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Affleck mocks Oscars as he wins Critics Choice
“I’d like to thank the Academy,” joked Ben Affleck as he collected his Critics Choice Award for Best Director for Argo, on the same day that he was unexpectedly snubbed for a nomination…
Jessica Chastain
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Zero Dark Thirty triumphs at the National Board of – Review awards
Zero Dark Thirty, which dramatises the events leading to the killing of Osama Bin Laden, won the best picture of 2012 at the National Board of Review awards.
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Lawless
Director: John Hillcoat - Writers: Matt Bondurant (Book), Nick Cave (Screenplay) - Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, Dane DeHaan, Jason Clarke, Noah Taylor…
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Coriolanus
Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes) is a fearsome Roman general whose convincing victory over Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) see him rise to political power. He's honoured with a new title, Coriolanus
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Melancholia tops National Society critics awards
Months after being thrown out of Cannes for his controversial comments about being able to identify with Hitler, the Danish director Lars von Trier has won the top prize handed out by…
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Take Shelter, Beginners and Drive among Spirit nominees
Next year's celebration of American independent cinema, the beach-front Spirit Awards, will feature a range of highly regarded films including Take Shelter, Beginners, Drive and the upcoming The Artist and The Descendants.
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Take Shelter
Quarry worker Curtis (Michael Shannon) lives in a modest home in a blue collar neighbourhood in Ohio, with his doting wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart)
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The Help
In the early 1960s, ambitious young journalist Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns home to Jackson, Mississippi from college and manages to get a job at the local paper - but only writing a…
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The Debt
In Israel in 1997, author Sarah (Romi Aboulafia) is about to publish a book about her mother Rachel’s (Helen Mirren) exploits as a Mossad agent, thirty years earlier.
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The Tree of Life
In the beginning, God created the universe. Then he made stars and planets. Then he put life on earth - not sure about other planets, but certainly on earth, as we see…