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  • Trailer: Paul

    Trailer: Paul

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    Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an…

  • Trailer: Burlesque

    Trailer: Burlesque

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    Burlesque sees Christina Aguilera playing Ali, a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon the majestic but ailing The Burlesque Lounge Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress but Burlesque’s outrageous costumes and bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue,…

  • Yesterday explores Colditz

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    Classic drama series Colditz is coming to digital channel Yesterday, which is also showing a new documentary offering an emotive account of life inside the renowned prison from which it was boasted no-one could escape. However, despite the boast, there were escapes and the documentary delves deep into some of those incredible escape attempts and…

  • Stars line-up for West is West gala premiere

    Stars line-up for West is West gala premiere

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    East is East star Jimi Mistry joined co-star Om Puri for the gala premiere of sequel West is West at the London Film Festival, last night. Directed by Andy De Emmony (Fantabulosa) and written by Ayub Khan-Din (East is East), the film reunites the much-loved Khan family from the first film with original cast members…

  • BBC Licence Fee frozen for six years

    BBC Licence Fee frozen for six years

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    The BBC Licence Fee is to be frozen for six years under a new funding deal agreed between the corporation and coalition government ministers. In addition to the freeze, which is equivalent to a 16% real terms cut, the BBC will have to meet the costs of running Welsh language channel S4C and take over…

  • Preview: The First Men in the Moon

    Preview: The First Men in the Moon

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    Mark Gatiss takes time out from exploring the history of Horror cinema to co-star in his own adaptation of H.G Wells’s classic novel as the eccentric Professor Cavor opposite Rory Kinnear as co-lunar explorer Bedford.