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|  | | | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows in a slideshow | | | | Jim White attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at the University of Bristol, though maintains most of his education came on the terraces at Old Trafford.
A founding member of staff at the Independent in 1986, he moved across to the Guardian ten years later, where his contributions have won the sports columnist of the year. A regular on Saturday Review and Front Row, he can also be frequently heard on Radio 5, where he was awarded a Sony Gold award for a documentary about the demise of Wembley Stadium.
Cinema has been a lifelong passion since his dad took him to see Lawrence of Arabia when he was a child and he returned twice a day every day for the next week to see the film over and again. After a youth largely spent oscillating between the football pitch and the local flea pit (his first date was at, bizarrely, 101 Dalmatians: it was all that was on) these days his favourite movies depend on his mood. The Godfather Part Two if in need of an epic, High Society for an uplift of the soul, This Is Spinal Tap when jokes are required. Though his children have shown him that there is not a lot wrong with Toy Story.
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|  | | Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin.
Veronica Guerin is based on the true story of an Irish journalist who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. Later that year she was gunned down by assassins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed Cate Blanchett talks to Jim White about the challenges she faced taking on the role.
Floating Weeds
Antonia Quirke discusses the 1959 Japanese film Floating Weeds, directed by Yasujiro Ozu. A new print of the film is released this week.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
T3 is widely regarded as the most expensive remake of all time, if rumour is to be believed the tab came to £180m. Jim White talks to the film's director Jonathan Mostow, and its producers Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar.
In the multiplex:
Goodbye Lenin
In the art house:
The Raven
On video/dvd:
Thunder Rock
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