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  • Charlotte's Film Club: Fifty Shades of Grey
    The 'Love' themed Film Club continues in accordance with Valentines day, and today Charlotte discusses book adaptation "Fifty Shades of Grey". Released in 2015, Dakota Johnson stars as college senior Anastasia Steele, who is given the chance to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, pushing her down a life-changing path. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Ana plunges headlong into an affair and learns that Christian's true desires push the boundaries of pain and pleasure .
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: La La Land
    The Film Club this week is still all about 'Love', continuing today with Charlotte's choice of La La Land, the 2016 musical. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling both star as amateurs in Hollywood who have a common desire to do what they love which draws them together. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. The Film won and was nominated for multiple Oscars, including  "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role" for Emma Stone.
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: Atonement
    We're getting closer to Valentines day which can mean only one thing! That's right, a week of Film Club themes devoted to the theme of 'Love'. Charlotte's first pick for this week is "Atonement" from 2007. Based on the book by Ian McEwan, this English drama follows the lives of young lovers Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). When the couple are torn apart by a lie constructed by Cecilia's jealous younger sister, Briony (Saoirse Ronan), all three of them must deal with the consequences. Robbie is the hardest hit, since Briony's deception results in his imprisonment, but hope increases when their paths cross during World War II.
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  • The Radio Verulam Film Guide: Friday 9th February 2018
    9th February 2018 – Films on TV Simon Carver chooses his pick of films from free-to-air TV for your viewing pleasure across the week ending 9th Feb: Friday Looper (2012) 11.05pm – 12.55am BBC2 Saturday (2015) Lonely are the brave 4.00pm – 6.15pm ITV4 Sunday Spy (2015) 9.00pm – 11.25pm Channel 4 Monday Belle (2013) 7.40pm – 9.50pm Film4 Tuesday Room (2015) 9.00pm – 11.20pm Film4 Wednesday Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 10.00pm – 12.05am Channel 5 Thursday The Ladykillers (1955) 3.00pm – 4.50pm Film4
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: Locke
    Rounding off a week of works featuring actors who started on television, the final Film Club of this week looks at Tom Hardy in "Locke". In this 2013 drama, Hardy stars as a construction foreman who is stuck driving in a car to the premature birth of a child resulting from an affair, and must do his best to organize his personal and professional life via phone calls, while also imagining conversations with his father. The film only stars Hardy, but also includes the voices of many actors such as Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman and Tom Holland.
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: Collateral Beauty
    The week of actors who started their careers on tv continues again today, with none other than the iconic Fresh Prince Will Smith, and his role in 2016 drama "Collateral Beauty". Smith stars as a New York advertising executive who suffers the loss of his daughter, and retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. When his notes bring unexpected personal responses, he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty. Helen Mirren, Kiera Knightley, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton and Naomie Harris also feature alongside Smith.
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: 50/50
    The week of looking at actors who origin from television continues today. Charlotte picks "Joseph Gordon Levitt" to look at on this edition of the film club, but most specifically in "50/50". This 2011 comedy is inspired by a true story, and centers on a 27 year old who learns he has a serious cancer case, and does what he can to fight the disease, while living life to the fullest. Along with Gordon Levitt, Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anna Kendrick star.
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  • Charlotte's Film Club: About Time
    As its a Monday, today Charlotte sets a new Film Club theme; "Actors who started on TV". Today the focus is "About Time", specifically due to Margot Robbie featuring. In the film, when Tim Lake turns 21, his father tells him a secret: The men in their family can travel through time. Although he can't change history, Tim resolves to improve his life by getting a girlfriend. He meets a girl , falls in love and finally wins her heart via time-travel and a little cunning. However, as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds that his special ability can't shield him and those he loves from the problems of ordinary life. The star studded cast features Domnhall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams, and ofcourse, Margot Robbie.
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  • The Radio Verulam Film Guide: Friday 2nd February 2018
    2nd February 2018 Simon's pick of films on TV for this week! Friday Lucy (2014) 9.00pm – 10.45pm Film4 Saturday Suffragette (2015) 9.00pm – 11.10pm Channel 4 Sunday Jane Eyre (1943) 2.10pm – 3.45pm BBC2 Monday The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 10.00pm – 12.25am Channel 5 Tuesday Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 9.00pm – 11.30pm More4 Wednesday The Dressmaker (2015) 9.00pm – 11.20pm Film4 Thursday Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) 10.45pm – 12.50pm Film4
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  • The Radio Verulam Film Guide: Friday 26th January 2018
    Friday 26th January - Simon's pick of films for the week Friday Sleepy Hollow (1999) 9.00pm – 11.10pm 5STAR Saturday The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 1.30pm – 4.15pm BBC2 Sunday How to train your dragon (2010) 4.55pm – 6.40pm Channel 4 Monday Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) 8.00pm – 11.05pm E4 Tuesday East is East (1999) 9.00pm – 11.00pm More4 Wednesday A Walk in the Woods (2015) 9.00pm – 11.05pm Film4 Thursday Thunderball (1965) 9.00pm – 11.40pm ITV4
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