It’s Chocolate Week! A prospect so deliciously scrumptious that it’s actually the second Chocolate Week of the year…ssh, don’t tell anyone!
From Forrest Gump’s life motto to Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat, the cinema has reflected our love affair with the sweet stuff to mouthwatering effect.
On the other hand, it’s also done its utmost to put chocoholics off for life – the horror! Check these scenes out at your own risk…
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A remarkable true story is ready be told for the first time on the big screen, here are all the details…
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There were two available avenues down which The Glass Castle, Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ likewise-titled memoir, could have traveled. On the one hand, a ‘glass castle’ is symbolically suggestive of fragility, insecurity and hollow grandeur; on the other, it is a image that conjures nostalgic ideas of the fairytale ‘far, far away’s of childhood tales. In hindsight, it is a shame that Cretton leant to the latter. His Glass Castle is a film of many isolated successes, which are sadly let down a misjudged and inconsistent tone.
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