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A Cock and Bull Story
A cock and bull story literally means a wildly improbable story that is invented to glorify the person telling it. In this instance the person telling the story of Tristram Shandy.
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Alien Autopsy
Alien AutopsyMy initial feeling when discovering that ‘ant and dec’ had a film out was one of despair.
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Walk The Line
The late great Johnny Cash was and, in many ways, still is a legend. He left an everlasting mark on the music industry and people everywhere, but most importantly in the end, when it was all said and done…he walked the line.
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Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night, and Good LuckWhen Alfred Hitchcock decided to shoot a film in black and white, even though colour technology was readily available, it (being Psycho) quickly became a cinematic masterpiece.
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Elizabethtown
The tagline to this film was about “finding yourself” and this was a film that never even really found its feet.
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The Da Vinci Code
The Cannes Film Festival is undoubtedly a marked date on any film calendar. It is a festival which decides the fate of many upcoming movies.
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Cars
In a world completely populated by motor vehicles, Cars follows an obnoxious, self-centred racing car called Lightning McQueen who is on the verge of winning the world championship in his rookie year.
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The Guardian
When I first discovered that Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher were making a film about the coastguards of America, my initial thought was that it was going to be a Baywatch-fuelled train wreck or, more fittingly, a shipwreck.
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Bobby
The untimely death of Senator Robert Kennedy during his presidential campaign is a story that touched Emilio Estevez since his childhood.
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The Prestige
The ‘prestige’ is the part of the magic trick that it makes it magic, the part that you crave to discover. It also means high status and respect, resulting from success and achievements. The former is what they do; the latter is what they long for.
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ABOUT Dan Higgins
Dan Higgins is an author who has written for the BBC, the New Statesman, the Independent and many other publications.