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The Great Gatsby – Review

It's the ultimate romance. A young officer named Gatsby, falls in love with a beautiful rich girl and she loves him too, but they lose touch during the first world war. Not knowing where he is or even if he survived, she marries a rich suitor. Money is everything, or so Gatsby thinks when he rediscovers her. He determines to rewrite the last five years of separation by becoming rich himself and winning back ...

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Film: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

There are Perks in Being a Wallflower, but they don’t come easy, seems to be the message of this engaging story of an introverted high-school student entering adolescence with the help of two older friends, Sam and Patrick. Although freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is gathered up by older Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), he is completely out of his depth and wears an understandably stunned expres ...

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Film: Untouchable

Untouchable and un-missable. It's based on the true story of a friendship between a paraplegic French millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his Senegalese-born carer (Omar Sy). It's funny, that means Laugh Out Loud, and it was one of those rare films that I just wished would never end. I could have happily lived in the cinema forever, given a sufficient supply of Ben and Jerry's. There are all types of feel goo ...

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Film: Looper

Good versus Evil is a pretty common theme in gun-toting thrillers packed with assassinations. But Looper is not about good versus bad. It's about good versus good. On the one side a quest for romantic love, but on the other side a quest for redemption through a mother's love. The two sides meet head on in a futuristic world where nobody trusts anybody and the biggest threat comes from within the human mind ...

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Anna Karenina – Pure Theatre

The story of a beautiful and virtuous wife who falls from grace by falling in love should be nothing if not theatrical. This is the ninth adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel with Keira Knightly as the young and beautiful Anna Karenin who is married to a worthy government official, (Jude Law) until a chance encounter with a young cavalry officer (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) on a train journey back from Moscow.  ...

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Hang On a Minute Lads….

.....I've got a Great Idea. And the installation artist Richard Wilson had this groovy notion.  He is famous for Room Filled with Sump Oil and likes to do things on a grand scale. This iconic image from The Italian Job will be hanging on to its cliff edge all summer in Bexhill to celebrate the edges of the De La Warr Pavilion. And it rocks! The bus that is. Rather slowly but most definitely. [video id="NxQD ...

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