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Some Questions On The Future Of The Coronavirus Vaccine, Answered

Scientists work tirelessly to find a coronavirus vaccine. But there are some questions to answer: How soon a viable vaccine would be developed? Would billions of people worldwide be able to to get it?




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Paris Suburbs Are Facing Social Disparities Under The Coronavirus Lockdown

The French are facing social disparities in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. With long bread lines and tensions with police, the Paris suburbs are faring poorly under the lockdown.




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What One Needs To Know Before Starting Gardening

While staying at home during the pandemic, people are now trying gardening to find out if they have a green thumb. But gardening is not an easy hobby and requires some research.




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Tyson's Largest Pork Plant Reopens As Tests Show Surge In Coronavirus Cases

The Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, reopened Thursday after a coronavirus outbreak there. Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson says he'd support a second shutdown if the changes aren't enough.




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What Happened Today: Health Care System Crumbles, Testing Questions

Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, answers questions about access to testing for COVID-19, false-negative results and the challenges of mass testing.




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Listener Questions On The State Of The U.S. Economy, Answered

NPR's business correspondent takes listener questions on the state of the U.S. economy and unemployment.




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What Recent College Graduates Are Going Through During The Pandemic

NPR's education reporter talks about what graduating seniors are going through right now as the colleges are closed due to the pandemic and answers their questions.




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What Recent College Graduates Are Going Through During The Pandemic, Continued

NPR's education reporter talks about what graduating seniors are going through right now as the colleges are closed due to the pandemic and answers their questions.




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How The Nature Of The Music Industry Has Changed During The Pandemic

NPR's music correspondent answers questions about the changing nature of the music industry during the pandemic and talks about how some artists are trying to make ends meet.




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Movie Review - Midnight in Paris

A Woody Allen romantic's tale where you need to throw out all expectations of realism and go along with the fantasy.




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Movie Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin

An Oscar-worthy, gripping yet harrowing film that had me tense throughout and drained at the end. Phew!




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Anonymous

Director Roland Emmerich and writer John Orloff dip a quill in poison and stab Shakespeare in the back in this well made piece of revisionist history.




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In Time

'In Time' is a science fiction thriller, that on paper works, but in its execution doesn't.




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Drive

Drive is one of the most wonderful movies of this or any year, showing that not only is there endless life in a timeworn genre if you love it enough and know your stuff.




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Moneyball

"Moneyball" may not hit a home run, but it's an interesting true story about the state of modern-day sports.




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Anonymous

Anonymous is wonderful fun and a terrific movie, just don't mistake it for a coherent argument!




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Breaking Dawn - Part 1

The romantic supernatural saga tips over into pure melodrama in its fourth installment, but surprisingly it's a better film than its predecessors.




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The Debt

...at the heart of all this is -a disastrously skewed mission that ends up with the three young agents and their prisoner trapped in an East Berlin flat, dumped by their own colleagues and the Americans...




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Movie Review: The Ides of March

Beware The Ides of March? Not unless you want to miss a cracking new Clooney film!





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The Ides of March

George Clooney returns to the directors chair, and delivers an entertaining drama about the darker side of politics.




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Burning Man

Wildly jump cutting, flashing back and forward in time for no reason other than effect, Burning Man delivers a visceral movie experience that leaves you wondering if it had all run in normal linear order, it would have had much impact at all.



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New Year's Eve

Director Garry Marshall and a host of famous faces throw out some bland and predictable confetti to usher in the new year.




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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Death-defying set pieces, first class production, and a great director makes this one of the best films in the action/spy series.





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War Horse

Could 2011's most touching love story be between a young man and his horse? Steven Spielberg delivers a cinematic tour de force that pay homage to good storytelling and classic cinema.




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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

It's Holmes versus Moriarty in this lacklustre sequel that fails to add much to the detective-action franchise.




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The Kid with a Bike

The Kid with a Bike is a spare film, with only two main characters and runs for only 88 minutes, but by the end we are so tense from watching the title character, Cyril (Thomas Doret), and his near disastrous progress through the film that when my mother and I have a minor drama in the car park that we become almost hysterical with laughter, so tightly wound has the story made us.




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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Swedish bestseller makes its English-language film debut in a stylish and impressive work from David Fincher.




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The Adventures of Tintin

Ah, what more could the vanished, sweet child in us all want?




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Hugo

Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the cinema of the past with an outstanding 3D film that's both heartfelt and stunning.




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The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep saves the day with an extraordinary performance in an otherwise disappointing biopic of the British PM.





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J. Edgar

Clint Eastwood's biopic is easy to admire and features a great performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, but its central character still proves a tad elusive.




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Movie Review - The Artist

A sweethearted romantic Hollywood tale told with the affectation of being black and white and silent.





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Movie Review: Any Questions For Ben?

An Aussie RomCom from the Working Dog team, Any Questions For Ben? unfortunately isn't very funny and only slightly romantic.




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Any Questions for Ben?

The new film from the popular Working Dog team is lacking in genuine laugh-out-loud moments but succeeds with a sweet and charming story and performances.





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This Means War

It may be war, but there's just not enough spark in this action rom-com to make it satisfying.





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The Artist

It may be silent, but Michel Hazanavicius' creation has a wonderful voice and sings a song in celebration of cinema.




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Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Don't forget your tissues for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - the tale of an odd and hurting 10 year old boy searching for meaning and connection after the death of his father on September 11






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My Week With Marilyn

Michelle Williams is touching as the broken doll of a woman and Eddie Redmayne quintessentially boyish as Colin. But it all just doesn't ring true. So the myth remains intact.




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John Carter

Hollywood has had 100 years to make a movie about John Carter, but this big screen treatment is a mess from start to finish.




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Movie Review: Headhunters

A Norwegian film based on the book by crime writer Jo Nesbo about a recruitment specialist with a chip on his shoulder and a sideline as an art thief.





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21 Jump Street

My goodness. The big screen comedy update of the popular 80s show is actually lots of fun.