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Film Review: Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Blockbusters will rule at the cinema this summer.  I’ll be previewing them for London Mums in a few weeks’ time but, in the meantime, warm up acts don’t come much bigger than this – Avengers: Age Of Ultron.  It opens this Thursday, 23 April 2015, certificate 12A. After being at the helm for both this and the first film in the Marvel series, Avengers Assemble (2012), director and writer…
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Gardens on the Big Screen

Rockwork Grove, a garden in one of the most famous Palaces in the world, Versailles, is taking centre stage in Alan Rickman’s upcoming film A Little Chaos. Taking inspiration from the enchanting gardens in the film we look back at the gardens which have made an impression on screen. A Little Chaos Kate Winslet stars as landscape architect Madame Sabine De Barra who is tasked with creating the…
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Future Films heads up: Disney new film Zootropolis (March 2016)

WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS has recently announced the release of a new movie called Zootropolis due to hit UK cinemas on 25th March 2016.  The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what…
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Film Review: The Last Five Years

Spoiler alert!  It’s almost impossible to review new musical, The Last Five Years, without at least one and that’s because you know the end of the story right from the very start. But, as long as you can handle that, you’re in for an unashamedly romantic hour and a half, with lots of songs and very little in the way of dialogue.  Will it tug at your heart strings?  London Mums’ film…
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Film Review: A Little Chaos

Introducing the romantic leading man for this spring.  Matthias Schoenaerts.  If the name doesn’t jangle any bells, you may have seen the Belgian actor last month as a musical German officer in World War II romance, Suite Francaise.  He’s back again next month as one of Carey Mulligan’s suitors in the re-make of Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd.  As of this week, however, he’s a…
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Future Films heads up: A ROYAL NIGHT OUT

Lionsgate UK will release A ROYAL NIGHT OUT in cinemas across the UK on 15 May 2015. Inspired by true events, A Royal Night Out is a heart-warming and riotous tale of the Queen witnessing the energy and spirit on this unique night. The story VE Day, 1945. Across Europe, people are celebrating the end of the war. London overflows with celebration and excess. Two teenage princesses are allowed out…
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Film review: Woman in Gold

Woman in Gold is a very inspirational and touching movie based on a true story about WW2 on a subject that has never received much attention so far: the retrieval of precious artwork unjustly stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families. It’s the journey of a Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (played by Helen Mirren) who fights to get her aunt’s  famous painting ‘The Lady in Gold&#8217…
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Film Review: While We’re Young

Fans of indie films will probably recognise the name Noah Baumbach, the writer/director of slices of pure pleasure like The Squid And The Whale (2005) and, more recently, Frances Ha (2012).  Now he’s taken a leaf out of fellow director Wes Anderson’s book (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom) and made the leap from indie cinema to the mainstream. His first film for the mass market…
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Future Films Heads Up: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

If you are a superheros’ movie fan, brace yourself as a new Avengers film has been announced. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON will hit UK CINEMAS on 23RD APRIL 2015 starring a stellar cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård with…
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ROALD DAHL’S ESIO TROT: Exclusive interview with London Mum & film producer Hilary Susan Bevan Jones

Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is an amazing tale and its television adaptation, which was viewed on New Year’s Day by over 6.7 million people, could not have been better with stars such as Dustin Hoffman (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Quartet) as lovely Mr. Hoppy, and Dame Judi Dench (Skyfall, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) as lively Mrs. Silver. We had the honour to talk to film producer Hilary…
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