Cinema

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new trailer

    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new trailer

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    Here’s the latest TV trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The film is the second of Sir Peter Jackson’s three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic book and will be released on December 13th. The third and final instalment, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, arrives in cinemas on July 18 2014. The films…

  • BT adds Curzon Home Cinema to YouView and Vision+ boxes

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    BT’s TV customers will be able to rent major international films on the same day as their cinema release thanks to a new deal with Curzon cinemas. The films will be available on a Pay Per View basis on both Vision+ and YouView from BT boxes via a branded Curzon Home Cinema section in BT’s…

  • Emperor – Review

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    Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox star in this superior wartime drama about the American investigation into Emperor Hirohito’s role in Pearl Harbour, instigated to establish if he should be tried as a war criminal. Jones plays General MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, who is under pressure from Washington to find Hirohito culpable…

  • October DVD and Blu-ray release for Now You See Me

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    Attracting mixed reviews when it as released at cinemas earlier this year, Now You See Me gets its UK DVD and Blu-ray release on 28th October courtesy of eONE. The film’s stellar cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. Four talented magicians mesmerise an international audience with a series of bold…

  • Clip: Captain Phillips

    Clip: Captain Phillips

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    This upcoming action-thriller from Columbia Pictures tells the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. The film stars two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks as Phillips and was directed by Oscar® nominee…

  • Tom Clancy, author of The Hunt for Red October, dies aged 66

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    Acclaimed US thriller writer Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66. Clancy is most famous for his novel Red Storm Rising, later turned into a game by military sim specialists Microprose, and his Jack Ryan series. Mr Clancy died in a hospital in Baltimore according to his publishers. A number of Clancy’s books,…