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/ 19 December 2006
The true story of Homer’s space odyssey, which inspired October Sky, may leave you with tears in your eyes, says Philip French.
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/ 19 December 2006
It is not often that a spin-doctor gets lauded by the media for being "honest". The two concepts seem inherently contradictory. However, when Joel Netshitenzhe left his position as head of Government Communication and Information Services to head the policy unit in the Presidency full time, journalists wrote glowing articles about his integrity. Libby Lloyd interviewed him.
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/ 21 September 2001
b>Creature feature of the week: </b> Johnston has dispensed almost entirely with lyrical wonder and concentrated on horror and violence, the result is a dark, almost morbid picture that is unsuitable for younger children and squeamish adults, writes Philip French.
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/ 19 January 2001
When the end credits of <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> began to roll at Cannes, I at first thought the applause and cheering for this Scandinavian musical, made in Sweden and Denmark in a form of English, to be ironic. How could anyone have admired or been moved by this tedious, banal, incompetent movie?
<b>Review: Pushing Tin</b>
<b>Review: Toy Story 2</b>
Dysfunctional families and child abuse have obsessed film-makers this past couple of years and they provided the subject matter for the movies that shared the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998, Claude Miller’s Class Trip and Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (Celebration). These are, however, markedly different works. Miller’s picture is an elegant thriller, Vinterberg’s a […]