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Film reviews: The Lady In The Van, Steve Jobs, The Fear Of 13 and A Christmas Star

Posted: November 19, 2015 at 6:00 am   /   Movies

ALREADY missing your weekly dose of Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey? Then help is at hand with the release of The Lady In The Van in which Smith recreates her admired stage performance as the cantankerous homeless woman who came to rely on the kindness of playwright Alan Bennett. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Book reviews: eyE Marty, Number 11 and Things That Nobody Knows

Posted: November 17, 2015 at 5:35 pm   /   Books

1982, at the absurdly early age of 48, the comedy writer and actor Marty Feldman died. Thirty years later, after his beloved wife Lauretta passed away, this autobiography was discovered in her attic. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Film reviews: The Lady In The Van, Steve Jobs, Fathers And Daughters

Posted: November 16, 2015 at 6:54 am   /   Movies

NATIONAL Treasures alert! Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Film reviews: Sicario, Suffragette and Regression

Posted: October 11, 2015 at 9:05 pm   /   Movies

THERE IS an unnerving climactic scene in drugs war thriller Sicario when government agent Alejandro comes face-to-face with a Mexican cartel boss, his wife and two young boys, sticking a pistol in their faces at the dinner table. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Comic cooks up a tasty memoir: Book reviews

Posted: October 9, 2015 at 8:35 pm   /   Books

SUE Perkins has endeared herself to the nation by being one half of a comedy duo injecting a layer of high spirits into a rather well-known baking show. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Fassbender has royal blood and guts- Film reviews

Posted: October 8, 2015 at 6:31 am   /   Movies

IT IS hard to recall a Shakespeare adaptation as raw and bleak as Justin Kurzel’s version of Macbeth. Daily Express :: Films Feed

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Sir Tom Jones’ autobiography is sadly not a kiss and tell- Book reviews

Posted: October 6, 2015 at 6:36 am   /   Books

IN the tradition of so many autobiographies these days, Tom Jones’ doesn’t tell you what you really want to hear. Daily Express :: Books Feed

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Film reviews: The Martian, The Walk, Macbeth and The Intern

Posted: October 5, 2015 at 5:25 pm   /   Movies

CAN Sir Ridley rescue Mars? The red planet has hitherto proved a movie dead zone with well regarded directors churning out planet-sized flops, including Brian de Palma , Robert Zemeckis and Andrew ‘Finding Nemo’ Stanton . Daily Express :: Films Feed

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