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The Butler | Value for money: $$$$ Directed by Lee Daniels. Written by Danny Strong. Starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. America is a bit funny about race. Sort of in the way greyhounds are funny about rabbits. The Butler is a story of being black in America in the 20th century, from the […]

Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. Director: Lee Daniels. Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher. Score: Mario Grigorov. Cinematography: Andrew Dunn. This is an extraordinarily thought-provoking, heart-breaking account of an obese, abused, illiterate teenager’s bid to triumph over tragedy and prejudice. Precious is incredibly bleak and oppressive, and although it occasionally flirts with sentimentality, remains true […]

Spearheading Thursday’s theatrical release of Predators are repackaged Blu-rays of the first two movies in the sci-fi franchise. US critics have slammed Predator: The Ultimate Hunter Edition for having been scrubbed free of its film grain through “an ungodly amount of digital noise reduction”, although Home Theater Forum acknowledged the colour is “nicely saturated and […]