Written by Julia Collins
Published on 02 Apr 2010
The Blind Side tells the true story of pro American footballer Michael Oher who, as a black Memphis teenager, is adopted by the Tuohys, a wealthy white couple who encourage his sporting ability.
Oher is a giant young man from the wrong side of the tracks with intelligence and strong protective instincts. He ends up at the same school as the Tuohys’ children and when he is found wandering in the rain one night without a home to go to Leigh-Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) offers him a place to sleep and he ends up staying with her family permanently.
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Written by Julia Collins
Published on 02 Apr 2010
The Blind Side tells the true story of pro American footballer Michael Oher who, as a black Memphis teenager, is adopted by the Tuohys, a wealthy white couple who encourage his sporting ability.
Oher is a giant young man from the wrong side of the tracks with intelligence and strong protective instincts. He ends up at the same school as the Tuohys’ children and when he is found wandering in the rain one night without a home to go to Leigh-Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) offers him a place to sleep and he ends up staying with her family permanently.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 07 Mar 2010
While medium-priced Paris-based movie Micmacs offers great all-round entertainment, the much bigger budgeted From Paris With Love proves bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
In fact, in this case it basically shows how you can make a real mess for lots of money.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 07 Mar 2010
French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet doesn’t make run of the mill movies.
From Delicatessen, through Amelie, to A Very Long Engagement, his films are full of weird coincidences, random happenings, eccentric characters and odd Heath Robinson-esque contraptions. Micmacs carries on in the same vein and in its charmingly weird way becomes enthralling – even if you’re a non-believer in the cult of Jeunet at the start, it will win you over by its thoroughly satisfying end.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 07 Mar 2010
He was one of the greatest writers ever to come out of Russia and so it’s funny to discover how little we actually know about the life (and death) of Count Leo Tolstoy.
Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) was a man of means with a beautiful country estate and yet, through the urgings of his most devoted follower Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), he rejected his title and in the last year of his life embraced a simple, peasant lifestyle threatening to leave all his wealth and the future rights to his writings to the Russian people. This infuriated his long-suffering wife Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), who felt he would be betraying his family if he did such a thing.
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