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OFS

May 17, 2018
2 min

Could go either way.

Do you remember the ending of The Italian Job (1969)? Executing a daring plan to steal gold bars from a security truck in the middle of...

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OFS

May 17, 2018
2 min

Goode, but occasionally brilliant.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is currently on general release, an adaptation of the bestselling novel set in post war...

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OFS

Apr 16, 2018
2 min

Big screen or small screen.

There was a time when television was cinema’s poor cousin. An actor began their career in some sitcom or drama, hoping to draw the...

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OFS

Apr 16, 2018
2 min

Spoiler Alert....

I’ve been watching BBC4’s latest crime drama, Below The Surface, and it’s very good. There was a familiar looking actor in it, one I’d...

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OFS

Mar 29, 2018
2 min

Talking Films.

Once every four months, members of the Oswestry Film Society can be found in the bar of the Wynnstay Hotel, wrestling with the great...

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OFS

Mar 21, 2018
2 min

A Sy of satistaction.

There are some actors who seem to play the same role in every film. Tom Hanks – decent everyman. Maggie Smith – haughty matriarch. Zooey...

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OFS

Mar 21, 2018
2 min

‘Life Skills’ before the Tardis

Writer/director Joe Cornish has good reason to feel a little smug. To begin with his debut feature Attack the Block (2011) - a knockabout...

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OFS

Mar 7, 2018
2 min

Time for a Korea change.

The spotlight of the world recently shone on South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, but film fans have been looking over there for a...

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OFS

Mar 7, 2018
2 min

Loving film, Loving Vincent

Film is a magic trick; twenty four frames per second are projected to create the illusion of movement. In the days before digital...

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OFS

Feb 21, 2018
2 min

Viennese Romance

As Valentine’s Day approaches, there’s never really any hesitation in my mind as to my ‘go to’ romantic film – it has to be 1995’s Before...

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