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2008
Articles from 26th Jun 2008
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Wanted Cert 18 110 mins
Jun 26 2008 | Film
Even more of an unlikely Hollywood action hero than Matt Damon, James McAvoy proves equally adept with this adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novels. An apathetic, spineless Chicago accountant who's bullied by his boss and whose girlfriend is cheating with his best friend, life changes for Wesley Gibson when he goes to collect his anxiety attack medication and finds himself in the middle of a gunfight between two assassins. Read
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The Edge of Love Cert 15 110 mins
Jun 26 2008 | Film
There's a Tom & Viv style tale to be told about the volatile relationship between womanising, hard drinking Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and libidinous spitfire Irish wife Caitlin. That film, however, is more likely to be the one by Marc Evans, starring Miranda Richardson and Rosamund Pike as the older and younger Caitlin. As the opening shot of Keira Knightley's airbrushed features as she serenades in an air raid shelter makes it abundantly clear, it's certainly not John Maybury's. Read
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Cert PG 144 mins
Jun 26 2008 | Film
A year after their return from Narnia, Peter (William Moseley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Susan (Anna Popplewell) and Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley) have cabin fever in wartime London when, while awaiting the tube, they find themselves transported back to the land of which they were once kings and queens. Read
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Female Agents Cert 15 117 mins Subtitled
Jun 26 2008 | Film
We've had Charlotte Grey and Black Book but, by and large, there have been surprisingly few films about the role women played in the French Resistance during the Second World War. Read
