2015
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Brits Go Sentimental over Christmas
Christmas is still THE biggest holiday of the year for Brits and the one time that the purse strings are well and truly loosened. To make sure this happens the big Stores spend millions (in John Lewis’s case exactly £7 million) on spectacular Television adverts to pull at everyone’s heart strings. Sainsburys have just released…
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Carol
For his 6th feature film queer filmmaker Todd Haynes returns to the 1950’s and re-visits the theme of repressed sexuality that he captured so brilliantly in his Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” in 2002. Last time he worked from his own script, but this time around British/American playwright Phyllis Nagy has adapted Patricia Highsmith’s controversial novel…
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The Naked Magicians : Sleeves Up & Pants Down
When The Naked Magicians take to the stage they put a totally new meaning to the expression ‘turning tricks’. With their sleeves are up and their pants down, this handsome Australian duo Christopher Wayne and Mark Tyler have been wowing crowds Down Under with their own very particular talent that they are more than happy to…
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Steve Jobs
There is nothing remotely conventional about the enthralling biopic that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (” The Social Network”) have made about Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) the iconic visionary with a major messiah complex. Rather than try and pack in the man’s entire rather manic life in two short hours they focus…
