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Anne Fontaine’s stylish but tedious biopic about the iconic fashion designer chooses to busy itself with the duller parts of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s life. The more interesting aspects of this remarkable woman’s road to become one of the most famous names in elegant couture are confined to brief montages and rushed scenes thrown in at [...]

Why should anyone want to see a movie about a loud, uncouth and miserable teenage girl, who’s vocabulary seems to only consist of four letter words? Oscar winner Andrea Arnold is hoping her audience will get past this tricky question, and faithfully turn out to see her complex, depressing yet, paradoxically, life-affirming new film set [...]

By Barnaby Walter. My goodness – this is the feel good film of the year. It had me laughing out loud all the way through. Just so joyful, funny and life affirming and makes you glad to be alive. This is an absolute hoot. Watching a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son wander around [...]

By Barnaby Walter What a year it was. 2009 brought us some of the best films and TV shows we’d seen for a long time. So here’s my judgement of what were the greatest, most memorable examples of film and television of last year. Each category has a winner, with a selection of others who [...]

By Barnaby Walter I’m glad to be back with Disc Roundup after my Christmas break. Over the festive season I was sad to see David Tennant go as The Doctor, but he went on a strong episode, and this week you can buy a shiny-packaged set of all of 2009’s Doctor Who Specials on Blu-ray [...]

G.E.O Club Monthly Awareness Article (January) The time has come, 2010 is here. What the year will hold is a complete and utter mystery. But I do know one thing, we will all now be thinking about those all important new year’s resolutions. For many people these will include aspects such as loosing weight, quitting [...]

By Barnaby Walter Finally, after over a year’s wait, we’re reunited with our favourite team of body cutters – Leo, Nicky and Harry. But in this week’s opening two-part story, things are not going too well in the pathology lab. Harry’s in love with a women who’s caught up in the case they’re working on. [...]

By Barnaby Walter Nancy Meyer’s continues to spread her charming, joyful humour with a typically gentle romcom. As ever with her films, this features actors a little older than those you’d expect to find in a mainstream romantic comedy, and all the houses look enviably divine. Meryl Streep plays a divorced, posh-cafe owner who lives [...]

By Barnaby Walter James Cameron’s expensive, explosive and long-awaited sci-fi epic has finally hit the cinemas. And it isn’t very good. Of course, there’s a lot of swooping shots of the glorious world of Pandora, the planet that humans need to plunder for their valuable deposits of the ludicrously named, but highly valuable, “unobtanium”. But [...]

By Barnaby Walter It’s rather fun. I didn’t think I would like it, and was very ready to hate it, but Guy Ritchie’s new big screen effort featuring the iconic sleuth is generally good entertainment. But, as ever with dear Guy, there are still problems. In this slick adventure, Holmes and Watson try to solve [...]