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Morse must escape cement in new Netflix exclusive episode

TV News | Ed Williamson | 7th January 2014

In an exciting new episode of Endeavour, the young Morse and Inspector Thursday are trapped in a room slowly filling with cement. Not really: the cycling image on the Netflix PS3 app screwed up and I had the time and ill-founded confidence in my readership to convince myself that a screengrab would look funny. Now let's all get on with our lives.

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And the Oscar for Best Performance By Meryl Streep goes to...

Movie Trailer | Ali | 7th July 2011

Meryl Streep, for The Iron Lady! I KNOW, RIGHT? Here's the first trailer, in which Streep's Maggie Thatcher insists on a pearl necklace. You know what I'm talking about, fellas. (*wink*) That's right: jewellery.

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Tamara Drewe

Movie Review | James | 13th September 2010

A frequent idiom of broadsheet reviewers putting pen to paper on the subject of Tamara Drewe is to describe it as a more debauched variant of The Archers, something which is certainly true to an extent, tinged as proceedings are in the cosy trappings of Radio 4 teatime dramas. However, to do so risks dismissing this adaptation of Posy Simmonds' serial as yet another rustic folly laced with the standard Curtisian saccharine associated with most modern British comedy. Instead, director Stephen Frears has produced a film which not only contains the expected biting hyper-sexuality, but also a refreshing streak of bittersweet sincerity.

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