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Splice
Splice is the story of two genetic engineer scientists whose ambitious side-project creates a creature that would have anti-stem cell campaigners crowing “We told you so, God-playing heathens!”
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The Losers
With a touch of the heist, loyalty testing and very real and flawed personalities, there is a lot more to this story than merely an inflated comic book caper full of action sequences.
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The Brothers Bloom
The Blooms grow up to be globetrotting fraudsters from a bygone era – executing complex and ingenious con tricks on their rich, hapless victims.
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The Last Exorcism
This slightly tongue-in-cheek horror takes us modern cynics at our word, and presents us with an exorcist who no more believes in demons than Richard Dawkins believes in deities.
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Perrier’s Bounty
The best stories, characters, images and ideas persist in the mind when the credits roll, but Perrier’s Bounty meekly expires as the screen fades to black.
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Chloe
Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.
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Ponyo
Powerful otherworldliness and not a hint of 3D CGI in sight. Ponyo’s failure to attract academy nominations has baffled critics.
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Bunny and the Bull
Tragedy never really enters The Mighty Boosh world – it is too wacky, too detached from reality for that – but Bunny and the Bull is as moving as it is funny.
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Coco Before Chanel
To talk about Coco before the founding of Chanel seems somehow redundant, like writing a biopic of Scott that ends as he sets out for the Antarctic, or one of Churchill that ends with his first election to Parliament in 1900.
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In The Loop
Politicians lie, cheat, ass-kiss and then lie some more, just to get ahead. And there you have the basic premise to Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop.
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