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    Dec 04 2013
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    Review: Diana, Runner Runner, Camille Claudel 1915, Prisoners, Austenland, About Time and Captain Phillips

    By Dan Cinema, Reviews
    Apart from the inescapable need to carve out a meagre living from an uncaring world, one of the reasons why these weekly updates have been something less than, well, weekly…
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    Nov 27 2013
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    Cinematica 5/07: Down & Dirty

    By Dan Audio, Cinematica
    This week we get dirty. Really dirty. (Not The Counselor-dirty – we're not animals) No, we get stuck in to Mud and Filth and, of course, we also run the…
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    Nov 21 2013
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    Nine to Noon: Thanks for Sharing and Valley of Saints

    By Dan Audio, Cinema
    A quick trip around the movies of the day with yours truly, grilled affably by Kathryn Ryan.
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    Nov 21 2013
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    Cinematica 5/06: “Carrie doesn’t live here, anymore.”

    By Dan Audio, Cinematica
    Chloe Grace Moretz is Carrie in the new remake from Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and we do a quick run-down…
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    Nov 13 2013
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    Cinematica 5/05: “We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.”

    By Dan Audio, Cinematica
    Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and…
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    Nov 12 2013
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    Review: Gravity, Mr. Pip, Grown Ups 2, Battle of the Year 3D and 2 Guns

    By Dan Cinema, Reviews
      Is Gravity the first really new film of the 21st Century? I hazard it may be. It is certainly the first to harness the bleeding edge of the current…
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