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Pixar speaker booked for Animex festival
AN animator from an Oscar nominated film will be among the speakers at Teesside University’s ANIMEX INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL next week.
Princess and the Frog is return to Disney of old
WITH the aid of continually improving computer gadgetry, we all know that drawing film cartoons by hand is a skill long confined to movie history. Wrong!
Precious touches on a raw nerve
ON PAPER, a film about an obese illiterate teenager who is pregnant with her father’s child, doesn’t seem destined for box-office success.
Armored puts new spin on heist genre
THERE may be no longer any mystery as to how the gang robs the safe, steals the gold or takes the picture, yet reruns of heist movies remain endlessly popular and continue to spawn modern remakes.
Ray Winstone's tough role in Edge of Darkness
CONSIDER who Ray Winstone replaced in the gritty thriller EDGE OF DARKNESS and you realise how high a movie profile the Cockney actor currently enjoys.
Film Reviews & Previews
Review: Astro Boy (PG)
FROM an auspicious beginning in a 1951 Japanese manga comic book created by Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy has become firmly embedded in popular culture around the world.
Review: Invictus (12A)
ON February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he re-entered a country divided by apartheid.
Review: The Princess and the Frog (U)
IN an extraordinary career, producer Walt Disney redefined the boundaries of hand-drawn animation.
Review: Youth in Revolt (15)
IN the movies, the good guy gets the girl, ruefully confides the socially awkward hero of Youth In Revolt, adding that in real life, the girl usually walks off into the sunset with a jerk.
Review: Precious (15)
ACCORDING to figures released this week by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), an average of 60 children are sexually abused in Britain every day.
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Me and Orson Welles
Richard, an aspiring young actor, encounters the backstabbing world of theatre.
Me and Orson Welles
Richard, an aspiring young actor, encounters the backstabbing world of theatre.
Avatar 3D
Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet.
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Review: Astro Boy (PG)
FROM an auspicious beginning in a 1951 Japanese manga comic book created by Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy has become firmly embedded in popular culture around the world.
Review: Invictus (12A)
ON February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he re-entered a country divided by apartheid.
Princess and the Frog is return to Disney of old
WITH the aid of continually improving computer gadgetry, we all know that drawing film cartoons by hand is a skill long confined to movie history. Wrong!
