Film
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What a Marvel
Read more: What a MarvelAvengers starts with story threads from both Thor and Captain America. In its own way this film reads like a comic with the story being much more rounded if you have watched (read) the previous films…
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Yogawoman
Read more: YogawomanTraditionally women in India were not allowed to practise yoga. In the 20th Century women pushed through these boundaries. The film Yogawoman explores the rise and rise of yoga in the west and the huge following it has gathered…
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Liam Neeson's Grey Power
Read more: Liam Neeson's Grey PowerI don’t want to say it, but when I first heard about this film it looked like Taken with wolves – Liam Neeson puts his extreme action skills to the test to defend the group, taking down a gang of wolves…
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A Princess of Mars
Read more: A Princess of MarsWith such incredible pedigree – fantasy/science fiction 100 years old, based on the Edgar Rice Burrough book A Princess of Mars (1917) there should have been more fanfare about this movie than there was…
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The Hunger Games
Read more: The Hunger GamesConsidered the new Twilight, and smashing box-office records, The Hunger Games sets the standard in teen fiction films by taking aim at more than its target audience…
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The Women on the 6th Floor
Read more: The Women on the 6th FloorThere exists in European cinema a particular kind of feel good film that you rarely find elsewhere. Philippe Le Guay’s The Women on the 6th Floor is just such a film…
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The Artist
Read more: The ArtistIt is interesting that in our time of reality TV, remakes and big blockbusters, The Artist’s 1920s-1930s setting still reflects the cycle of fickle celebrity stardom that continues today…
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Ides of March
Read more: Ides of MarchAs a slow-burning melodrama, don’t expect any explosive tension as these candidates go head to head in Ides of March- but watch the sparks crackle under the surface of this character study starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney…
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Killer Elite
Read more: Killer EliteKiller Elite wouldn’t have been a film we would have chosen based on its title and trailer which suggested just the usual gunplay, punch-ups and car chases. But we were in for a pleasant surprise. It was also a gripping yarn with plenty of twists…
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The Descendants
Read more: The DescendantsWritten and directed by Alexander Payne of ‘Sideways’, ‘The Descendants’ was winner of both the Best Motion Picture – and George Clooney for Best Actor playing a descendant of Hawaiian royalty – at the recent Golden Globes awards…