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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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|  | | Will Smith, in Bad Boys II
If it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, chances are it's going to be loud, fast and showing on several screens at the multiplex. And make loads of money. Jim White asks one of the most successful producers in Hollywood if an Oscar isn't the one thing he really wants.
Spellbound
The award-winning and compelling documentary that follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in the States. What lies behind the phenomenon that sees 9m kids a year punish themselves to spell obscure words they'll never need?
Kill Bill
Well, it's been a long time coming, but Tarantino is back 6 years after his last outing, Jackie Brown. Matthew Sweet would rather he'd had to wait a little longer.
Still Rockin'
A year after his death, George Harrison's friends assembled for a tribute concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Critic Robert Sandall, director David Leland and percussionist Ray Cooper reflect on the rock concert feature film.
In the multi-plex
Finding Nemo
In the art house
Raising Victor Vargas
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