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The Dark Knight Rises

Action franchises are often fraught with difficulties (witness Matrix Revolutions and Speed II as just two examples). So, no matter the pedigree of the director (Christopher Nolan) and his ability to produce cerebral action films, there was always a chance that Dark Knight Rises could be a Batman film too far.

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John Hughes Pyjama Party

12 hours, two cans of Red Bull, no sleep (aside from one power nap) and two bathroom breaks later and 3OW is walking out onto Leicester Square at 8am on a cold February Sunday morning. So what gives? What would drive a person to push the limits of human endurance?

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Hope Springs

After 31 years together, Kay (Meryl Streep) is having nagging doubts about her marriage to uber-grouch Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) and manages to get him on a plane to visit a marriage counsellor (Steve Carell) in (you’ve guessed it) Hope Springs

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SNL Hearts Hollywood

Saturday Night Live is on a roll right now with it’s biting satirical swipes at the minefield of US politics. And yes, 3OW is enjoying them poking fun at the train wreck that is Trump’s administration right. But there will always be a place in our hearts for SNL’s loving swipes at the movies.

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Easy A

Emma Stone is definitely an actress to keep your eye on. Having cut her ‘comedy’ teeth early with supporting roles in Super Bad and the excellent Zombieland, she now moves on to this lead role – and boy does she deliver!

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The King’s Speech

I was lucky enough to be one of the first people in the UK to see it when it premiered at 2010’s London Film Festival and got a standing ovation. The momentum of the film began with it’s premier at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and it continued to build right through LFF and then on to it’s UK release in early January 2011.

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