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Addams Family, The

Film about the Addams family who are pleased that Uncle Fester has returned from a long absence bit all is not as it seams.

7/10

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X + Y

Comming of age film about and autistic boy who goes to an Olympic maths world championship and meets others who are as obsessed with maths as he is.

6/10

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Hollywood Collection Grace Kelly The American Princess

Documentary about the actress Grace Kelly who gave up Hollywood to become Princess Grace of Monaco

5/10

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Alexander and the no good, bad, terrible day

Alexander is normally the unlucky member of his family and feels that the others dont sympathise with this.  On his birthday ge makes a wish that they have a bad day and they do. Being a Disney film it inevitably come to a happy ending where everything is alright.

6/10

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Smurfs, The

Live actions with cgi smurfs making not to new York and needing to work out how to get back to their own world.
6/10

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Uptown Girls

A rich orphan finds her inheritance has been mismanaged and she needs to get a job. She gets a job as nanny to a rich but lonely girl. they each help each other learn to be happier.

There is a rom Com subplot that doesn’t really work or cone to anything involving a wannabe male singer who is a fan of the nanny’s dead father.

7/10

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TV Review – A world without downs syndrome

This BBC documentary is presented by comedy actress Sally Phillips who looks at the ethics involved in new screening methods to accurately diagnose downs syndrome and whether it would mean that more mother’s will abort rather than have the child. She looks at what it will mean for people like her 11 year old son Ollie who has downs syndrome, if there are less people like them.

9/10

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Downton Abbey Series 4

Continuation of the saga. Mary is learning to cope as a widow with her baby George but still has suitors, Tom is taken advantage of, Sybbie is able to walk and talk, Anna gets rapped, O’Brian Leaves and there are a couple of replacements, Edith has a secret pregnancy, Mosely gets a new job as does Alfred and Ivy and Downton sees it’s first black man. In the Christmas special Rose had her comming out ball and is presented at the Place and we get to see the London house.

7/10

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Hollywood Collection Audrey Hepburn Remembered 

Documentary about the actress Audrey Hepburn with interviews with some of her co stars.

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Clue The Movie

Comedy based on the US version of the board game Ckudo. 6 strangers are invited to a secluded house where people they are linked with also are and start to get murdered.  It has more than one ending making it harder to guess the murderer or murderers are.

7/10