Oh Danny Boyle those major awards are calling

2:40pm Thursday 15th January 2009

HEARING the news that Danny Boyle scooped best director as well as the film being awarded the accolade ‘best drama’ at Sunday night’s Golden Globes, came as no surprise to me: it is richly deserved.

Easy Virtue (PG) - 7/10

9:14am Friday 7th November 2008

THERE is a distinctly old fashioned feel to Easy Virtue – which is hardly surprising considering it is based on a play by Noel Coward.

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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (12A) - 5/10

11:35am Tuesday 12th August 2008

Stephen Sommers, writer-director of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and leading lady Rachel Weisz sensibly bailed on this dull third chapter of the globetrotting adventure series.

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The X-Files: I Want To Believe (15) - 6/10

11:46am Tuesday 12th August 2008

If absence makes the heart grow fonder then we should be ready to fall in love again with FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

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The Dark Knight (12A) - 8/10

3:07pm Tuesday 29th July 2008

IT’S all about heroes and villains, of course. But it’s funny that while the heroes invariably win the day in movies, it’s the villains who linger in the memory.

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WALL-E (U) - 9/10

3:20pm Tuesday 29th July 2008

The technical wizards at Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles) dispel the myth that size matters in their latest computer animated fable.

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The Darjeeling Limited (15) - 8/10

9:55am Thursday 22nd November 2007

BROTHERLY love is what lies at the heart of The Darjeeling Limited, a quirky comedy that is also a road movie - or should that be rail movie? - and an engaging study of what can happen when families fall apart, and what can happen when they get together again.

American Gangster (18) - 7/10

2:51pm Thursday 15th November 2007

THE true story of master criminal Frank Lucas was always going to be a good one to make into a movie.

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Rendition (15) - 7/10

10:37am Friday 19th October 2007

EXTRAORDINARY Rendition is the US government policy which involves abducting foreign nationals deemed a threat to national security and detaining them in prisons overseas, where they will be interrogated.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (12A) - 2/10

11:23am Thursday 20th September 2007

IT is quite possible that a film even with just the title I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry is going to be offensive to homosexuals. It isn't. It's offensive to everyone.