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The Muppets are back to their best with new film

Carl Jones reviews The Muppets, a film has the gang back to doing what they do best – producing good, wholesome, family entertainment for the school half-term holidays.

The Muppets are back to their best with new film

The Muppets

For more than 35 years, Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and their fun-loving friends have been firmly ingrained in our rose-tinted childhood memories with their slapstick routines and song and dance numbers.

The Muppets

The Woman In Black

Less is certainly more in The Woman In Black, a chilling film version of the celebrated novel by Susan Hill, which has been re-imagined as a television movie, a radio series and a hit stage play in the 30 years since its publication.

The Woman In Black
The Vow

For some brides, a fairy-tale waltz up the aisle turns out to be a day they would rather forget.

The Vow

Big Miracle

In 1988, countries came together in a rare demonstration of solidarity to free three grey whales stranded in the pack ice near Barrow Point in Alaska.

Big Miracle

A Dangerous Method

Let's talk about sex. Screenwriter Christopher Hampton does so with arch detachment in A Dangerous Method, an artfully composed portrait of intellectual one-upmanship adapted from his 2002 stage play, The Talking Cure.

A Dangerous Method

Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace looks better than ever in 3D

Dave Burrows reports from the London premiere of the first 3D Star Wars film which opened at Shropshire cinemas today

Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace looks better than ever in 3D

Carnage – Film review

Watch Carl Jones’s video review of Carnage, Roman Polanski’s new film where two sets of parents battle it out after their sons are involved in a fight.

Carnage – Film review

Chronicle

As weakling Peter Parker discovered to his cost before his transformation into web-spinning superhero Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility.

Chronicle

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D

When the going gets tough, the tough get soppy in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, an old-fashioned, gung-ho adventure based loosely on Jules Verne.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D

Carnage

Director Roman Polanski strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beasts and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries in this film version of the award-winning stage comedy God Of Carnage.

Carnage

Jack And Jill

In the popular 18th century nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill went up a hill and took a tumble as they fetched a pail of water.

Jack And Jill

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