By Marty Mulrooney
The Three Colours Trilogy is the collective title of three multi award-winning films – two made in French, one made primarily in Polish – directed by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Available for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray, the films – co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz – explore the French Revolutionary ideals of freedom (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and brotherhood (Rouge).
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By Marty Mulrooney
One Life is a major feature length production from BBC Earth Films, narrated by actor Daniel Craig and directed by Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes from the BBC Natural History Unit. More than four years in the making and put together from over 10,000 hours of incredible animal footage, the film has been created for a family audience and reveals the universal bonds that connect all living creatures on our planet.
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By Kim Newman
Give me a hansom cab, a magnifying glass, a diabolical mystery, a deerstalker, a rattled-off deduction and Dr Watson being baffled, and I’m usually happy. I enjoy most Sherlock Holmes films – with the exception of the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore version of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the likes of Sherlock Homie: The Ass Detective, of course – but here I select my particular favourites, highlighting slightly off-the-beaten-track efforts.
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By Adele MacGregor
The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp as protagonist Paul Kemp, follows the booze fuelled journey of a newspaper journalist making a new start on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico in the 1960s. Directed by Bruce Robinson, the film is adapted from the novel by the eccentric and brilliant Hunter S. Thompson, who also penned the cult classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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