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Daniel Brühl stars in hostage thriller Entebbe

Review – Hostage thriller ‘Entebbe’ gets bogged down in reaching for innovation

22/05/201824/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ben Schnetzer, Certificate: 12, Daniel Brühl, Drama, Eddie Marsan, Entebbe, José Padilha, Lior Ashkenazi, May 2018, Nonso Anozie, Rating: Pop, Rosamund Pike, Thriller

Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike play German hijackers in true story thriller Entebbe, which follows a shocking real event from 1976.

Melissa McCarthy in Life of the Party and Johnny Depp in Sherlock Gnomes

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 105 – Is Melissa McCarthy less funny than an animated garden gnome?

21/05/201821/05/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Bohemian Rhapsody, Coralie Fargeat, Daniel Brühl, Entebbe, Life of the Party, Melissa McCarthy, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Podcast, Revenge, Rosamund Pike, Sherlock Gnomes, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Zombieland 2

Life of the Party is bizarrely terrible, while Sherlock Gnomes is just bizarre. We also review hostage thriller Entebbe and French horror Revenge.

Christian Bale stars in western Hostiles

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Review – Hostiles

10/01/201815/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ben Foster, Certificate: 15, Christian Bale, Hostiles, January 2018, Jesse Plemons, Peter Mullan, Rating: Pop, Rory Cochrane, Rosamund Pike, Scott Cooper, Stephen Lang, Timothée Chalamet, Wes Studi, Western

Christian Bale delivers his best performance in years in Hostiles, which combines brutal violence and a thoughtful approach to the Western.

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike in romance A United Kingdom

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Review – A United Kingdom

10/12/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2016, A United Kingdom, Amma Asante, British, Certificate: 12, David Oyelowo, Drama, Historical, Jack Davenport, Jack Lowden, Nicholas Lyndhurst, November 2016, Rating: Pop, Romance, Rosamund Pike, Terry Pheto, Tom Felton, Vusi Kunene

Amma Asante conjures up a sweeping romance against the backdrop of complex racial politics.

Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt star in wartime romance Allied

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 32 – Is Allied more than just tabloid gossip fodder?

08/12/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment A United Kingdom, Allied, Amma Asante, Bad Santa 2, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Dee Williams, Brad Pitt, David Oyelowo, Detective Pikachu, Disney, Marion Cotillard, Podcast, Pokemon, Rob Letterman, Robert Zemeckis, Rosamund Pike, The Lego Batman Movie, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast

It’s a battle of the historical romances on this week’s Popcorn Muncher Podcast.

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Bond Reloaded – A look back at Die Another Day (2002)

23/10/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2002, Action, Bond, Bond Reloaded, Die Another Day, Halle Berry, James Bond, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Lee Tamahori, Pierce Brosnan, Rick Yune, Rosamund Pike, Samantha Bond, Spy, Thriller, Toby Stephens

The latest Bond Reloaded retrospective takes a look at Pierce Brosnan’s final outing as James Bond, Die Another Day.

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Oscars 2015 – Snubs, shocks and surprises from the Oscar nominations

15/01/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 87th Academy Awards, Angelina Jolie, Ava DuVernay, Awards Season 2015, Birdman, Boyhood, Cake, Damien Chazelle, David Oyelowo, Foxcatcher, Gone Girl, Inherent Vice, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Aniston, Marion Cotillard, Mark Ruffalo, Mr Turner, Nightcrawler, Oscars, Oscars 2015, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Roger Deakins, Rosamund Pike, Selma, Steve Carell, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Timothy Spall, Two Days One Night, Unbroken, Whiplash

The nominations for Oscars 2015 have been announced. But what are the biggest snubs, surprise inclusions and shock omissions?

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Review – What We Did On Our Holiday

07/10/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, Amelia Bullmore, Andy Hamilton, Ben Miller, Billy Connolly, Bobby Smalldridge, British, Celia Imrie, Certificate: 12, Comedy, David Tennant, Emilia Jones, Guy Jenkin, Harriet Turnbull, Rating: Poop, Rosamund Pike, September 2014, What We Did On Our Holiday

Review of 2014 family comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, starring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly.

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Review – Gone Girl

06/10/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, Adaptation, Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon, Certificate: 18, David Fincher, Gone Girl, Kim Dickens, Mystery, Neil Patrick Harris, October 2014, Rating: Pop, Rosamund Pike, Thriller, Tyler Perry

Review of 2014 mystery thriller Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

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Review – Hector and the Search for Happiness

24/08/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, August 2014, Certificate: 15, Christopher Plummer, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Peter Chelsom, Rating: Poop, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Stellan Skarsgård, Toni Collette

Review of 2014 dramedy Hector and the Search for Happiness, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

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Review: The World’s End

21/07/2013 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2013, Bill Nighy, Certificate: 15, Comedy, David Bradley, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Martin Freeman, Michael Smiley, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Rating: 10/10, Reece Shearsmith, Rosamund Pike, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steve Oram, The World's End, Three Flavours Cornetto

Review of 2013 comedy film The World’s End, which is the final entry in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. It is directed and co-written by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg (also co-writing) and Nick Frost.