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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Movie Review: 50 Shades of Grey

Bogged down by terrible performances and shoddy direction, 50 Shades of Grey is a Red Room mess. Review by Matt Cummings In Director Sam Taylor-Johnson's 50 Shades of Grey , billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dorman) 'recruits' virgin Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) to join him in his Red Room of Pain. A victim of a rough early life, Grey wants to get his kink on with the next available woman, but the 15 other slaves he's been with have all come and gone. Enter the frumpy Steele, who gets to interview Grey for the college paper from she is about to graduate. With an instant spark between them, Steele agrees to be slave #16 in Grey's Pleasure Principle, first losing her virginity to him then entering his room for a lot of sexual rumpus. But as Grey's personality begins to come out, Steele finds herself conflicted between the man she now loves and his violent sexual fetishes. A cultural phenomena that makes little sense to me, 50 Shades is a fa

JAMES BOND SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2011

The two-minute short, specially commissioned for International Women’s Day ,(March 8th)  sees 007 star Daniel Craig undergo a dramatic makeover as he puts himself, quite literally, in a woman’s shoes. This one goes out to all the women in the world. Being a father of two little girls I really hope things do change for women around the world. Watch the video after the Jump... Directed by acclaimed ‘Nowhere Boy’ director/conceptual artist Sam Taylor-Wood, scripted by Jane Goldman (‘Kick Ass’) and featuring the voice of Dame Judi Dench reprising her role as ‘ M ’, the film will be screened in cinemas and streamed online in a bid to highlight the levels of inequality that persist between men and women in the UK and worldwide. It is the first film featuring Bond to be directed by a woman. JAMES BOND SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2011 www.weareequals.org / www.weareequals.org/blog Director: Sam Taylor-Wood. Producer: Barbara Broccoli. Scriptwriter: Jane Goldman. Direc