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‘Good People’ is a solid, well-made thriller

Tom and Anna Wright (James Franco and Kate Hudson) are a financially-struggling American couple giving UK life a try. The money from a robbery-gone-wrong ends up in their basement and they make the ill-fated decision to hold onto it, unaware that the cash will bring two separate criminal gangs and a worn police detective charging into their lives.

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‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ is a film of arguably hollow pleasures, but it’s a commanding fantasy with a potent chilly atmosphere

Snow White and the Huntsman Written by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini Directed by Rupert Sanders USA, 2012 The more – pardon the pun – grim of 2012’s two adaptations of the Grimm brothers’ classic tale isn’t quite as dark a revisionist reworking of the Snow White story as some in other …

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