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  • Cloning, infidelity and sex addiction – it can only be the latest DVD releases

    Cloning, infidelity and sex addiction – it can only be the latest DVD releases

    Sex 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 Edge

    Catch some sci fi online: watch The Water's Edge

    Writen by Devon screenwriter Richard Standen, you can watch sci fi short The Water's Edge online

  • Avengers: chatty heroes assemble (review)

    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 Moorland

    Stoicism of the moor in Wingless Films' Sons of Moorland

    The filmmakers at Wingless Films are inspired by the moor for their latest short

  • Vanessa Paradis on here latest flick Cafe De Flore

    Vanessa Paradis on here latest flick Cafe De Flore

    If 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 Heads

    First glimpse of Eight Limbs Two Heads

    Youngsters 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)

    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)

    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-changing communication explored in Life to Come short

Life to Come, short

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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Five days to help fund the Exeter Blitz Project documentary

Exeter Blitz Project

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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Mayhem, adventure and stunts! The latest DVD releases reviewed

The Divide, movie

Post-apocalyptic mayhem, adventures in babysitting and cunning stunts – Tom Leins reviews this week’s top DVD releases.

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Back to familiar haunts for Mel Gibson in How I Spent My Summer Vacation (review)

How I Spent My Summer Vacation, movie

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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What is the future of Paignton Picture House Cinema?

Paignton Picture House in the 60s

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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The Lucky One drowns in schmaltz (review)

The Lucky One, movie

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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Bumper book sale and film show at Plymouth Central Library

Hugo

Why chose between ‘book’ or ‘film’, when you can have both?

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Cast and MCs/singers required for short film to be screened at international film festival

Ez, in short film Booo

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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Either you slack or you shoot: the pick of the week's releases

Jeff, Who Lives at Home, movie

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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