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1 Day
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This gang warfare movie is set in Birmingham's black community. With aggressive hip-hop figuring as a kind of chorus commenting on the action and raising the emotional ante, it tells the familiar story
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Paper Heart
- 5 Hours ago
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Charlyne Yi stars in . Photograph: Justina Mintz A surprise popular success in the States, this cod documentary features the hugely unimpressive young Chinese-American stand-up comic Charlyne Yi, who
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Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno
- 5 Hours ago
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Romy Schneider in a scene from the unfinished L'Enfer. There's a peculiar fascination about ambitious unfinished works that listeners, viewers and readers are left to complete in their minds. In cinema
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Frank Borzage Vols I & 2
- 5 Hours ago
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Frank Borzage (1894-1962) was one of Hollywood's great romantics, a specialist in lyrical melodrama about love in adversity. But he was the son of an Austrian-born coalminer and his stories were set not
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Brüno, Night at the Museum 2 and The Informers
- 6 Hours ago
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After the ill-judged scattershot 'satire' of Borat (which hit far too many soft targets â?? ageing American feminists, for heaven's sake!) Sacha Baron Cohen raises his game somewhat with Brüno (2009,
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Jennifer's Body
- 6 Hours ago
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Megan Fox turns nasty in . Photograph: c.20thC.Fox/Everett /Rex Scripted by Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for Juno, this is the week's only vampire movie. A semi-serious, extremely bloody affair, it's
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
- 5 Hours ago
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Like Dr Strangelove, this crazy comedy of military madness is based on a non-fiction work (Jon Ronson's
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This week's film events previews
- 11/7/2009
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Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime Is Our Business. Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at
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A Christmas Carol
- 10 Hours ago
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Year: 2009 USA: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures UK: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures UK Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, Fionnula Flanagan,
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A Serious Man
- 7 Hours ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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Motherhood
- 7 Hours ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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An Education
- 7 Hours ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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The Fourth Kind
- 79 Minutes ago
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Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi. 2009. PG-13. 98mins. Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Elias Koteas. is actually the oldest kind of exploitation in the book: Break the fourth wall by having actors like chipper Milla
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Bright Star
- 14 Hours ago
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BRIGHT STAR (PG)THE BBC finance some awful movies, like Woody Allen's Scoop. For once, however, your licence money has been ideally used by writer-director Jane Campion to tell the moving story of the
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An Education
- 22 Hours ago
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day,
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Michael Jackson's This Is It
- 22 Hours ago
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Vue Cinemas - Manchester Lowry Today: 10:00, 12:30, 15:00, 17:30, 20:00, 22:25 ' ' will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created
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The Box
- 11/7/2009
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What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars... but simultaneously take the life of someone you don't know? Would you do it? And what would be
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Dead Man Running
- 11/3/2009
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A loan shark gives ex-con Nick (Tamer Hassan) twenty-four hours to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate in a desperate bid to raise the cash before it's too late. Related
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The Horseman
- 11/2/2009
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Thirty years ago, Paul Schrader made Hardcore (aka The Hardcore Life), a bold, highly charged reworking of John Ford's The Searchers starring George C Scott as a Midwestern Calvinist making a nightmare
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Endgame
- 11/6/2009
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The great events of history have a tendency to collapse into a few melodramatic snapshots that hardly do justice to the real thing. Just as the collapse of the Berlin Wall was precipitated by a more complex
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