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Book reviews: For The Glory: The Life Of Eric Liddell, Not Working and Zero K

Posted: May 13, 2016 at 5:34 pm   /   Books

ERIC LIDDELL’S athletic prowess was immortalised in the 1981 movie Chariots Of Fire. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Film reviews: Our Kind Of Traitor, Everybody Wants Some and The Angry Birds Movie

Posted: May 13, 2016 at 5:42 am   /   Movies

OUR Kind Of Traitor has the misfortune to be released when The Night Manager still burns brightly in the collective memory. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Film reviews: Florence Foster Jenkins and I Saw The Light

Posted: May 8, 2016 at 5:19 pm   /   Movies

THEY say it’s the taking part that counts but spare a thought for the poor opera lovers who listened to Florence Foster Jenkins, a game old songbird whose chutzpah and enthusiasm were not matched by ability. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Film reviews: Florence Foster Jenkins, Knight Of Cups and Truman

Posted: May 6, 2016 at 5:20 am   /   Movies

IF God loves a trier then He must have adored society heiress Florence Foster Jenkins. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Film reviews: Captain America, Son Of Saul and Demolition

Posted: May 1, 2016 at 5:19 pm   /   Movies

SAVING the day can be a very messy business. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Book reviews: Eligible, Restoration and Hitman Anders And The Meaning Of It All

Posted: April 29, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Books

There have been many book, film and TV takes on Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen’s eternally popular novel. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Film reviews: Captain America, Demolition and Son Of Saul

Posted: April 29, 2016 at 5:19 am   /   Movies

WHAT does it profit a superhero to save the world if thousands of lives are lost in the process? Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Book reviews: All At Sea and The Brontës: A Life In Letters

Posted: April 25, 2016 at 5:27 am   /   Books

A TRAGIC death and newly discovered Brontë family letters feature in this week’s poignant five-star reads. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Film reviews: Bastille Day, Jane Got A Gun and Miles Ahead

Posted: April 24, 2016 at 5:19 am   /   Movies

DON’T mess with Idris Elba! That’s the general thesis of riotous action thriller Bastille Day in which Elba’s growly undercover agent, Sean Briar, charges around Paris trying to prevent an imminent atrocity, taking on simpering colleagues, suspected terrorists and the corrupt Paris police force. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Book reviews: The Co-Op’s Got Bananas and The One-In-A-Million Boy

Posted: April 22, 2016 at 5:30 pm   /   Books

A MEMOIR of growing up in the post-war north,” says the cover of Hunter Davies’s new book but anyone expecting a read that calls to mind the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch or the phrase “It’s grim oop north” will be sorely disappointed. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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