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Captivity
Captivity is not a movie afraid to borrow ideas. Indeed, if you were to walk in part way, you could be forgiven for momentarily thinking you were watching yet another instalment of the popular Saw series.
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This Is England
Shane Meadows' incendiary new film confirms his status as the most interesting young director working in Britain today. The story centres upon 12 year old Shaun who has lost his father in the (still continuing) Falklands conflict.
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La Vie En Rose
Edith Piaf is one of those singers, like Streisand, that you either
get or you don't. For some the gravelly trills of her voice evoke the soul of Paris, whilst to others it's like nails down a blackboard.
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28 Weeks Later
Seven months having passed since a rage virus broke out in Britain, the US military have deemed London safe for re-entry, with the first batch of refugees being re-established in a secure security zone. However, the virus has evolved, and when a new infection breaks out, a small band of survivors set out to flee the zone.
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Unknown
What do you get when you combine a film that is as successful as Saw (and its many sequels), one as influential as Reservoir Dogs, and as complex and layered as Memento? Unfortuantely what you get is Unknown.
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Fast Food Nation
Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), marketing executive at Mickey’s fast food chain, is sent to investigate their primary supplier after an independent report uncovers a case of “faecal matter” in the meat. Elsewhere, a group of Mexican illegal immigrants are put to work in the meat factory, in which unskilled labour, dangerous working conditions and bullying staff are a daily fact of life.
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Alpha Dog
Based on a true story, Alpha Dog follows three days in the life of a bunch of Californian youths who love nothing better than to party, get high, and try to live the gangster lifestyle they aspire too.
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300
A precise translation of Frank 'Sin City' Miller's graphic novel, 300 is based on the epic Battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartan soldiers fought against an insurmountable invading Persian Army. Simply put, it's the silliest, most bombastically entertaining two hours you could spend in a cinema, and rattles along at a great pace providing popcorn-chewing nonsense of the highest order.
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Inland Empire
As a prostitute starts to disrobe in a hotel room, the rabbits on the
television begin ironing. And that's just the beginning... Inland Empire is like nothing you will ever see or experience. This is David Lynch's most troubling outing yet (and that's saying an awful lot!) - it's also his longest, weighing in at a minute shy of three hours.
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The Illusionist
In the early 1900s, 'Eisenheim the Illusionist' (Edward Norton) brings his act to Vienna and becomes a hit, even attracting the attention of the Royal Crown Prince, Leopold (Rufus Sewell), who just so happens to be engaged to his childhood sweetheart Sophie (Jessica Biel).
