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Film review: “Contact”

Film review – Dagny – 21/11/97 The basic premise of this movie, which is reflected in the stunning opening sequence, is that space is so incredibly, unbelievably vast that there must be someone else out there. “If it’s just us”, say several characters in the film, “doesn’t it seem like an awful waste of space?”…

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Film review: Brassed Off

Film review – Dagny – 23/10/97 Even those who are staunchly opposed to brass band music can find something to appreciate in writer-director Mark Herman’s Brassed Off. Set in the fictional North-England mining town of Grimley, the film tells the story of the Grimley Colliery Brass Band and the effect that the closure of the…

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