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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
(2004)
CertificationPG
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Jules Verne's classic adventure gets a makeover, or mauling, depending on whether people call you a child or an adult. Inventor, Phileas Fogg makes a bet with the Royal Academy of Science that he can circumnavigate the earth in less than eighty days, an endeavour that will take him and his two companions on an adventure beyond their wildest dreams, and indeed, nightmares. Around The World In 80 Days is a mess of a movie, there are some great set pieces and it's all done with exuberance, but it i
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST / THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
(1986)
Certification12
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1986); this is a good, clear production, in which the repartee flows right along, except for Rupert Frazer, far too stuffy and moral and not nearly hungry enough for Algernon. He becomes a straight man for Jack, in which role Paul McGann, usually a melancholy actor, turns his doleful air into one long, sublimely silly fret. Natalie Ogle is a sweetly fixated Cecily, Amanda Redman has an abundance of energy and in her performance one sees, as Jack correctly does, t
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