Robert Langdon is back and this time he's bringing the full force of his slightly ponderous lateral thinking to the dark secrets of the Illuminati. After the death of a pope the cardinals lock themselves away to decide upon a successor, but it soon becomes clear there is a killer in their midst, and, as the bodies pile up, Langdon must follow the clues and race against time to uncover not only the murderer, but to find an ingenious bomb that will destroy the Vatican City. Apparently based on a v
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BEFORE THE RAIN (1994)
Certification15 Our Rating
An Oscar nominee and Golden Lion winner, this three part film starts with a monk escorting an Albanian girl through a gorgeous Macedonian setting, then moves to London, where an exile lives, and finally returns to a divided Balkan village where gun touting Macedonian and Albanian ethnics fan their mutual hatred. The human tragedy of war contrasts with a stunning landscape. Beautiful, moving, superb.
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THE DA VINCI CODE (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Have any of you managed to dodge the book? Well for those lucky few the basic outline has symbologist Robert Langdon in search of the Holy Grail and Jesus Christ's last living descendant. Unfortunately for the unwitting Robert the shadows are littered with fanatical secret religious societies and before he knows what he's stumbled across he's running for his life, helped by the rather more able cryptologist, Sophie Neveu. The Da Vinci Code is a very big budget action adventure; ridiculous, over
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