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Episode 10

Episode 10 of 15

Film reviews. Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh cast a critical eye over the latest movie releases, which include Ridley Scott's The Counsellor and Brit flick Don Hemingway.

Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh cast a critical eye over the latest movie releases. Films reviewed this week include Ridley Scott's The Counsellor, which features an all-star ensemble cast. Jude Law and Richard E Grant team up for Brit flick Dom Hemingway; plus Claudia and Danny take a look at Palme d'Or-winning French love story Blue is the Warmest Colour.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 19 Nov 2013 01:50

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Review of The Counsellor (Danny's Film Of The Week)

Review of The Counsellor (Danny's Film Of The Week)

Claudia: Didn’t you get quite bored of the characters? I was hoping for them all to get blown up soon.ÌýMichael Fassbender's character makes no sense.

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Danny: The Counsellor is the not film it appears to be.ÌýYou think it's going to be very star-studded but the real star is the script.ÌýCormac McCarthyÌýis possibly the world’s finest living novelist. Ridley ScottÌýis the perfect director for this; it’s gaudy, glitzy, vulgar and Ridley ScottÌýis very good at pulling those things off.

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Antonia: I think the problem with this film is the director. Cormac McCarthy is an infallible talent, an incredible writer, and here is an original screenplay - how exciting! But Ridley Scott is entirely the wrong director for this material; it needs someone with a much more peculiar eye, a lot more soul, someone a lot less interested in money.

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Review of Don Jon

Review of Don Jon

Claudia: My problem with the film is that it is unbelievably repetitive. When Julianne Moore turns up I breathed a sigh of relief - at last the adults are here!

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Antonia: This movie is no good, but I doÌýadmire Joseph Gordon Levitt for even trying to make a film about this subject. It’s riddled with cliché, but he is trying to start a conversation and I admire him for it.

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Danny: I think it's never good when the best part of a movie is a ten second fake film starring Channing Tatum. None of it makes any sense whatsoever.Ìý It’s a terrible advert for giving talented young actors the ability to make films before they are ready.

Review of Dom Hemingway

Review of Dom Hemingway

Claudia: I likedÌýJude LawÌýin this! He wasn’t sinister, he was just loyal. He was loyal to his boss so he stayed inside and then he came out and he wanted his due.

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Danny: This film very much wants to be Sexy Beast. It wants to be a little subversive and off kilter and unexpected.ÌýIt does set itself up to a quite nice standard, and for a while it feels like it’s almost going to roll towards it, but it does get a little flat towards the end.

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Antonia: It’s an extremely kind of wet film and it has this incredible crisis of confidence about 40 minutes in – because it’s actually quite entertaining up until that point – and then, suddenly, it entirely collapses like a blancmanche.

Review of Blue Is The Warmest Colour (Claudia and Antonia's Film Of The Week)

Review of Blue Is The Warmest Colour (Claudia and Antonia's Film Of The Week)

Claudia: I could watch her [Adèle Exarchopoulos] for weeks. I could watch them both, but especially the young girl, Adèle.Ìý

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Antonia: This is what the movie is about, fixing a camera on a human being of tremendous wattage and allowing them to walk, talk, move, eat spaghetti, and fall asleep. All that matters is this incredible way it seemed to demonstrate, perfectly, what it feels like to fall in love. That first flesh of love. It’s exceptional.

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Danny: This is almost like a silent movie. It’s a story, a very panoramic story, which is all told on the faces of the actresses. It’s in close up, and sometimes it’s a tiny glance and other times it’s this huge snotcake explosion of emotions. It’s all there.

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The Butler (12A)
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Pandora's Promise (12A) (Key Cities)
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Ram-Leela (12A)
A Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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Utopia (12A) (Limited)
A journey into Utopia, a region in northern Australia, which holds the oldest human presence on Earth.

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Role Contributor
Presenter Claudia Winkleman
Presenter Danny Leigh
Participant Antonia Quirke
Series Producer Howard Brenner
Executive Producer Basil Comely

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