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Berlin Film Festival review: Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects is a preposterous guilty pleasure
Wednesday 13 February 2013
This Freudian thriller is chock-full of murder, blackmail and illicit lesbian affairs
DVD & Blu-ray review: Anna Karenina (12A)
Friday 01 February 2013
A ravishing Keira Knightley very nearly convinces in Joe Wright's wilfully odd – most scenes take place in a theatre – adaptation of Tolstoy's tragedy.
Brave, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, 107 mins (PG)
360, Fernando Meirelles, 110 mins (15)
Sunday 12 August 2012
The Highlands are alive, but how do you solve a problem like Merida?
Publishing: A model ex – well played, Kate Moss
Friday 20 July 2012
I can't think of many people who'd be happy that their ex-partner was working on a book about them. I certainly wouldn't be keen to hear that any of my exes were planning to publish.
Tim Walker: Mixed-up casting has lost the plot
Wednesday 29 February 2012
By casting an attractive woman as Watson, CBS has neatly sidestepped one enduring source of Sherlock Holmes-based speculation: the seething homoerotic tension between the detective and his sidekick. In the BBC's hit show Sherlock, for example, Watson is frequently obliged to inform presumptuous strangers that he and Holmes are just good friends. By contrast, Guy Ritchie's macho movie adaptations seem convinced of the duo's flagrant heterosexuality.
Tim Walker: Make us laugh, Sean, and we'll forgive you
Saturday 18 February 2012
Tales From The Water Cooler: Sean Penn has been wittering cluelessly about the Falklands like a latter-day Hanoi Jane
Tim Walker: Better a bald head than a bad review
Saturday 21 January 2012
Law is better suited to supporting roles, which tend not to require flowing locks, than he is to romantic leads
Jude Law in £130k phone-hacking payout from News Group
Thursday 19 January 2012
Actor Jude Law headed a list of 37 people from all walks of life who settled their damages cases arising from the phone-hacking scandal today.
Profile: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Saturday 31 December 2011
Doyle is enjoying something of a renaissance, is he not?
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, 129 mins (12A)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Brad Bird, 132 mins (12A) (released 26 Dec)
Sunday 18 December 2011
Guy Ritchie's second Sherlock Holmes film improves on the first one in every respect.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A)
Friday 16 December 2011
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A)
Friday 16 December 2011
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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