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[12 Oct 2011 | Written by Rick Limentani | No Comment | 177 views]
New Play comes to Canterbury and Folkestone

Freedom will be at the Gulbenkian Theatre on the 3rd of November, and the Quarterhouse in Folkestone on the 19th November.
Rick Limentani has made some unusual choices. After graduating from Cambridge University, he left a successful career for a blue-chip consultancy in the city to become a struggling artist, studying film-making in Paris. Over the past ten years he has risen to prominance as a screenwriter, winning international awards, and has also directed short films shown in festivals around the world. Now, after completing a new short film in Spain …

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[20 Jan 2009 | Written by James Gordon | No Comment | 709 views]
Role Models

Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in ‘Role Models’ as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fuelled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: Jail, or spend 150 hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn’t look half bad. Once the center’s ex-con director (Jane Lynch) gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their charges, Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson). …

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[10 Dec 2008 | Written by Caroline Elvin | No Comment | 577 views]
Four Christmases Review

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn team up for a festive comedy about a couple that have to visit four different parents as a result of divorce. The director, Seth Gordon is well known for films such as ‘The King of Kong: A Fistful of quarters’ but has chosen to move into a more narrative territory with this film.
After couple Brad and Kate’s holiday plans were changed due to airline trouble, they were forced to see all of their parents over Christmas. However, in the process of doing so, they find …

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[25 Oct 2008 | Written by Caroline Elvin | No Comment | 848 views]
Burn After Reading Review

The Coen brothers – Joel and Ethan are known for making classics, such as ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘Fargo’ and although this film is of an acceptable effort, it has some funny jokes and has big stars such as George Clooney and Brad Pitt staring in it – I cannot imagine it will be up for any awards any time soon.
The plot is very basic – two gormless gym instructors (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) come across some ex CIA memoirs, after this event takes place, many quite …

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[19 Sep 2008 | Written by Caroline Elvins | No Comment | 1,273 views]
Tropic Thunder Review

Ben Stiller has acted in some excellent, witty, clever and funny films – this is not one of them.
This film is also directed by Ben Stiller and is a clear attempt to do something different – even if it is an unsuccessful attempt. The film’s plot start with a group of actors, all about to play a part in a highly funded war film, however, their personalities get in the way, and the fact that they are all self-obsessed stops them from working effectively, in a rather random turn of …