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Film review: Scooby-Doo’s Franken Creepy

Halloween would have not been so without a spooky film we saw during the half term.  We went to Warner Bros HQ’s for an exclusive Halloween screening of Scooby-Doo’s  Franken Creepy which was a great new film for kids and adults alike  – that is if you are a cartoon fanatic like me! The event started with spooky activities including biscuit decorating, face painting and balloon…
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Future Films Heads Up: SHAUN THE SHEEP THE MOVIE Sneak Preview on new DVD

If you simply can’t wait for Shaun The Sheep:The Movie – and it’s not due in cinemas until February 2015, so who can blame you? – then here’s a way of getting an exclusive sneak peek.  Better still, it comes complete with some of the best adventures from the nation’s favourite woolly jumper! Shaun The Sheep: Season’s Bleatings is the latest DVD from the world’s…
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Future Films Heads Up: SELMA, the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight to secure voting rights for African-Americans

A new historical movie has been announced. SELMA, the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for African-Americans, will open in cinemas on 6 February next year. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of this pivotal moment in the US Civil Rights Movement. The Cast David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth and Oprah Winfrey SELMA stars British actor…
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Future Films Heads Up: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

With WW2 celebrations under way this new movie Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view.  A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and…
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Future Films Heads Up: Get Santa - all British cast for a very London Christmas!

This Christmas, Warner Bros. Pictures brings you GET SANTA, a heartwarming quintessentially British Christmas comedy for the whole family.  Coming to cinemas in the UK & Ireland on 5th December 2014, GET SANTA boasts a cast of stellar British talent and is the perfect way to get ready for the festive season. The Cast GET SANTA stars national treasure Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter film series)…
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Film review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Days are getting chillier and a family trip to the cinema is a great alternative to having the the house trashed with crazy indoor entertainment. Disney comes to the rescue with this comedy that will probably remain memorable for its least memorable title Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. BAD DAY – Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Zoey/Elise Vargas, Kerris Dorsey…
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Top 5 Tips to Chillax and Forget our FoMo

Talking in acronyms is a hideous habit and one that teenagers have picked up quite quickly. I am a linguist and love languages in their purity and beauty. But there’s one acronym that so much summarises my own frequent state of mind that makes me want to use it abundantly: FoMo aka ‘fear of missing out’. Especially London Mums suffer from this condition. We live in a city that…
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Film review: The Maze Runner

The second half of this year has seen the arrival of a new genre at the cinema. The Y A movie.  Translated, this means films aimed at Young Adults, and they’ve all been based on successful books written for the same audience. The Fault In Our Stars, Divergent, If I Stay and, most recently, The Giver, are the most recent and some of them have been big hits at the box office, The Fault In Our…
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Future Films Heads Up: Hugh Bonneville's Paddington

The first sighting of Paddington was back in June – the big screen version of a certain Peruvian bear, that is.  Then there was all the kerfuffle surrounding the loss of his Colin Firth voice and its replacement by a Ben Whishaw one.  So, with the release date of 28 November creeping ever closer, a select group of film writers – me included! – was summonsed to a screening room in Soho…
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Why I loved Breaking Bad

Before telling you why I loved TV sensation series Breaking Bad, let me tell you that I am certainly not the target audience for this series – or at least I thought I wasn’t. I normally love girls’ movies, rom coms, comedies, live stories and period dramas (like the Paradise, Mr Selfridge, Downtown Abbey). But a friend kept talking to me about how great the scripts of Breaking…
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