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Film review: The Princess And The Frog (U)

Film review: The Princess And The Frog (U)

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

In an extraordinary career, producer Walt Disney redefined the boundaries of hand-drawn animation.

Film review: Astro Boy (PG)

Film review: Astro Boy (PG)

5:39pm Friday 5th February 2010

The iconic figure of Astro Boy takes flight in a new computer-animated adventure directed by David Bowers, with a storyline that puts a futuristic spin on the classic tale of Pinocchio.

Film review: Invictus (12A)

SPORTING CHALLENGE: Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

ON February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid.

TV review: Delia Through The Years, BBC2

COOKING THROUGH THE AGES: Delia goes back to basics

11:54am Thursday 4th February 2010

IF nothing else, this programme serves up (ho ho ho) a lesson as to why viewing figures have dipped over the years.

TV review: Bellamy’s People, BBC2

FAN CLUB: Bellamy, centre, and his sisterly fans

5:30pm Friday 29th January 2010

THIS programme arrived much-hyped, with a strong on-screen team and a decent concept.

TV review: How It’s Made, Discovery Science

5:16pm Friday 29th January 2010

WATCHING roughly eight Sky+ed episodes of this taught me two things: why the world is hurtling towards full unemployment and just how my teachers managed to make science so boring.

Film review: Edge Of Darkness (15)

CHASING CLUES: Mel Gibson investigates his own daughter’s mysterious death in Edge of Darkness

4:42pm Friday 29th January 2010

AWARD-WINNING, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood.

Film review: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire (15)

Review: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire (15)

4:45pm Friday 29th January 2010

AN average of 60 children are sexually abused in Britain every single day.

Film review: Adoration (15)

Film review: Adoration (15)

4:48pm Friday 29th January 2010

Toronto high school student Simon is still haunted by the death of his parents in a car accident many years ago and the young man struggles to understand why the universe chose to take them from him.

TV review: Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 4

TV review: Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 4

4:22pm Friday 29th January 2010

SO tonight’s the big night — it’s the Big Brother final.

TV review: Nurse Jackie, BBC2

6:01pm Friday 22nd January 2010

TV fans still mourning The Sopranos are in for a treat with the latest US-imported drama, Nurse Jackie.

Film review: Ninja Assassin (18)

Film review: Ninja Assassin (18)

6:05pm Friday 22nd January 2010

The title of James McTeigue’s martial arts action adventure succinctly sums up the vicarious thrills of this chopsocky nonsense.

Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

6:08pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the emotionally devastating memoir of Simon Carr.

TV review: The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best, BBC2

TV review: The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best, BBC2

3:57pm Thursday 21st January 2010

ARE Dave Myers and Si King the luckiest people on television?

Film review: Brothers (15)

REVELATION Tobey Maguire in Brothers

3:55pm Thursday 21st January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama, Brodre, love is war as two siblings — polar opposites — are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.

Film review: All About Steve (12A)

Film review: All About Steve (12A)

5:23pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Sandra Bullock was the undisputed queen of Hollywood in 2009. Alas, a snow-laden 2010 doesn't treat her so well.

TV review: The F Word, Channel 4

4:05pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Just as I thought Gordon Ramsay had completely lost the plot, he pulled it back from the brink.

Film review: Up In The Air (15)

Film review: Up In The Air (15)

4:03pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Comedy Drama. George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Jason Bateman, JK Simmons. Director: Jason Reitman.

Film review: Sherlock Holmes (12A)

Film review: Sherlock Holmes (12A)

5:12pm Friday 8th January 2010

Guy Ritchie’s reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth should have been a dream new beginning for the director.

Film review: Post Grad (12A)

Film review: Post Grad (12A)

4:52pm Friday 8th January 2010

Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) was the girl destined for great things.

Film review: Did You Hear About The Morgans? (PG)

FISH OUT OF WATER: Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in Did You Hear About The Morgans

4:45pm Friday 8th January 2010

What a difference a decade makes. The last time Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker worked together, they played medics in the misfiring 1996 thriller, Extreme Measures.

Film review: Spread (18)

PRICE OF LOVE: Ashton Kutcher decides to put his best asset on the market in Spread

4:50pm Friday 8th January 2010

Some people are willing to work hard and make sacrifices to secure the finer things in life. Others want it handed to them on a silver platter.

Interview: Mary Tamm talks about Doctor Who - and win a box set

Cartoon by Jason Lythgoe-Hay

3:30pm Friday 8th January 2010

MIDWAY through Tom Baker’s tenure as Doctor Who, the producers decided on an innovative idea. The whole of the 16th season of the show, which was broadcast in 1978, would be one vast story-arc comprising six separate adventures.

Film review: It's Complicated (15)

SECOND TIME ROUND: Meryl Streep re-kindles her romance with ex-husband Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated

3:07pm Friday 8th January 2010

Failure is an education. That’s particularly true of romantic dalliances: to truly appreciate perfection, first you must recognise the qualities that will drive you to distraction.

Film review: The Road (15)

TOUGH TIMES: Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road

3:09pm Friday 8th January 2010

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Film review: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)

Film review: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)

3:10pm Friday 8th January 2010

Distinguished by an incendiary lead performance from Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a freewheeling biopic of 1970s punk pioneer Ian Dury that is every bit as unconventional and fantastical as the man himself.

TV review: Gavin and Stacey, BBC2

GOOD SERIES: James Corden and Mat Horne, who play Smithy and Gavin

11:56am Friday 8th January 2010

SO, the last Gavin and Stacey ever? Or was it?

Film review: Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel (U)

Film review: Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel (U)

4:25pm Friday 18th December 2009

THEY’RE not big, and the film’s certainly not clever, but there is something oddly entertaining about singing chipmunks.

Film review: St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (U)

Film review: St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (U)

4:28pm Friday 18th December 2009

OLIVER Parker and Barnaby Thompson share the director’s chair for the sequel to their 2007 comedy, set in one of Britain’s most notorious schools, where the girls wield hockey sticks like weapons and take no prisoners on and off the pitch.

TV review: Out of My Depth, ITV1

3:39pm Friday 18th December 2009

I learned two things from this week’s telly: midwives are angels on earth and Amanda Holden is actually quite nice.







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