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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) #237
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Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. With Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford. As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. |
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The Lego Movie (2014) #238
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Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553
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Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Whiplash (2014) #459
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Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. |
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The Theory of Everything (2014) #470
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Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. |
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Selma (2014) #471
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Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. |
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The Riot Club (2014) #484
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Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay. Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. |
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Godzilla (2014) #489
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Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe. The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity. |
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Seve the Movie (2014) #494
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Directed by John-Paul Davidson. With José Luis Gutiérrez, José Navar, Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo. Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game. |
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Grace of Monaco (2014) #498
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Directed by Olivier Dahan. With Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella. The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. |
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W1A (2014) #559
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With Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes, Sarah Parish. Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC. 4x30min |
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Monty Python Live (2014) #560
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Directed by Eric Idle, Aubrey Powell. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The reunion of the Monty Python team on stage for the first time in over 30 years, and for the last time ever. |
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The Monuments Men (2014) #574
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Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. |
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (2014) #647
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The Royal Opera. Mozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wanted to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni’s sex life into a darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanizing as an attempt to stave off his own mortality. Each woman he seduces represents a life he could have had. Though it is a dark piece, Holten handles it with a light touch and works with a superb cast – Mariusz Kwiecień, one of the world’s leading Don Giovannis, Alex Esposito, a fresh, vigorous Leporello, and acclaimed French soprano Véronique Gens. Spectacular designs by Es Devlin (Les Troyens) make innovative use of projections by acclaimed video designer Luke Halls. Nicola Luisotti conducts. |
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An Evening with Sammy Davis Jr (2014) #649
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1 hour. BBC. A compilation of the very best of Sammy Davis Jr's famous 1960s performances for the BBC, that leaves no doubt as to why at the time he was billed as the world's greatest living entertainer. This show captures Davis as the ultimate swinger, singer and gunslinger, performing classic songs like My Funny Valentine and Once in a Lifetime, showing how he's quick on the draw with a pistol, and demonstrating his incredible impersonations of some of the best-known stars of the era. |
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Recomposed by Max Richter Live from Berlin (2014) #652
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48 mins. Directed by George Scott. With Werner Ehrhardt, Daniel Hope, Max Richter. A staged performance of Max Richter's recomposition of Vivaldi's masterpiece "The Four Seasons" with Max Richter, Daniel Hope (violin) and the orchestra L'Arte Del Mondo. Richter's score is performed by virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope and the orchestra "L'Arte Del Mondo", and shot at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastraße (the former broadcast centre of East Germany). |
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Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain: A New Dawn (2014) #673
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1 hour. BBC. Episode 1. In the first of a six-part series, Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Victoria, fighting an intractable war against the Boers in South Africa, enjoying the bawdy pleasures of music hall and worrying about the physical and moral strength of the working class. There are stories of political intrigue between David Lloyd George and his arch-enemy Joseph Chamberlain, as well as the beginning of the struggle for women's suffrage. Plus an account of the day Mr Rolls met Mr Royce and kicked off a revolution in motoring. With powerful archive and vivid anecdotes, Andrew Marr gets to the heart of Edwardian Britain. He brings to life Britain's struggle to maintain its imperial power in the world in the years before the First World War. |
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Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain: Britannia at Bay (2014) #673
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1 hour. BBC. The final film in Andrew Marr's epic six-part series is a vivid account of Britain in the Second World War. Marr's story of 'the people's war' begins with the defeat that came to define modern Britain's national spirit: Dunkirk. In 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of the German war machine. Churchill produced the words that stirred the Blitz spirit, but a Nazi invasion seemed inevitable. How could Britain fight on? The 'Dad's Army' of the Home Guard was hastily assembled and Britain was forced to pull together in ways it never had before. Andrew Marr finds some surprising twists to legendary stories; the Battle of Britain was not simply a story of reckless bravery, but also a one of lethally efficient command and control. The Blitz was a devastating attack from the air that everyone had dreaded, yet it didn't break the spirit of the people or dim their humour. This was also the boffins' war, and Churchill understood the importance of science. He was prepared to give away Britain's most highly classified scientific and military secrets to help bring the Americans into the conflict. This wooing would help bring victory. But it came at a price: a bankrupt nation, a crumbling empire and a US cultural invasion that defines modern Britain to this day. |
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Kaakkaa Muttai (aka The Crows Egg) (2014) #731
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Directed by M Manikandan. With Ramesh, J. Vignesh, Aishwarya Rajesh, Ramesh Thilak. Two slum kids want nothing more than a slice of pizza. |
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Closer to the Moon (2014) #812
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Directed by Nae Caranfil. With Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser. A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie. |