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    Hang on, don't I know him...?

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    Sting taught at my high school but it was a few years before I started there. Alan Shearer was a couple of years above me and Donna Air was a year above me both in the same high school. When I went on to Theatre & Performing Arts College one of my drama teachers was Jimmy Nail's sister.

     

    A friend of mine also used to go to school with Daniel Craig. She nearly had a heart attack when she saw him in his first major role in Tomb Raider.

    In the Valley of Elah

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    I watched In the Valley of Elah the other night.

     

    Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon find out that their son has gone AWOL (absent without leave) from the army shortly after returning home from a tour of duty in Iraq. The story weaves an intricate web of mystery around this basic premise and keeps you guessing all the way through and makes excellent use of garbled video clips found on the son's mobile phone.

     

    I drew some similarities with No Country for Old Men, not just in both films having some of the same cast (Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Barry Corbin). The film had a similar quiet brooding about it and also used minimal use of music throughout (although obviously more than No Country which only had end credits music). Jones played a similar character too, quiet, knowledgeable, authoritative, sad and quite lonely (despite being married to Susan Sarandon). His acting was as always impeccable - standout scenes were talking on the phone to Sarandon and having to tell her about their son and also his two visits to the morgue -one on his own and the second time with Sarandon. Sarandon gave a solid performance too, along with Charlize Theron and the rest of the supporting cast (including Jason Patric, James Franco and those already mentioned).

     

    Overall an excellent film and one for the collection.

    I am legend~DVD

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    There are three films based on the I Am Legend book. Vincent Price's Last Man on Earth is closest to the book, Charlton Heston's Omega Man is a bit camp and silly and Will Smith's has some great imagery and excellent acting by Will, but it does, like Omega Man, change a great deal of the book. Having said that, it is good (apart from the comic-like CGI'd infected).

     

    I'm a huge fan of the book, so was left a little disappointed by Will's latest take on it.

    Ashes to Ashes

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    It got off to a bit of a shaky start for me - the awkwardness of Keeley Hawes (and the daughter's) acting showed a little, but as soon as she dropped into 1981 it jumped up a notch and then Drake's okish acting became much better when bouncing off the ever brilliant Hunt.

     

    Looks like it's going to be damn good.

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