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Preview: Star Wars In Concert

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There are nerds, and there are uber nerds. There’s even a subset above them – the Star Wars nerds. And that top dog in the nerds stakes now gets its very own arena concert... Read more…

The Hurt Locker tops Oscars 2010

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Kathryn Bigelow made Oscars history today by becoming the first woman to win the best director award, describing her victory as “the moment of a lifetime”. Read more…

Interview: Johnny Depp

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Assembled in a grand ballroom, sitting beneath a picture of themselves having afternoon tea, the cast of Alice In Wonderland look suitably surreal. Read more…

Viva! Film Festival 2010

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Latino passions are set to run high when a month-long fiesta descends on the ‘corazón’ of Manchester. The beginning of next month sees the return of ¡Viva!, the annual Spanish and Latin American Film Festival taking place at Cornerhouse, Oxford Street, in association with Instituto Cervantes Manchester. Read more…

Interview: Benicio Del Toro

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Since he burst onto the big screen as the indecipherable, scene-stealing gangster, Fred Fenster, in The Usual Suspects, Puerto Rican actor, Benicio Del Toro - now star of The Wolfman - has proven to be a cinematic force. Read more…

Interview: Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon

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WHEN Clint Eastwood walks into the room, followed by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, ready to talk about their film Invictus, the sense of expectation is palpable. Read more…

Interview: Vera Farmiga

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VERA Farmiga plays confident businesswoman Alex in Up In The Air, who not only seduces commitment-phobe commuter Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), but plays him at his own game. Read more…

Interview: Viggo Mortensen

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VIGGO Mortensen looks tired and a little shabby, casually dressed with long, unwashed hair, clutching a woven wool bag on the table in front of him. He looks only slightly healthier than his character, The Father, in his new film The Road. Read more…

Salford college film project grabs international attention

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IT began as a college project by three mates in Salford. Now their horror-comedy film - funded by selling treasured possessions on eBay - has just premiered at a festival in New York. Paul Taylor reports. Read more…

Mancattan to be screened at Salford Film Festival

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TAKE two first-time film-makers from Manchester with a mutual interest in Woody Allen and you’re left with Mancattan – a highlight of the sixth Salford Film Festival, which begins today (November 20). Read more…

Local talent showcased by horror film festival

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THOUSANDS of zombies are set to invade The Printworks and the Arndale centre to mark the arrival of the city’s first ever horror film festival. The Grimm Up North event will be the second-largest festival of its kind in the country and runs from October 29 to November 1. Read more…

Must see: Festival Of Fantastic Films

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BILLING yourself as ‘the greatest weekend a science fiction, fantasy or horror movie fan could ever find on the planet’ is setting your own bar intimidatingly high, but the organisers of the Festival Of Fantastic Films are aiming to live up to their own hype... Read more…

Something for film buffs at Revolution

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SOMETHING That Needs Nothing is an evening of international short films and is the brainchild of two young and emerging film production groups - 'Blue Robot Films' and 'Pretend We Don't Exist'. It takes place tonight. Read more…

Tarantino happy turning history to pulp fiction

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KEVIN Bourke talks to the acclaimed director about his new movie, Inglourious Basterds. Read more…

Gunmen brought real terror to movie crew

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IT was the daring film shoot which ended up rivalling the deadly action being captured for the big screen. Simon Donohue speaks to the Bolton film-makers behind Kandahar Break – a brand new escape drama set in Afghanistan. Read more…

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The Hurt Locker tops Oscars 2010

Olie V wrote: 1 day 9 hours ago

It looked like a token Cameron night was in store again, but instead the movie made by his ex-wife took top honors. The biggest Academy Award winners, at least if attention in the press is an indicator, were The Hurt Locker (Best Picture and Best Director) winning over Avatar. The wins for other awards were fairly quiet – as Jeff Bridges win on his fifth nomination for Best Actor was conspicuous, as was Christoph Waltz taking Best Supporting Actor, the first Oscar win for an actor in a …

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Preview: Star Wars In Concert

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There are nerds, and there are uber nerds. There’s even a subset above them – the Star Wars nerds. And that top dog in the nerds stakes now gets its very own arena concert...

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