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After seeing WALL-E at the weekend I have to once again salute the geniuses at Pixar for creating another extraordinary animated film.

Set in a dystopian future circa 2815, it is about a waste disposal robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) who meets another robot named EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) and gets involved in [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk in recent years and months about the death of the film critic, the wider future of journalism and how advertising will work as print declines and publications go even further down the online route.
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft recently spoke to the Washington Post about the future of media and [...]

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I saw Iron Man last night and I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t open really big this weekend.
If you aren’t familiar with the character, it is one of the few remaining Marvel heroes who hasn’t made it to the big screen in the last decade.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jnr) is a billionaire industrialist and [...]

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I remember last year seeing a poster in Cannes for 88 Mins - the Al Pacino thriller that has just opened in the US to universally awful reviews.
At the time I assumed it was one of the many promotional posters that adorn the Croisette during the festival, but it was actually one for the local [...]

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Tom McCarthy made one of the best films of 2003 with The Station Agent and his latest The Visitor is just as good.
The story involves a college professor (Richard Jenkins) who finds a young immigrant couple living in his New York apartment.
It then follows the characters as they connect with one another in unexpected ways.
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