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  • Trailer: 21 Jump Street

    Trailer: 21 Jump Street

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    The big screen remake of 21 Jump Street is heading to cinemas on March 16th. The original 1997 series starred Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson, one of a team of young-looking undercover detectives investigating crimes in high schools and colleges. In the film, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play Jump Street officers Schmidt and…

  • Freeview HD sales pass 4 million mark

    Freeview HD sales pass 4 million mark

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    The number of Freeview HD TVs and set top boxes sold reached 4.4 million by the end of December 2011, according to figures released today. Viewers with HD equipment can receive four HD channels (BBC One HD, The BBC HD Channel, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD) as well as up to 50 standard definition…

  • Damian Lewis discusses Homeland

    Damian Lewis discusses Homeland

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    Damian Lewis discusses Homeland, the hit US thriller which comes to Channel 4 on February 19th. The show also stars Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, and David Harewood and was developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, Executive Producers of 24 . Loosely based on Gideon Raff’s Israeli television series “Prisoners of War”, the drama centres…

  • Cloudburst opens London’s lesbian & gay film festival

    Cloudburst opens London’s lesbian & gay film festival

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    Thom Fitzgerald’s Cloudburst has been announced as the Opening Night film at this year’s BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The film stars Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as septuagenarian lesbian lovers dealing with the harsh realities of ageing. Dukakis plays the forcefully butch and occasionally foul-mouthed Stella, whose language is enough to make…

  • Hammer’s The Woman in Black is UK’s number one film

    Hammer’s The Woman in Black is UK’s number one film

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    Ghost story The Woman in Black took over £3m at the UK box office this weekend, making it the UK’s number one film. Last week it was announced the film, produced by legendary British horror studio Hammer, had taken $21m on its opening weekend in the US. The Woman in Black stars Daniel Radcliffe as…

  • 60’s spy thrills at Museum of London Docklands

    60’s spy thrills at Museum of London Docklands

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    Harry Saltzman’s movie version of The Ipcress File is being screened at the Museum of London Docklands cinema club next month. Adapted from Len Deighton’s spy novel of the same name, the film stars Sir Michael Caine as spy Harry Palmer. Palmer finds himself caught up in a sinister brainwashing plot in Cold War London.…