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Video: Film trailers for the latest releases
Sunday 28 July 2013
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Video: Film trailers for the latest releases
Friday 26 July 2013
Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:
Film review: Dial M for Murder 3D (PG)
Thursday 25 July 2013
Remarkably, Hitchcock shot this adaptation of Frederick Knott's stage hit in 3D, just when the fad was on the wane (in 1954). The director himself said, "It was a nine-day wonder, and I came in on the ninth day." Now it has been carefully restored by the Warner Bros team, though its staginess remains impervious to tinkering.
DVD & Blu-ray review: The Village: Series 1, For retail and rental (Entertainment One)
Friday 05 July 2013
The first six hours of a planned 42 telling the story of a Derbyshire village over the 20th century, and, yes, this first series of Peter Moffat’s drama groaned under its ambition.
Aristotle Onassis's yacht Christina O put up for sale
Tuesday 02 July 2013
There are the haves and the have-yachts - and then there are those who can afford £21 million yachts.
Review: I Laughed, I Cried, By Viv Groskop
Sunday 30 June 2013
Stand up if you're in a mid-life crisis
Dirty secrets of Hollywood’s golden age revealed as PI’s archive is released
Friday 07 June 2013
Rock Hudson’s row with his wife and Marilyn Monroe having sex with JFK among records
Tories brand Ed Miliband a 'hypocrite' over Labour donor's tax avoidance
Thursday 06 June 2013
Party helped John Mills avoid tax of up to £1.5m by accepting a £1.65m donation in the form of shares in his JML shopping channel company rather than cash
Top Labour donor's share gift to party avoided £1.5m tax
Wednesday 05 June 2013
John Mills gave Party £1.65m in shares rather than cash to reduce tax bill
France's first gay marriage: Sinatra plays as Vincent and Bruno make history
Wednesday 29 May 2013
The mayor hailed the “historic moment” that two French people of the same sex were united in marriage.
Album: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, Somewhere (ECM)
Saturday 25 May 2013
A new live recording from the world's leading jazz trio – now 30 years old – doesn't set the pulse racing as much as it once did.
Hollywood silences leading ladies as speaking roles for women slump
Wednesday 15 May 2013
"Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close up…now give me something to say." Speaking roles for women in Hollywood blockbusters have fallen to their lowest level in five years, a new report has found.
Paperback review: Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy, By Douglas Smith
Sunday 12 May 2013
Ghostly testimony from a world away
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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