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TV review: House, Sky One

5:24pm Friday 12th March 2010

THE greatest double act on the small screen at the moment has returned triumphantly to Sky One.

Film review: Green Zone (15)

Film review: Green Zone (15)

5:19pm Friday 12th March 2010

Award-winning British filmmaker Paul Greengrass and actor Matt Damon, the driving forces behind The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, turn their attention to Iraq in this riveting thriller.

Film review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (15)

Film review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (15)

5:16pm Friday 12th March 2010

Scandinavian director Neils Arden Oplev introduces a memorably unconventional heroine in his superb adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson.

Film review: Shutter Island (15)

Film review: Shutter Island (15)

5:14pm Friday 12th March 2010

THE lunatics are taking over the asylum, or that’s what Martin Scorsese’s impeccably crafted psychological thriller would have us believe.

Film review: Crazy Heart (15)

Film review: Crazy Heart (15)

12:46pm Friday 5th March 2010

JEFF Bridges seems destined, undeservedly, to win the Academy Award as Best Actor In A Leading Role for his turn as a washed up country and western singer, who lives by the bottle.

Film review: Case 39 (15)

Film review: Case 39 (15)

12:47pm Friday 5th March 2010

In Christian Alvart’s ludicrous, supernatural yarn, Renee Zellweger takes the lead as social worker Emily, who takes in 10-year-old Lillith (Jodelle Ferland) after saving her from being killed by her parents.

Film review: Alice In Wonderland (PG)

Film review: Alice In Wonderland (PG)

5:41pm Thursday 4th March 2010

Combining a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

TV review: Michael Winner’s Dining Stars, ITV1

foodie fun: Michael Winner who is travelling the country judging home-cooking

5:43pm Thursday 4th March 2010

I QUITE like Michael Winner. He made rubbish films, his insurance adverts are terrible, but somehow he managed a long-term relationship with Jenny Seagrove and he once ordered his chauffeur to stop while I crossed a road in London, enthusiastically waving me on in the process.

TV review: One Born Every Minute, Channel 4

baby tales: One Born Every Minute

5:45pm Thursday 4th March 2010

A LETTER fell out of a birthday card sent to my partner by her friend Dominique.

Film review: From Paris With Love (15)

Film review: From Paris With Love (15)

4:03pm Friday 26th February 2010

PARIS: The city of romantic overtures, fine cuisine, sartorial elegance and crunching car chases along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.

Film review: Extraordinary Measures (PG)

4:18pm Friday 26th February 2010

Extraordinary Measures is a well-intentioned real-life battle against adversity, that would surely have been consigned to the small screen were it not for a starry, A-list cast, including an executive producer’s role for Harrison Ford.

Film review: Leap Year (PG)

Film review: Leap Year (PG)

4:00pm Friday 26th February 2010

THE luck of the Irish runs out for one hopeless romantic in Anand Tucker’s implausible comedy, so it does, to be sure, to be sure.

TV review: Masterchef, BBC1

master foodies: John Torode, left, and Gregg Wallace

5:51pm Thursday 25th February 2010

“WHOEVER wins this it could change their laaaf,” hollers grocer Gregg as he shouts in another series of Masterchef.

TV review: EastEnders, BBC1

capital dramA: Larry Lamb as murder victim Archie Mitchell, surrounded by other EastEnders characters

5:50pm Thursday 25th February 2010

IN 1985, as we settled down in our gaff with a nice cup of cha, I says to my old mum, I says, “Mum, the only soaps that will still be going in 2010 will be Albion Market and El Dorado, you mark my words."

Film review: Everybody’s Fine (12A)

family matters: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Lucian Maisel in Everyone’s Fine

5:48pm Thursday 25th February 2010

If Hollywood has taught us anything over the decades, it’s that resentment, regret and anguish simmer beneath the surface of almost every seemingly perfect family.

Film review: Solomon Kane (15)

Film review: Solomon Kane (15)

6:31pm Friday 19th February 2010

Michael J Bassett writes and directs this historical action adventure based on the character created by Robert E Howard.

Film review: The Lovely Bones (12A)

HELP FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: Saoirse Ronan stars as murder victim Susie Salmon who helps her grieving loved ones find her killer

6:28pm Friday 19th February 2010

There is life after death in Peter Jackson’s visually stunning interpretation of the bestseller by Alice Sebold, which proves to be one adaptation too far for the Oscar-winning director of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and King Kong.

Film review: The Last Station (15)

Film review: The Last Station (15)

6:30pm Friday 19th February 2010

It’s easy to appreciate creative genius, but it must be hell to live with it.

TV review: Relocation: Phil Down Under, Channel4

searching in the sun: Phil Spencer looking for new homes in Australia

3:26pm Friday 19th February 2010

TELEVISION seems designed to provoke jealousy.

Julianne Moore talks Chloe

4:43pm Wednesday 17th February 2010

Four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore has one of the richest and most varied CVs in Hollywood.

Film review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (PG)

Film review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (PG)

4:54pm Friday 12th February 2010

YOU wait years for an all-action adventure inspired by Greek mythology, and then two come along at virtually the same time.

Film review: Valentine's Day (12A)

Film review: Valentine's Day (12A)

4:58pm Friday 12th February 2010

Why should we all feel compelled to bare our souls on February 14, when any other day of the year would do just as well and isn’t nearly as expensive?

Film review: A Single Man (12A)

Film review: A Single Man (12A)

4:59pm Friday 12th February 2010

Oscar-nominated Colin Firth stars in Tom Ford’s first cinematic outing, which is a haunting drama about a professor who secretly says farewell to the people he loves as he contemplates suicide after the death of his lover.

Film review: The Wolfman (15)

Film review: The Wolfman (15)

6:51pm Thursday 11th February 2010

Some of cinema’s most iconic creatures, including Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and The Mummy, hark back to the golden age of Universal Studios in the 1930s and 1940s, when Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains stalked the big screen with malicious intent.

Peter set for Brits debut

Peter Kay is hosting the Royal Variety Show at Blackpool

12:07pm Wednesday 10th February 2010

PETER Kay fans will be able to see the Bolton comedian host this year’s BRIT awards when they are broadcast live on ITV on Tuesday.

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.







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