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  • 2012 Italian Film festival

    2012 Italian Film festival

    the media preview of the 2012 Italian Film festival on Wednesday 15th August, 6:00pm at Rialto Cinemas, Newmarket. The launch will feature a screening of ‘Basilicata Coast to Coast’

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  • Waltzing Margot

    Waltzing Margot

    My highlight in Michelle Milliams new romantic film, Take this Waltz, was the surprising Seth Rogan. It was so refreshing to see him in a movie where I could really see him flex his acting muscles…

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  • Spiderboy

    Spiderboy

    I went to the screening of Spiderman last night and enjoyed it even more than The Avengers. It redoes the story from the beginning, rather than carrying on the story, and introduces a new villian, a scientist-cum-lizard…

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  • Tortoise in Love

    Tortoise in Love

    Small budgets don’t necessarily equal small packages – independently funded and packed full of heart, Tortoise in Love is a British rom-com without the unrealistic glitz and glamour…

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  • Monsieur Chef

    Monsieur Chef

    From the producers of the much loved, Oscar-winning French film The Artist comes Le Chef, an entertaining movie laced with equal parts of both comedy and fumbled romance…

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  • Onward the brave

    Onward the brave

    There’s been a lot of anticipation surrounding Brave – the first Pixar film to have a female protagonist/heroine, Pixar’s first fairytale, and of course, the last Pixar film to have the vision of Steve Jobs…

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  • Playing it Safe

    Playing it Safe

    With the tagline “She is the code. He is the key”, lead actor Jason Statham does not disappoint doing what he does best in the fast-paced action movie Safe.

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  • If you're happy and you know it

    If you're happy and you know it

    I watched Happy, Happy a day after watching British indie flick Submarine on DVD and noticed a distinct difference in a foreign film that tries to be clever and succeeds and one that doesn’t…

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  • Trishna of the d'Urbervilles

    Trishna of the d'Urbervilles

    The first thing I should say about this film is that it’s loosely based on the famous Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. And boy, do I mean loosely – much like Bride and Prejudice…

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  • The Kid with the Bike

    The Kid with the Bike

    I recently attended a special viewing of a beautiful drama film called The Kid with the Bike. The story follows the life of a young 12 year old boy called Cyril. Living in an orphange where his father left him, he goes on a mission to find him…

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