Cinema

  • Trailer: Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van

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    Here’s the very first trailer of The Lady In The Van which stars Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour, Jim Broadbent and Gwen Taylor.

  • Trailer: Maxine Peake as Hamlet

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    Producers say the use of eight cameras operated by “an expert team” have allowed them to capture “the intensity of the stage production with all the polish and care of a feature film.”

  • Empire Cinemas’ March arts line-up includes Swan Lake (Live) and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge

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    National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Love’s Labour’s Won are also among the arts and live performance treats being offered by Empire Cinemas in March.

  • Top Casino Era Movies

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    Ever since the dawn of cinematic releases, directors and producers have tried to emulate a variety of different era on the silver screen. Ranging from the height of the Roman Empire, to the soulful 1970’s, audiences have become engrossed with plotlines and characters to take them away from reality.

  • Ethan Hawke in Good Kill – UK poster

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    The film sees Ethan Hawke play a US fighter-pilot turned drone-pilot who fights the Taliban via remote control for half of his day, then goes home to his wife (January Jones) and kids in the suburbs for the other half.

  • Favourite casino movie moments

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    Over the years, there have been plenty of great casino scenes in the movies. There’s something about casinos that draws film directors to shoot scenes in them even when the focus isn’t all about gambling.