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Attended this premiere of a documentary that explores the perceptions of Arab people in the UK. Made by a local guy, he travels around the country interviewing people about how they feel Arabs are potrayed etc as well as their feelings about being integrated or not into communities in the UK. It was an interesting idea and full points for getting a movie made and screened, but I found it overlong (90mins) an hour would have been better and as it was mostly talking heads it got kinda dull by the end – there’s a series planned so hopefully some of these issues will be addressed later on, be interesting to see what happens – some intriguing ideas to follow.

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Norman is back.
Ok it took 22 years before he was released and starred in this sequel but it was worth the wait. I remember going to the movies to see this in Bradford at the ABC and although it’s maybe not the best film in the world I love that house… Perkins is great as Norman and the soundtrack is especially creepy around the edges.

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Halle Berry does Catwoman. This is an ‘origin’ movie that is a little different plotwise to the DC Comics versions but as an action movie is ok. There’s loads of CGI stuff and although the acting is a little hokey at times – this wasn’t as bad as I expected! Think comic book and it’s ok stuff. One weird thing was that Halle Berry does seem to be coloured to match the CGI rather than the other way around… intertesting approach.

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Caught this again at a late show…
Looked really carefully for the forest but still no luck…

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This is a great movie. It’s a kind of mid-life crisis road movie, with wine tasting.
It’s one of those rare treats that’s a great movie and doesn’t pretend to be anything more than that. Well deserved of the recent Oscar nominations etc – let’s hope it does well…

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Yeah.
Went with Andycam – it’s funnier the second time…
“I’m so ronely, I’m so ronely…”

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Sandra Bullock stars as a hard nose detective in this formula crime thriller. I had seen the first half of this last year so was keen to catch the end (not that I couldn’t work it out!). It’s a genre movie that has a couple of smart (but annoying) teenagers who think they can plan the perfect murder and then come up again Sandra the detective who works it out… including the obligatory cliff top ending – literally in this case. Not too bad – if you like genre crime thrillers, easy and unchallenging.

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John found this movie in the sale at WHSmith whilst we were doing the Costa Coffee thing and looking for stuff to spend Christmas Gift Vouchers on. The description made us both laugh so we got it. The plot follows a cheerleader who goes out with the quarterback from the football team at high school who is sent to a place called ‘True Directions’ by her parents who suspect she is a lesbian (this is news to the cheerleader!). It’s a sexual re-orientation camp that has the opposite effect. This is a great movie that handles the subject well and turns out a funny film from an idea that could have so easily gone the other way…

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