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48 Hours: Our pick of the weekend

There's a song that's been going round the King Power Stadium at the last few games which gathers more volume and more feeling at each match: The Great Escape. Leicester City, written off at Christmas...

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From Beaumont Leys to Bollywood: Actress Fagun Thakrar on her...

A big hit in Bollywood and with the BBC, Fagun Thakrar has come a long way since her childhood in Beaumont Leys. She tells Becky Jones about her career, including her new film about the 1984...

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Review: Whiplash (15)

You had a good run, but now it's come to an end. Animal, from the Muppets: you are no longer the king of the drums on the big screen. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash tells the electrifying tale of a...

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Review: Wild (15)

It's a perfect paradox. Sometimes to find yourself, you have to completely lose yourself: strip yourself bare of home comforts, temporarily sever emotional ties and stare your demons in the eye.Only...

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Review: American Sniper (15)

To the insurgents of Iraq, he was the Devil Of Ramadi. To his comrades, he was the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills to his name. Chris Kyle had medals on his...

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Film: Testament of Youth (15)

Excuse us a moment, won't you? We're just putting away our klaxon. It's the one we sound giddily whenever a film crew notice the existence of Leicestershire and Rutland. As you can imagine, it doesn't...

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Motorbike expert worked with Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow on...

It is the stuff of dreams – rubbing shoulders with A-list celebrities while working on the sets of some of the biggest Hollywood productions.But Mick Cross takes it all in his stride.He worked with...

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Words of Wisdom: The tribute to British comedy's most successful...

In a sun-starved corridor at De Montfort Hall, a huddle of men armed with drills are putting the final touches to a heartfelt tribute to one of the best-loved comedians in the history of British film,...

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Fifty Shades of Grey reviews: What the critics think

Fifty Shades of Grey, one of the most anticipated films of the year, has been released today but it has received mixed reviews from the critics.The film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan,...

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Harry Macqueen: He was kidnapped when he was nine, has spent a...

Harry Macqueen - the Leicestershire man behind critically acclaimed film Hinterland - was kidnapped when he was nine.His parents pulled over at a petrol station and got out of the car leaving Macqueen,...

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Picture Gallery : Leicester Mercury cinema ads from 1969

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Review: Far From The Madding Crowd (12A)

There's a celebrated scene in Far From The Madding Crowd when Thomas Hardy's spirited heroine Bathsheba Everdene is seduced a dazzling display of swordsmanship from the dashing, reckless Sergeant...

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48 Hours: Our pick of the weekend

One Timelord. One Tardis sidekick. A peevish hologram and a neurotic robot from a three-million-year-old intergalactic mining craft, plus the droll ship's computer.Two renegades from a prison planet....

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Film review: The Age of Adaline (12A)

The Age Of Adaline is a rose-tinted fairy story for every image-obsessed Hollywood actress.Lee Toland Krieger's swooning romance centres on a beautiful woman, who is "immune to the ravages of time" and...

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Film review: Spooks: The Greater Good (15)

After a decade of peril, carnage and catastrophe, in which the spies dropped like flies in a mind-boggling multitude of grisly ways, the end finally came, and BBC1's Spooks was itself killed off.Four...

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Film review: Big Game (12A)

The testosterone-fuelled spirit of Sylvester Stallone's 1993 blockbuster Cliffhanger is alive and kicking in Big Game, a gung-ho action thriller, which pits an embattled President of the United States...

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Film review: Top Five (15)

There are few things that Hollywood finds more fascinating than itself. But even in an industry prone to gazing admiringly in a mirror, Top Five sounds like the very worst kind of vanity project.It's...

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DVD reviews: The Theory of Everything

The Theory Of Everything (12) 5/5 If they were printed by a photograph of a sunset, you'd write them off as trite. But in the synthesised voice of Stephen Hawking at a press conference in 2006, the...

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Film review: Mad Max: Fury Road (15)

Fasten your seat belts and hold on tight. The fourth chapter of the post-apocalyptic saga is a riot of foot-to-the-floor carmageddon that makes Fast & Furious 7 looks like a sedate Sunday afternoon...

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Review: Kim Richey at The Musician

Pop quiz: how many acts who have performed at The Musician have also had a song played on Buffy The Vampire Slayer? The answer may well be just the one: Kim Richey, who returned to what she calls "one...

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