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  • Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney. 15A cert, lim release, 123 min

    Dada and the doc

    Reviewed - The Last King of Scotland: Director Kevin McDonald skilfully blends fact and fiction in a gripping drama set during Idi Amin's regime in Uganda, writes Michael Dwyer.

  • Skint Will finds a way

    Reviewed - The Pursuit of Happyness: GRAB hold of the Dramamine. The following scenario may induce nausea.

  • Fizzling gun fest fails to ignite

    Reviewed - Smokin' Aces: BEGINNING with frozen images of various colourfully homicidal characters accompanied by a lengthy, supposedly hip voice-over, the new thriller from Joe Carnahan, director of the perfectly decent Narc, forcefully establishes itself as the sort of film which will cause viewers to muse on how much certain people have to answer for.

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  • The usual suspects rule Irish box-office

    THE final box-office figures for 2006 are in and, as expected, the second swashbuckler starring Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is No 1, very closely followed by the new 007, the West Cork guerrillas and the Man in Black. Only €335,000 separates the top six films.

  • Is Cillian Bafta bound?

    Cillian Murphy is one of the nominees for the Orange Rising Star award for emerging talent, which will be presented at the Bafta ceremony in London on February 11th.

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