All in Good Time – Review

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From writer Ayub Khan-Din (East is East) and director Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham) comes comedy All in Good Time. The film is based on Khan-Din’s play Rafta, Rafta, itself based on the 1966 Hayley and John Mills-movie The Family Way which in turn was adapted from Bill Naughton’s play All in Good Time. Atul (Reece Ritchie) and Vina (Amara Karan) are the newlywed couple who find family, fate … [Read more...]

Avengers Assemble – and they have cinema’s best ever Hulk

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Running more than two hours and with a cast of eight major characters, Avengers Assemble is a BIG film. If you’re not aware, it builds on Marvel’s earlier Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and, to a lesser extent, Hulk films and it’s from these that it gets its cast of superheroes and their human allies who are brought together by agent Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) after the world’s security is threatened. … [Read more...]

Blackberry Bold 9790

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The Blackberry Bold 9790 is one of RIM’s two flagship handsets, the other is the wider and more expensive Blackberry Bold 9900. The 9790 follows the ‘classic’ Blackberry look with a physical QWERTY keyboard sitting beneath a 2.45” screen with a touchpad and four buttons. If you’ve used a Blackberry before you’ll know what you’re getting - the world’s best mobile email solution wrapped up in a … [Read more...]

Curzon Cinemas harness On Demand to take brand beyond London

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London-based art house cinema chain Curzon is opening up its service to film-lovers outside the capital with its classy new Curzon On Demand streaming service. It’s important to note that Curzon isn’t trying to compete with Netflix of LOVEFiLM - you won’t find the Transformers smashing up America in their library of films. Instead, you get a hand-picked, curated selection of the best that … [Read more...]

Samsung BD-DT7800 Freeview+ HD digital recorder

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We take a look at Samsung’s BD-DT7800 Freeview+ HD digital recorder, widely available online and on the high street. In the modern household everything starts with looks, the days of dull utilitarian gadgets are long gone. Luckily the BD-DT7800 is a smart looking box with a nice, modern and hi-tech finish and will look good beneath even the most expensive of TVs. The nice looks continue on screen, with … [Read more...]

Jitters – review

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Baldvin Z’s Jitters is a carefully crafted Icelandic coming of age (and coming out) film. The story starts in Manchester where, on a school trip, students Gabriel (Atli Oskar Fjalarsson) and Markus (Haraldur Ari Stefánsson) share a drunken kiss. Arriving back in Iceland, Gabriel rejoins his friends and their problems - long lost fathers, teen break-ups and clashes with guardians - as he struggles to come … [Read more...]