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BRITAIN’S SECRET HISTORY
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 Keith Jeffrey To mark the centenary of the creation of both the British Security Service and Secret Service (they both started as one organisation before evolving into the two separate organisations early on), both MI5 and MI6 opened…
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LITTLE WHITE LIES
Glasgow Film Theatre, 17.04.11 A big hit in France last year, it says a lot about the attitude of UK multiplex chains, and the disinterest of the British audience for foreign language films that in Glasgow Little White Lies is not showing in the city’s 18-screen multiplex, whose screens are occupied with multiple showings of the Easter holiday, kid-friendly…
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MEEK’S CUTOFF
Glasgow Film Theatre, 15.04.11 The people at Soda Pictures, the film distribution company responsible for this month’s release of Kelly Reichardt’s revisionist Western, Meek’s Cutoff, know how to win me over. Through the medium of Twitter they ran a competition to coincide with the release, offering followers the chance to win Reichardt’s previous two films, Old Joy…
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SOURCE CODE
Cineworld Glasgow, 08.04.11 Duncan Jones arrived in 2009 with the sci-fi psychological drama Moon, which benefitted massively from Sam Rockwell’s brilliant portrayal of multiple versions of himself, and was a smartly, slickly directed debut. If there was one drawback to the film, it was that it took bits and pieces from several sci-fi films of the…
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LIMITLESS
Odeon East Kilbride, 02.04.11 Limitless is the story of Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), a writer struggling for inspiration, who bumps into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth) one day and is given a pill, which once taken allows him to access 100% of his brain capacity. He instantly becomes smarter, able to write his book in four days, recall…
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