 Cloning, infidelity and sex addiction – it can only be the latest DVD releasesSex addiction, incestuous cloning and infidelity are all on the menu in this week’s DVD round-up.  Catch some sci fi online: watch The Water's EdgeWriten by Devon screenwriter Richard Standen, you can watch sci fi short The Water's Edge online  Avengers: chatty heroes assemble (review)In the world of superheroes, bonecrunching showdowns are usually the order of the day, but in Joss Whedon's Avengers it's the dialgue that wins out  Stoicism of the moor in Wingless Films' Sons of MoorlandThe filmmakers at Wingless Films are inspired by the moor for their latest short  Vanessa Paradis on here latest flick Cafe De FloreIf you've been wondering what Vanessa Paradis has been up to since the knife-throwing fun of The Girl on the Bridge back in 1999, then worry no more, we have a non-exclusive Q&A with the French star of song and screen about her latest movie Cafe De Flore  First glimpse of Eight Limbs Two HeadsYoungsters be warned, be careful when you search for monsters in the woods, you might find something even scarier  Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a ponderous story from the Anatolian Steppes (review)Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a crafted, ponderous story, firmly rooted in ‘the cinema of slowness’  A story about death, celebrates life – The Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (review)Death has long permeated Werner Herzog's oeuvre so it’s relatively unsurprising that his newest documentary is an examination of the death penalty
Life to Come short asks ‘What would you do if you received a letter from the one you loved who’d departed from your life?’
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The 70th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz has been remembered with a verbatim theatre piece, and a film of the testimonies and performance needs your help to be completed
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Post-apocalyptic mayhem, adventures in babysitting and cunning stunts – Tom Leins reviews this week’s top DVD releases.
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There’s a comfortable familiarity to Mel Gibson’s latest vehicle, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Simon Roger Key settles in
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Believed to be the oldest purpose-built cinema in Europe, the Paignton Picture House boasts a prestigious history that dates back to the birth of cinema. Once patronised by the likes of Agatha Christie, the cinema closed in 1999, and these memories now threaten to be lost in time. Sean Wilson speaks to two people who want to see the cinema kept open for historic and aesthetic purposes: projection enthusiast, Stuart Saunders and London-based, Torquay bred filmmaker, Anthony Bueno
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Sean Wilson watches The Lucky One and finds there’s a fundamental problem with a movie that expects us to take a vested interest in a character who has as much psychological depth as a Thunderbird puppet
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Why chose between ‘book’ or ‘film’, when you can have both?
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Actor, MC, singer or composer, Booo, a short teen love story – a cross between 8 Mile and Fish Tank – needs you
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This week’s selection of films, features the efforts of our American cousins and one of them star’s the rather controversial actor, Mel ‘I’m not a racist’ Gibson.
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