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Friday Film News

This week – Scorsese remakes Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (The Departed) and conjoined twins become a punk band, (Brothers of the Head) First up, The Departed by director Martin Scorsese. If you’re the kind of person who believes the proclaimations of a certain man …

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Friday Film News

This week we look backwards to World Trade Center, fast forward with Click and then arrive closer to home with Life & Lyrics. Let’s just get straight into it with Bradshaw’s (1/5) review of WTC: There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty …

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Call off Christmas

All this attention on Lily means her poor old dad hardly gets a look in. That should change when the new series of Robin Hood kicks off later in the year. Keith Alan gets the plum role as The Sherriff of Nottingham and while he …

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Pakistan’s president has claimed in his memoir that the Al Qaeda ‘mastermind’ behind 9/11 was also connected to the 7 July bombings. A 22-year-old man is being questioned by police over the death of Lucy Brahamm who was found stabbed to death at her parents’ …

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British Institution vs. British Institution

Cliff Richard – old, decrepit, past its prime, obsolete, decaying, fragile… no, no, that’s what Cliff is fighting. We love Cliff. He’s like the barmy Christian neighbour we all wished we had – our very own Ned Flanders. Two years from now and the earliest …

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Friday Film News

This week – Filth and disgustingness (Dirty Sanchez: The Movie), a dystopian look at London 2027, (Children of Men) and the sequel to Clerks, (Clerks 2). Today’s Friday Film News is going to be a little different in terms of order. Usually the first spot …

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Doctor Who – Dun Roamin’

If you were wondering why a certain Timelord’s recent travels through time and space didn’t clock up much mileage, its all down to cash flow : Budget constraints mean the new series of Doctor Who is largely earthbound, says writer Russell T Davies. What bollocks. …

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A portrait by Pablo Picasso has gone on display at Christie’s ahead of an auction which, if it goes as expected, will make it one of the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold. We’ve spotted the first ‘London Fashion Week isn’t as good as …

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Friday Film News

This week – A look at the actions of the Queen and Tony Blair in the wake of Diana’s death (The Queen), a lecture by Al Gore on climate change (An Inconvienient Truth) and a thriller about a famous LA murder (The Black Dahlia). First …

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Friday Film News

This week – A dysfunctional family hop in a VW van and travel across the USA to take a young daughter to a beauty pageant (Little Miss Sunshine), a British comedy with Julie Walters and Rupert Grint (Driving Lessons) and some Americans join a German …

Random Graffiti Of The Week

Something a little different this week. Here’s how serial stenciler Banksy went about hijacking the new album by exceptionally talented genius-about-town drink-driving airhead Paris Hilton. Watch him doctor the packaging then secrete 500 copies in stores across London and the UK like some latter-day Willy …