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Film review: The Princess And The Frog (U)

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

In an extraordinary career, producer Walt Disney redefined the boundaries of hand-drawn animation.

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Film review: Astro Boy (PG)

5:39pm Friday 5th February 2010

The iconic figure of Astro Boy takes flight in a new computer-animated adventure directed by David Bowers, with a storyline that puts a futuristic spin on the classic tale of Pinocchio.

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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 discovered a country divided by apartheid.

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Film review: Edge Of Darkness (15)

4:42pm Friday 29th January 2010

AWARD-WINNING, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood.

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Film review: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire (15)

4:45pm Friday 29th January 2010

AN average of 60 children are sexually abused in Britain every single day.

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Film review: Adoration (15)

4:48pm Friday 29th January 2010

Toronto high school student Simon is still haunted by the death of his parents in a car accident many years ago and the young man struggles to understand why the universe chose to take them from him.

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Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

6:08pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the emotionally devastating memoir of Simon Carr.

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Film review: Ninja Assassin (18)

6:05pm Friday 22nd January 2010

The title of James McTeigue’s martial arts action adventure succinctly sums up the vicarious thrills of this chopsocky nonsense.

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Film review: Brothers (15)

3:55pm Thursday 21st January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama, Brodre, love is war as two siblings — polar opposites — are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.