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First look at Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in The Railway Man

Transmission has dated Jonathan Teplitzky’s upcoming UK-Australian co-production, The Railway Man, for a December 26, 2013 release. The local distributor must have high hopes for the feature, which stars Colin Firth as real-life POW Eric Lomax and Nicole Kidman as his wife Patti, given its placement in the busy Christmas period. It also features Jeremy […]

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Feels like we only go backwards – Great Expectations review

By Simon Miraudo March 4, 2013 Following on from Alfonso Cuaron‘s modern update of Great Expectations, Mike Newell becomes the latest director (and second Harry Potter helmer) to try his hand at Charles Dickens’ classic novel. He returns the tale to its 19th century roots, and casts notorious scene gobblers Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, […]

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God save the equine – War Horse review

War Horse – Starring Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Peter Mullan. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Rated M. Originally published December 22, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. War Horse arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 2, 2012. At its core, War Horse is an anti-combat film about the cowardice of man in comparison to the bravery and unflinching determination of animals. It sounds like it […]

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God save the equine – War Horse review

War Horse – Starring Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and Peter Mullan. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. At its core, War Horse is an anti-combat film about the cowardice of man in comparison to the bravery and unflinching determination of animals. It sounds like it were tailor-made for Werner Herzog. In actuality, it’s […]

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First look at Helena Bonham Carter in Great Expectations

Yikes! Just when you thought she was already cranking ’11’ on the nutty scale, Helena Bonham Carter shows off her latest cinematic look. Deadline have the first images of Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s upcoming adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. Havisham is a spinster who sits in her […]

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