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The Best view | Frozen River – Melissa Leo keeps it real in gripping...
Melissa Leo. Who? No idea? I thought as much. If, though, the name of this 48-year-old American actress does ring a faint bell it’s probably because she was the odd one out among this year’s Oscar...
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The Fighter – Knockout performances make David O Russell’s boxing drama an...
Do true stories make the best boxing movies? In the red corner, Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull, based on the life of middleweight champ Jake La Motta, comes out swinging in the cause of...
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The Oscars 2011 – Who will win? Who should win?
Who’s going to win big at this year’s Oscars? Will The King’s Speech be getting all the applause? Or will The Social Network be the Academy’s friend? With the clock ticking down to Sunday night’s...
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Oscars 2011 – Movie Talk’s live report on the 83rd Academy Awards
Here we are, Movie Talk’s Jason & Adele, ready to begin our live report on the Oscars. Sadly we’re not at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood Boulevard but in an office in Southwark. By day, Movie Talk...
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Conviction – Hilary Swank’s real-life legal crusader goes from bar to bar...
Jaw set resolutely forward but upper lip aquiver with emotion, Hilary Swank plays a remarkable crusader for justice in Conviction, a stirring true-story drama based on one of the US legal system’s all...
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DVD Review | The Fighter
The latest boxing movie to slug it out in the cinematic ring, The Fighter is a based-on-truth tale of a scrappy underdog who triumphs against the odds. Played by Mark Wahlberg, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward is a...
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DVD review | Red State – Slacker comedy supremo Kevin Smith takes aim at...
Taking equal opportunity swipes at Christian fundamentalist bigots and the US government, Kevin Smith’s subversively satirical movie keeps its audience continually off balance. Starting off in teen...
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Film review | Olympus Has Fallen – Beefy Butler saves the day when the White...
Heavily armed terrorists seize control of a landmark building and only a lone maverick lawman can save the day. No, it’s not the Nakatomi Tower and Bruce Willis’s NYPD cop John McClane in Die Hard but...
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Film review | White House Down – Tatum & Foxx take on the terrorists with...
The US president’s home is under attack, again. Less than six months after dastardly North Korean commandos stormed Washington in Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down finds another bunch of heavily...
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