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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By-the-numbers old age comedy drama

(2 stars)10 Feb 2012

Early in this by-the-numbers comedy drama, a young salesperson eagerly enthuses to retiring couple Douglas (Bill Nighy) and Jean (Penelope Wilton) that 'the grey pound is very strong at the moment'. We’re quite clearly supposed to see this…

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Gothic yet modern adaptation helped by excellent performances

(4 stars)19 Aug 2011

(PG) 120min The latest adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic book demonstrates that great texts can have many different interpretations. Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) dumps the childhood chapters, makes insinuations as to the cruel…

Wetherby

Wetherby

Intriguing and engrossing 1984 mystery drama with to-die-for cast

(4 stars)12 Jan 2011

(15) 99min (Park Circus) National treasure David Hare remains best known for his award-feted plays (Plenty, The Blue Room) and his screenwriting (The Hours, The Reader), but he’s also an assured director, as is evidenced by this intriguing and…

Nine

Nine

(3 stars)17 Dec 2009

(12A) 120min Federico Fellini always made such extravagant films that it’s no surprise that they’ve proved ripe for song. Nights of the Cabiria was the first to be reinvented, becoming the Broadway hit Sweet Charity, before the legendary Bob Cabaret…

Judi Dench

Judi Dench fears death

Celebrity Gossip

12 Dec 2009

Dame Judi Dench is worried about dying. The 75-year-old actress, who stars in new musical movie 'Nine', admits her mortality is always on her mind now she is older. She said: "I think about dying all the time but I push it to the back of my mind.

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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(2 stars) Despite an irresistible army of pension-age talent including Dench, Smith and Wilkinson, all on excellent form, this story about a group of unconnected British retirees who come to the titular hotel in Jaipur and find resolution for their various issues and challenges, feels too calculated to offer anything more than disposable entertainment at best, and cheaply manipulative emotional kicks at worst.
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Mrs Brown
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Queen Victoria's obsessive mourning for Prince Albert is casting gloom over the entire country, so Highland ghillie John Brown is called down from Balmoral to shake up the stuffy English court. Madden's film can't match the comic brio and visual panache of 'The Madness of King George', but his understated direction undeniably suits the story. The performances are uniformly splendid, with Dench and Connolly (both perfectly cast) giving the film a surprising emotional depth.
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2 Jun–3 Jun Sat 11am; Sun 7.30pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness