Cinema

  • Antonio Banderas Retrospective

    Antonio Banderas Retrospective

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    Born in Málaga, southern Spain (incidentally the birthplace of Pablo Picasso, who he will be playing in an upcoming role), Antonio Banderas began his acting career at the tender age of 19, touring Spain with a theatre troupe until he landed a spot with the National Theatre of Spain. His breakthrough in Spain came in…

  • Trailer: The Raven

    Trailer: The Raven

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    The Raven stars John Cusack as author Edgar Allan Poe who teams up with Baltimore detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Fields…

  • Tom Hanks – our pick of his top ten films

    Tom Hanks – our pick of his top ten films

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    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, is in cinemas everywhere from 17th February. The film tells the story from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker. Oskar’s discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across…

  • 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…

  • 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.…