in the final part of the “Millennium Trilogy”. Based on the works of Stieg Larsson, it is soon to be remade for US audiences by David Fincher. Directed by Daniel Alfredson, it stars Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist.
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Inside Job
The global financial crisis, as it has grown to be called, is said to be the worst financial crisis the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis cost over $20 trillion, along with the loss of millions of jobs and homes. Yet while that era immediately raised the public consciousness…
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Gnomeo & Juliet
The greatest love story every told was first performed in the late sixteenth century by the bard we all know and love as Billy Shakespeare. Quite prolific in his day, he’s become even more so with the advent of talking pictures, and what is arguably his most famous play has been adapted countless times in…
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X-Men: First Class and the comic book heroes of 2011
2011 has already been hotting up as the year of the superhero film, with some of the biggest names in the business set for a remake, reboot or sequel. Indeed, it’s only February, and we’ve already had one blockbuster comic book adaptation in the form of Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. As we saw from…
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