17 Again
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Curse those confounded expectations: this airbrushed Zac Efron vehicle is really not so bad. Crucially, it showcases a performance by the High School Musical moppet that is so warm and winning it almost made me want to revisit those earlier button-eyed, song-and-dance antics.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 10, 2009
Pongy Robert Pattinson isn't Hollywood's only smelly actor
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Robert Pattinson is probably used to seeing members of the opposite sex swoon. The pulchritudinous star of teen-vampire-romance Twilight was recently voted 2008's sexiest male, by readers of Hello magazine's website. But according to E! News, Pattinson's female co-stars may be reeling for another reason: he stinks.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 26, 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 12, 2008
Angry Hollywood actors star in strike sequel
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Welcome to Strike 2008 - the sequel. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the negotiating room, the Hollywood unions and their studio paymasters have devised a new dispute to threaten an already precarious industry.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: June 29, 2008
The Boss of it All
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The Boss of it All (99 mins, 15)Directed by Lars von Trier; starring Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Iben Hjejle
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 03, 2008
Greg Dyke to chair BFI
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Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC who resigned in the wake of the Hutton Enquiry, has been appointed chair of the British Film Institute. He takes over from Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient and Cold Mountain, whose tenure saw the launch of the new BFI Southbank centre in London.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 15, 2008
The Heartbreak Kid
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The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while. Breaking out the bad taste and the political incorrectness in generous measure, they keep the laughs coming. It's a cheerfully immature reworking of the 1972 movie scripted by Neil Simon and directed by Elaine May: a regular guy finds his soulmate while on honeymoon - having married someone else. And that someone else is turning out to be a nightmare. Stiller plays Eddie, a guy who has just turned 40 and rushes into marriage with the sexy Lila (Malin Akerman); she only reveals her dark side while they're on honeymoon in Mexico. Then he finds a connection with sweet, sane Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), a single woman who is on holiday at the same resort with her extended family. There are no awards here for profundity, and some of the bad-taste stuff is pretty stomach-turning. But you certainly get hosed down with a stream of gags - of, erm, varying sorts. This, as they say, is professional showbusiness come
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: January 09, 2008
