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From Queen to 007, Morgan to write new Bond film
Peter Morgan, the screenwriter of award-winning films including The Queen and Frost/Nixon, is to turn his hand to the latest James Bond thriller, the film's producers have confirmed.
Guillermo del Toro: The monster man
Cinema's king of macabre has found time between directing Pan's Labyrinth and The Hobbit for a series of novels. He tells Guy Adams about his insatiable appetite for fantasy – and his 'Man Cave'
Looking For Eric, Ken Loach, 116 mins, (15)
Soi Cowboy, Thomas Clay, 117 mins, (15)
Don't be fooled by Eric Cantona and the football trimmings. This is a deeply political film at heart
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6 Top Ten Literary Tear Jerkers
7 Karl Lagerfield: Designs for ballet
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Drag Me To Hell, 15
Sam Raimi takes a break between Spider-Man films in order to deliver the kind of supernatural horror-comedy with which he made his name: slick, outrageous, darkly witty and enormously good fun.
Nationwide
Let The Right One In, 15
It’s been tagged as “the Swedish vampire movie”, but this film plays not as a harum-scarum horror but as a touching and weirdly chaste love story. K�re Hedebrant stars as a 12-year-old who, in a snowbound suburb of Stockholm, befriends a young girl and begins to understand why she only appears after dark.
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Coraline, PG
This 3D animation, adapted from a Neil Gaiman novella, is a visually sumptuous and wonderfully uncanny tale for children. It’s the phantasmagoric adventure of an inquisitive 11-year-old girl who discovers a secret doorway that leads to an alternate, and initially more seductive, version of her life,
Nationwide
Sleep Furiously, U
This quietly observant non-narrative documentary about life in the small farming community in rural mid-Wales is deceptively artful and unexpectedly absorbing.
Limited release
The Hangover, 15
A blissfully silly guys-together misadventure about the morning after the night before, with some very funny,
very non-PC dialogue and some terrific turns by a cast of virtually unknown actors.
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