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Film review: Chef

Time for the grown-ups to go to the movies.  Book the baby sitter, the table at your favourite eating house and the tickets for your local flix.  Chef is in town! Make sure that you visit the restaurant before you see it though, because this is a film about great food and Twitter.  The last thing you should do is see it on an empty stomach! The food, from a whole new menu to a more…
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Heads Up! Future Films: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

The apes are on their way back!  Part two of the latest Planet Of The Apes franchise opens next month and shows every sign of being the best of the lot. A packed screening room of journalists – including Yours Truly! – recently had a sneak preview of some footage from the forthcoming Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.  Even better, it was hosted by the master of motion capture acting, Andy…
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Future films heads up: Christmas 2014 Paddington movie

Just a heads up for a Christmas 2014 movie tipped to be THE big family film of Christmas – Paddington. From the producer of Harry Potter and Gravity and based on the best selling series of books by Michael Bond, as well as featuring an all-star cast (including Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi, Jim Broadbent and Nicole Kidman with Ben Whishaw as the voice of…
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Heads Up! Future Films: Earth To Echo

This year’s summer holiday line-up gets under way with a decidedly sci-fi theme.  Earth To Echo opens on 25th July,  telling the story of three friends whose mobile phones are infected by cryptic signals.  Convinced that something big is going on they go in search of the sender.  Check out the trailer to see what they find! Yes, the parallels with ET are clear for all to see, and…
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Film review: T S Spivet

If yet another film in 3-D makes you positively groan at the thought of those clunky glasses slipping down your nose, then here’s some great news.  Not about the glasses, sadly, but at long last there’s a film that makes putting up with them more than worthwhile. T S Spivet was released on Friday, 13 June 2014.  Not that it’s an omen.  Far from it.  This is the captivating story of T S…
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Movie stars: Kevin Spacey NOW: IN THE WINGS ON A WORLD STAGE

Kevin Spacey, Sam Mendes and the Bridge Project Company reveal some of the most intimate moments behind the scenes of their critically acclaimed staging of Richard III in NOW: IN THE WINGS ON A WORLD STAGE. It is released in cinemas on 9th June 2014. If you are a fan of Kevin Spacey, you know that he is not just a multi award winning actor, director and producer but also how brave he is in taking…
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Football Fever?! Time to chillax with Cocktails and movies - MUMS' ZONE!

Let’s face it! Mums do not have many ‘me time moments’ and when we do we truly make the most of them and we treasure them for a long time as we know that there won’t be another one for a while. And football fever is starting soon with kids and dads getting mad for footy… Well, the footaball season is the perfect time for mums to regain their balance, chillax and enjoy…
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Film review: Maleficent

The summer blockbuster season is almost upon us – How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Pudsey:The Movie will be among the more family-friendly offerings during the school holidays.  But as a warm up act, we have Disney’s much-awaited Maleficent, which is released today.  And they don’t much more stylish than that …… From the trailer it all looks rather dark, gothic…
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Heads up! Future films: Disney's Big Hero 6

There’s a brand new fun teaser trailer for Disney’s BIG HERO 6 out there. The film will be released in UK cinemas on 30th JANUARY 2015. Be sure London Mums will review the movie ahead of its release to let you know what both parents and children think about it. But from the animators from Frozen and Wreck-it-Ralph I only expect great things!   Trailer  Synopsis With all the…
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Film Review: Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is a 3D-animated musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. A continuation of one of the world’s most popular and beloved fairy tales, Legends of Oz finds Dorothy (Lea Michele) waking to post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the…
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