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Stars in their eyes: does Starsuckers hang the media out to dry?
By Natalie Peck
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2012
If you can suspend your disbelief as a man with two flying lessons under his belt pilots a jumbo jet and a family escapes a citywide inferno in a car then it makes for compelling viewing.
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The Boys Are Back
The Boys are Back sees Clive Owen striking out in a different direction from his usual repertoire of characters, refreshingly raw and stripped back with not a gun-tote or a stubble-stroke in sight
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Zac Efron
The High School Musical heartthrob is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand leading men. He talks about his career, island fun and his latest film.
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Me and Orson Welles
At times it can feel like the film is acting as a showcase for Efron, and goes too far in trying to prove a point although he holds his own, dispelling any doubt that he can competently perform outside of his familiar all-singing, all-dancing territory.
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Orphan
“There’s something wrong with Esther” reads the tag line to Orphan, the latest offering from House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra. Little girls with curly hair and dimples have never been so sinister.
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The Descent: Part 2
The film seems intent on covering the cast in as much mud, blood, and slime as possible, falling back on the conventions of gross-out cinema and abandoning the subtlety that made the first film so refreshing.
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Coco Before Chanel
To talk about Coco before the founding of Chanel seems somehow redundant, like writing a biopic of Scott that ends as he sets out for the Antarctic, or one of Churchill that ends with his first election to Parliament in 1900.
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Brüno
Baron Cohen certainly knows how to push buttons, his success largely based on the ability to exploit the fears and prejudices of those around him, and nowhere is it done better, or to such a sheer volume, than in Brüno.
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Public Enemies
Public Enemies, the latest offering from Michael Mann, pairs Hollywood stalwarts Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as men at opposing ends of the legal spectrum in a true-life Depression-era tale.
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ABOUT Natalie Peck
Natalie Peck is a journalist, lecturer and doctoral researcher at City University London. She has interviewed celebrities for a number of publications.