June 16-22: Including Terminator Salvation and Incendies

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16th June, 2012

SATURDAY JUNE 16 The Golden Compass (TV2, 7.30pm). New Line, the studio that took a punt on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, was hoping for big things from this adaptation of the first of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Instead, The Golden Compass got average reviews, did middling box-office business and contributed to the studio’s restructuring. It must have seemed like a good idea on paper – Pullman’s alternative London is half Dickens, half magic. There is an evil witch (Nicole Kidman, whose pale ...

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