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Juno
Mon, 23 Jun 2008
First time screenwriter, Diablo Cody, scoops both BAFTA and Oscar for her script for smash hit Juno – and our reviewer Owain Gillard, thinks it’s quite right too.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mon, 4 Feb 2008
The camera darts through the twilight of Tim Burton’s Gothic London like a thing possessed. Dockside stands a pale and prematurely aged man, his tousled hair dark but for a streak of white. This is Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) - formerly Benjamin Barker, barber extraordinaire - and he’s back in London town with a vengeance after serving fifteen years for a crime he didn’t commit - a cruel fate dished out by the villainous Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) in a bid to make Todd’s beautiful wife Lucy and his young daughter Johanna his own.
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Babel
Wed, 21 Feb 2007
A pair of younger eyes see the good in Babel - we asked enterprising sixth form student critic, Jamie Jackson-Ritchie, to cast his eye over one of the Best Picture Oscar contenders this year.
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United 93
Mon, 19 Feb 2007
Screenwriter Graham Stokhuyzen lifts the lid on United 93 to find a work of surprising dramatic subtlety …
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Intermission
Sun, 18 Feb 2007
Trevor Johnston finds much to admire in Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe’s darkly funny screenplay for Intermission.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tue, 20 Dec 2005
In his latest film, director Mike Newell takes our young hero on journey of possession, repression and demonic reincarnation. Screenwriter Graham Stokhuyzen takes a closer look at the growing pains of Harry Potter, aged 14…
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