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Film review: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

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 After thirteen years, six series, and countless razor-sharp haircuts, creator and screenwriter Steven Knight brings his iconic Birmingham gangsters to the big screen. Directed by Tom Hopper who worked on some of its early television episodes, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man takes place during World War II and sees the great Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) living in self-imposed exile, mourning the loss of loved ones and writing a novel.

 In the city, his son Duke (Barry Keoghan) has taken the reins of the family business and is approached for a lucrative job by fascist politician John Beckett (Tim Roth) who is allied with Nazi Germany. Following desperate pleas from his sister Ada (Sophie Rundle) and the mysterious Kaulo (Rebecca Ferguson), Tommy is forced to return to the life he’d left behind.

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DVD review: Dune

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Others have tried and failed at successfully adapting Frank Herbert’s acclaimed science fiction novel for the big screen, most notably in 1984 when surrealist filmmaker David Lynch released a version to an almost universally poor reception. However, with impressive genre credits such as Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 to his name already, writer and director Denis Villeneuve has stepped up to the challenge of Dune.

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DVD review: The Girl on the Train

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  Since Paula Hawkins’ thriller novel The Girl on the Train reached the top of the best-selling list last year, the anticipation surrounding the inevitable cinematic adaptation has been rife. The film version is directed by Tate Taylor, and moves the story from London across the Atlantic to a New York setting. Emily Blunt takes the role of Rachel, the titular ‘girl’ on the train who commutes daily past her former marital home where ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives happily with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their young daughter. Whilst struggling with an alcohol problem, she begins to take an unhealthy interest in Tom and Anna’s idyllic next door neighbours Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott (Luke Evans), who appear to have the perfect life from the outside looking in. However, when Megan goes missing, Rachel finds herself embroiled in the investigation.

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