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American Made
30 Aug 2017American Made stars Tom Cruise as the real-life pilot Barry Seal, who worked for both the CIA and the drug barons in the Eighties.
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At The Movies for 30 August 2017
30 Aug 2017Simon Morris is reminded of the limitations of "based on real life" by three fact-based movies: American Made, In Between and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power.
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The Trip to Spain - review
23 Aug 2017The Trip To Spain -– the third Trip movie – features dueling comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan and a side-order of Spanish cuisine.
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Logan Lucky - review
23 Aug 2017Logan Lucky sees director Steven Soderberg (Oceans 11) return to the big screen with a heist movie starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig.
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The Dark Tower - review
23 Aug 2017The Dark Tower is very American fantasy from novelist Stephen King, pitting Idris Elba (good) against Matthew McConaughey (evil).
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At The Movies for 23 August 2017
23 Aug 2017Simon Morris looks at the latest cinematic universe – Stephen King's The Dark Tower, plus Steven Soderberg's heist film Logan Lucky and another Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon trip, The Trip to Spain.
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A Date for Mad Mary - review
16 Aug 2017A Date for Mad Mary – a little charmer that recently won the Best Film gong at the Irish Film Awards – sees the titular character Mary determined to get a date for her best friend's wedding.
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Let the Sunshine In - review
16 Aug 2017In Let the Sunshine in, veteran French director Claire Denis plunges into the psyche of an amorous painter, played by Juliette Binoche.
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - review
16 Aug 2017Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a very French sci-fi from Luc Besson, starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delavingne and Herbie Hancock of all people!
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At The Movies for 16 August 2017
16 Aug 2017Simon Morris reviews Let The Sunshine In and A Date for Mad Mary, and struggles to make sense of the French sci-fi movie Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets.
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At The Movies for 9 August 2017
9 Aug 2017Dan Slevin (filling in for Simon Morris) reviews Atomic Blonde, The Dinner and The Big Sick.
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At The Movies: 2 August 2017
2 Aug 2017Dan Slevin reviews three films exclusively on Netflix: Brad Pitt in War Machine; Melanie Lynskey in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore and Okja, from Korean director Bong Joon-Ho.
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At The Movies for 19 July 2017
19 Jul 2017Dan Slevin reviews the final installment of the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes; a fictionalised portrayal of the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement, The Journey and…
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Monsieur Chocolat - review
12 Jul 2017Monsieur Chocolat plays to the French obsession with traditional mime, with the true story of the clown who became the most famous black man in France.
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Polina - review
12 Jul 2017Polina features a young Russian dancer lured away from the Bolshoi Ballet by French contemporary dance.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming - review
12 Jul 2017Spider-Man: Homecoming goes back to its America comic-book roots, with a young teenage superhero, crime-fighting between homework assignments.
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At the Movies: 12 July 2017
12 Jul 2017Simon Morris reviews three films about different aspects of popular culture – the American comic-book hero (Spiderman Homecoming) Russia's fixation on ballet (Polina) and France's fascination with…
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The House - review
5 Jul 2017The House stars Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as a suburban couple who start up a neighbourhood casino, with predictable results.
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The Beautiful Fantastic - review
5 Jul 2017The Beautiful Fantastic is a whimsical romance, a sort of English version of French favourite Amelie. Starring Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott and Jessica Brown Findlay.
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My Cousin Rachel - review
5 Jul 2017My Cousin Rachel is an old-fashioned gothic melodrama, written by Daphne Du Maurier, and starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.
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At The Movies: 5 July 2017
5 Jul 2017Simon Morris looks at three films competing with "blockbuster season" – My Cousin Rachel, The Beautiful Fantastic and The House.
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At The Movies for 28 June 2017
28 Jun 2017Simon Morris and Bill Gosden, the director of the New Zealand International Film Festival, preview the 2017 season, which kicks off in Auckland on 20 July.
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At the Movies - Stranger than Fiction?
21 Jun 2017At The Movies - Simon Morris discovers that fact may be stranger than fiction, but fiction usually has better endings.
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Ghost in the Shell
5 Apr 2017A Hollywood - and Wellywood - version of the Japanese cult manga series Ghost in the Shell. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Juliette Binoche.
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