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Victoria And Abdul
Movie Review | Becky Suter | 21st September 2017
Shared universes are all the rage now. Marvel, DC, the Potterverse and now get this – there’s even a Royalverse, where Judi Dench is the same Queen Victoria in her new movie as she was in Mrs Brown. There’s even a Netflix spin-off series about her great-granddaughter. It’s crazy – where do they get these ideas? Regardless, in Victoria And Abdul, director Stephen Frears wants us to believe that a crotchety old queen, Empress of a country she never visited, is the most tolerant person in a time when society was decidedly un-woke. And it’s all because she wants some hot young D.
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Hyde Park On Hudson
Movie Review | Matt | 2nd February 2013
Bill Murray is great, isn't he? Is there any other person in the world with whom you'd rather have a chance encounter? He's like a mischievous uncle that you'd want to hang out with all the time; you could have a laugh and be sarcastic and pull funny faces. And then you'd introduce him to your friends because he's so cool and he'd get on with them too, sometimes even meeting them when you're not there and he'd probably make fun of you then and they'd laugh because they all like him better than you anyway and... actually, that would be awful. Fuck Bill Murray. That mad, magnificent bastard.
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Dakota Fanning is British, dying
Movie Feature | Ali | 7th March 2012
No sooner has the precocious child star grown up, she's on her bloody deathbed, in this first trailer for Brit weepie Now Is Good. And no, I'm not crying, my eyes are just allergic to sad things.
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Hanna
Movie Review | Ali | 1st May 2011
Joe Wright must be secretly pissed that Mark Millar's Kick-Ass came along and pooped on his doorstep, because Hanna is a pretty hard sell, post Hit-Girl. Teenage assassin trained as a killing machine since birth? Unless your movie has Nicolas Cage dressed like Batman with a paedo-tache, you're fighting a losing battle from the start.
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Dollhouse competition: Win series 2 on DVD
TV Feature | Kirsty | 7th October 2010
At great personal expense, we've hired a couple of Actives to infiltrate Mutant Enemy HQ and *ahem* procure three copies of the second and final series of Dollhouse on Blu-ray or DVD.
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The Ghost
Movie Review | Anna | 18th April 2010
Polanski's first film in five years has been met with a very mixed response. Little White Lies said "the whole movie is actually Polanski being, well, shit." The Guardian, however, considers the movie to be Polanski's "most purely enjoyable film for years." I'm going to have to embrace my inner Lib Dem and come down squarely in the middle with a solid-but-not-mind-blowing three stars.
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An Education
Movie Review | Anna | 28th October 2009
When we meet Jenny (Carey Mulligan), she lives a regimented existence of Latin homework and lectures from her father (Alfred Molina) about the importance of getting the grades to make it to Oxford University. This is 1960s Britain and the education Jenny and her peers receive shows them how to bake cakes and walk in a straight line with a book balanced on their heads.
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