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Frontiers
Initially Frontiers comes across as a socio-politic take on the rioting that occurred in November 2005, where protesters violently took to the streets to voice their anger over the deaths of youths involving Parisian police.
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Redacted
Based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings where Abeer Qasim Hamza, a 14 year old Iraqi girl, was gang-raped, murdered, and burnt by U.S. soldiers, Redacted forthrightly deals with burgeoning anti-American sentiment, by, well, inflaming it.
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Sports Movie
Arriving in American cinemas last Halloween as The Comebacks, the inexplicable retitling of this film to Sports Movie is either worryingly trying to appeal to those fools that thought Scary/Date/Epic Movie franchise needed a sports spin-off, or even worse to the demographic that needs its movies so basically monikered that they know exactly what they are going to get.
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Chrysalis
A French cop movie with tinges of sci-fi around the edges, Chrysalis never really delivers on the iconic precedents that it so desperately apes (a hotchpotch of Blade Runner, The Fifth Element and to a lesser extent Virtuosity and Freejack, just with minimal action).
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The Water Horse: Legend Of The Deep
The Water Horse is a charming family tale, which like The Godfather before it with the word 'mafia' and George A Romero with the word 'zombie', never actually refers to the central aquatic beast of this film as 'The Loch Ness monster', but who are they kidding!
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Dan In Real Life
Dan In Real Life is a saccharine tinged tale which features Steve Carrell, presumably awash in the praise that greeted him for his turn in Little Miss Sunshine, playing a down-trodden widower.
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Dirty Harry: Ultimate Collector's Edition
Eclipsing the 5-disc Dirty Harry collection released in 2002, this new 6-disc set is truly the definitive release of these seminal vigilante films (before a threatened sixth film in the series possibly arrives in the trail of Rocky and Rambo's recent resurrections).
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Fatal Contact
From the unreadable opening credits (you’d have probably been hard pushed to see them in the cinema let alone at home!) to the surprisingly nihilistic ending, this unashamed vehicle for Wushu champion Jacky Wu Jing very nearly breaks new ground in the well trodden boxing epic.
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Big Stan
Big Stan is a significant film in Rob Schneider’s career in that it will be his first that opens cinematically solely in Bulgaria and will be banished direct to video in all other countries, including the United States.
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I Think I Love My Wife
Chris Rock is acclaimed as one of the best, most cutting edge stand up comedians on the planet. Revered by those themselves hailed as comedy gods, it’s almost beyond belief he would put his name to, let alone direct and star in, something as insipid as this romantic comedy.
