The James Bond franchise (I hate that word) is one that has been going for 50 years now. It’s amazing how everything about the films – from their genre to the characterisation – has evolved ...
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Director James Watkins
Screenwriters Susan Hill (novel), Jane Goldman (screenplay)
Cast Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer
Anyone who has seen Susan Hill’s eery tale The Woman in Black on stage will know that the performance is terrifying. ...
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The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
If you’ve seen the first Human Centipede film, you may well have been pretty disgusted. It wasn’t nice, was it? But this one is worse. This story follows Martin Lomax, a ...
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The 1930s: Queen Christina
If you want to watch a love story where a monarch gives up a throne for love, don’t watch Madonna’s latest, W.E., which is a bland, dull retelling ...
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A long time ago, in a multiplex not so far away, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was released to a baying public, hungry for the most hyped ...
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A Dangerous Method
Director David Cronenberg
Screenwriters Christopher Hampton (play), John Kerr (novel)
Cast Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley
A bit of an intense film, this one – a very starkly constructed look ...
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Big Miracle
Director Ken Kwapis
Screenwriters Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Thomas Rose (novel)
Cast Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski
Whales... gotta love them; and this is exactly the kind of emotional response Big Miracle is counting on. Even for those who couldn’t care less about animals or the environment, Kwapis’ pleasant enough family picture where we see a group of brave scientists, environmental activists, reporters, ...
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Last week, Felix Film was lucky enough to wangle a seat in a round-table interview with Viggo Mortensen – yes, an actual real actor – who played Freud quite brilliantly ...
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