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YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER

Woody Allen's latest concerns married couples Alfie and Helena and their daughter Sally and her husband Roy, whose passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. Alfie leaves Helena for a free-spirited call girl, Helena gives her life over to a charlatan fortune

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THE THIN RED LINE

‘Every man fights his own war.’ The premise of this compelling and radically different Hollywood movie belies its ground-breaking uniqueness in the war genre: US soldiers fighting the last front ...

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ZULU

  Practically a cult classic, CyEndfield’s 1964 colonial war adventure adds a different dimension to the war genre, while still rehearsing the elements that make war films so popular: heroism ...

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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: Part One

  A simultaneous worldwide release means that reviewers do not yet have access to the seventh Harry Potter film, so the production’s previews and trailers provide the necessary information (as ...

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KNIGHT and DAY

  Sexy non-stop action comedy with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as an unlikely pairing, he a secret agent and she the woman caught in the middle of fast-moving international ...

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GROWN UPS

  Five friends with their wives and families in tow spend an Independence Day weekend at a lakeside resort to commemorate the passing of their school basketball coach. As the ...

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Festival of festivals,

Until December 10, the Odeon Cinema is hosting the seventh annual 50 Days of International Cinema. The festival, which opened on October 21, brings under one roof the various festivals that had been scattered around the city and held at various times of the year. The intense and fascinating program

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EAT PRAY LOVE

Julia Roberts plays a woman who pursues self-realisation by detaching herself from her middle-class securities and takes off on a voyage of discovery. Leaving behind her husband, on her travels she learns the joys of eating (in Italy, where else?), the certainties of spirituality in India and true

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BURIED

Buried was a surprising Sundance Festival hit, and its premise belies its fascination: 170,000 square miles of desert; 90 minutes of oxygen; no way out. As its title suggests, the story centres on being buried alive and the experience is related at first hand. Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is

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LEAVES OF GRASS

Walt Whitman may not have had marijuana in mind when he coined the title of this poem, but Tim Blake Nelson's movie very definitely does. Edward Norton performs a double act as identical twin brothers Bill and Brady Kincaid, one an Ivy League professor, the other a small-time

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INCEPTION

Christopher Nolan's latest mind-bending adventure features Leonardo DiCaprio in a mature and challenging role that must rate as one of his finest so far. Nolan's peculiar mix of action movie and psychological investigation works on a number of levels, and the layers within layers and dreams within

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LONDON RIVER

The 7/7 terrorist attacks on London in 2005 in which 52 people died and hundreds were seriously injured and mutilated forms the backdrop for this movie about people from the most dissimilar backgrounds coming together in multicultural London. Brenda Blethyn plays Elisabeth, searching for her daughter and the Malian

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