How I Live Now

How I Live Now begins when prickly, slouchy, grumpy, badly-dressed teen Daisy-Elisabeth arrives in England, where she’s to spend the summer with her feral cousins on their chaotic and filthy Somerset farm. But as she travels through Heathrow, we realise something is seriously wrong with the status quo; Paris has been attacked (by terrorists?) and…

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Byzantium

I’ve always thought Gemma Arterton was completely over-rated. I figured that somewhere in her recent past there was a casting couch with her name on it. Because mostly, she always struck me as some middling East Enders actress who’d inexplicably hit the big time but was in fact more likely an Aladdin-in-panto-in-Croydon than a Bond…

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