Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Written By: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Ralph Fiennes, Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan
Rated: 15
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Released: 14th April 2010

Synopsis: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

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Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Written By: Eric Garcia & Garrett Lerner
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber
Rated: 18
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Released: 16th April 2010

Synopsis: In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called "The Union". The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, "The Union" sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake, to track him down.

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The Daleks. A creature interwoven into the fabric of Doctor Who as much as the Doctor and the TARDIS itself. We're always going to have Dalek stories (and Cyberman ones) but someone really needs to work out how to write them well. Since season 1s 'Dalek', we've had numerous ones already in the new show, parts of which have been extremely good, the overall sum of which have generally been below average, with each time the Daleks 'wiped from history' only to return, miraculously 5 or 6 episodes later. So, how can the new writing team handle the Doctors big bads?

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Thoughts & Musings on 6x12 “Everybody Loves Hugo”

"Dead people are more reliable than alive people"

Hurley, one of the most like able characters on the show gets his flash sideways episode finally. Following on from last weeks brain melter, this one slots a number of threads started last week into the plot and carries on moving things along very nicely ...

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Thoughts & Musings on 6x11 “Happily Ever After”

"I can't take you back, the Island isn't done with you yet"

Desmond episodes are normally some of the best and this is no exception. It really is a bit of a brain melter but probably the best of the season so far ...

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 “This isn't going to be big on dignity”

The second episode of Steven Moffats reign with Matt Smith as the Doctor brings us a little sci-fi fairy tale with some good scary moments and again something for all the family to enjoy. It may not be as strong as 'The Eleventh Hour', but if this is one of the series weaker entries, season 5 should be more than a pretty good season.

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"No TARDIS, No Screwdriver and 2 minutes to spare. Who da man!"

Doctor Who returned to our screens on April 3rd under the much anticipated control of Stephen Moffat, writer of many of the previous 4 seasons best episodes, plus a new Doctor and assistant. How does the first episode pan out then, as Moffat moves from writing a couple of episodes a season to doing the bulk of the work, can the quality hold up and will Matt Smith be at ease with the role and take over from the very popular David Tennant?

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Tuck Bushman is a micro budget feature (made on £625 amazingly!) by the Leeds comedy group The Discount Comedy Checkout (Chris Lumb, Matthew Hick, Matt Jackson, Natalie Smeaton and Rob Girdler). Shot in and around Yorkshire with a lot of help from local communities, it tells the tale of disgraced Australian animal hunter, Tuck Bushman, who is looking to resurrect his career. Luckily for him, a locall town, the titular Piddledown, have a problem with a beast and the mayor calls in the help of people to track it down. Armed with a cameraman and his trusty rules, Bushman goes off in search of the beast, but is all as it seems?

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Director: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Written By: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa from the book by Steve McVicker
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor & Leslie Mann
Rated: 15
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Released: 17th March 2010

Synopsis: Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven realizes he's gay and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.

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Thoughts & Musings on 6x10 “The Package”

"Unless Alpert is covered in Bacon grease, I'm not sure Hurley can track anything"

After last weeks exposition filled plot mover, this weeks is a slower again. However is really had the feel of the writers moving pieces into position for the final run ...

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Thoughts & Musings on 6x09 “Ab Aeterno”

"Don't gloat Jacob, it doesn't become you"

Well, a much, much better episode this week. Plot, plot and more plot. In many ways exposition but we get a hell of a lot of answers here and some great acting from Nestor Carbonell.

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