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There are those who will dismiss Wes Anderson 's latest movie, Moonrise Kingdom , as a pointless periphery - quirkiness for the sake of ...

It seemed somewhat appropriate going to see Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy about a tyrannical despot on the day that the British monarch ent...

I went to see Mirror, Mirror when I made the mistake of giving my daughters the choice of movie to go see. It's not an awful movie, a...

I like French movies. They tend to avoid the same mistakes as Hollywood moves (or even British movies) by not getting fixated with special e...

Ricky Gervais isn't one to shy away from controversy. Some might suggest he seems to deliberately court controversy because it helps vi...

I've never been one to be sucked into cult teen stories. Sure, as a school kid I read Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books but wasn...

About 20 years ago I spent a few days in Philadelphia and visited Edgar Allen Poe's house there. It may have changed since then but when...

I'm just watching the first episode of Homeland , which is currently being shown on Channel 4 in the UK after a prize-winning series in ...

9/11, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC, took place less than a month before our...

I remember, years ago, going to see the play of The Woman in Black in the West End and being told by everyone that it was the most terrifyi...

Martha Marcy May Marlene may not be the snappiest of movie titles I've ever come across, and, I must confess, I had to read it from the...

Everyone over a certain age knows "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - either from the John le Carré novel or the tremendous television a...

The past few months have seen some tremendous performances by actors being other, historical figures - Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, an...

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If you've not used Newsstand on an iOS5 device yet you really don't know what you're missing (obviously). In the same way a...

 This morning I went to watch The Adventures of Tin Tin - Secret of the Unicorn expecting big things - directed by Steven Spielberg , co-wr...

Such is the power and plausibility of Stephen Soderbergh 's latest movie I found, to my cost, that when watching Contagion at a cinema...

John Madden 's new thriller, The Debt , is a remake of an Israeli movie of the same name made in 2007. It begins with three retired Mos...