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Heavy Water - A Film For Chernobyl
Released on: 25 June 2007
Review: On April 26th 1986 reactor four at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded sending an enormous radioactive cloud over northern Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus. The danger is not immediately communicated and the local population go about their business as usual. May Day celebrations begin children play and the residents of Pripyat the town built to house the workers at Chernobyl marvel at the spectacular fire raging at the reactor |
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Brighton Rock [1947]
Released on: 16 September 2002
Review: Hard to imagine now but long before Richard Attenborough became Lord Dickie, benevolent patriarch of British moviedom, he specialised in playing weaselly little thugs and punks. Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene's classic novel, offered him one of his best early roles as Pinkie, juvenile leader of a seedy gang of racetrack crooks in the Sussex seaside town. |
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The Virgin Suicides
Released on: 04 December 2000
Review: Sophia Coppola's alternately dreamy and unsettling film about five suburban sisters who all mysteriously kill themselves (the voice-over tells you as much in the first five minutes) casts a witchy spell that lingers like drugstore perfume on a hot day. Beautifully adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' icily perfect novel (perhaps the best, if not only, work of fiction narrated exclusively in the first-person plural), the 1970s-set film is constructed as the collective memory of the neighbourhood boys who worshipped the beautiful Lisbon girls |
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The Pianist
Released on: 05 January 2004
Review: Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. |
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Beyond Hatred
Released on: 16 April 2007
Review: Because he admitted his homosexuality Franois Chenu age 29 was beaten to death by 3 skinheads and thrown into a pond on the night of September 13th 2002. His parents try to overcome their grief so that their fight for tolerance and respect for others can continue. Director Olivier Meyrou allows this immensely cathartic story to unfold at its own pace without unnecessary exposition or narration
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Notes On A Scandal
Released on: 04 June 2007
Review: Academy Award winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining Oscar-nominated performances - one as a woman consumed by her colleague's guilty secret the other a victim to her own dark obsessions - in this sexy stylish thriller. Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett a teacher who rules over her classroom with an iron fist yet leads a desperate solitary life outside it. That is until she meets radiant new art teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett) |
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24: Series 5
Released on: 06 November 2006
Review: 18 months have passed since the events of Day 4. With the exception of David Palmer Tony Almeida Michelle Dessler and Chloe O'Brian the world believes that Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is dead... Jack is in fact living under the name of Frank Flynn and conceals his identity by taking a manual job on an oil rig. However when President Logan is placed at the centre of a labyrinthine conspiracy involving the signing of a vital U.S. - Russian arms treaty Jack is forced back into action! |
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