• ANIMATION COMPETITION FOR UNDER 12s

Young filmmakers are being challenged to make an animated trailer to promote their favourite book.

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• THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, JOHN CLEESE INTERVIEW

Klaatu Barrada Nikto, might be something you’d expect John Cleese to have said back in his Python days. But the catchphase (!) is one that made the The Day the Earth Stood Still famous (or was it the other way round), and Sir Cleese (surely he’s been Knighted by now) plays Dr Barnhardt in

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• GONZO, TRAILER

Gonzo – the documentary about Hunter S Thompson narrated by Johnny Depp, is out on December 19, we have the trailer.

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• CHE

Part one of Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che Guevara staring Benicio Del Toro opens on January 1 (with part two hot on its heels on February 20) and we’ve got an early teaser trailer of the ‘epic’.

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• DOH CANADA

Ben Stiller talks about Canadian Comedy in Megan Raney’s latest feature

It’s been almost a year since we told you about former Plymouth student Megan Raney’s latest feature documentary called The History Of Canadian Humour: If It’s Not Too Much Trouble (read our original story).

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• COMEDY BEGINS IN EARNEST

The English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival has already hit the ground running with two showings of the Oska Bright films at South Devon College, but what chuckle fests in are in line for the rest of the week?

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• FLY US TO THE MOON, TOO

Did you know that the film Fly Me to the Moon “will break new ground as the first-ever computer animated film designed, created and produced from first frame, exclusively for the 3D experience?”

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TAKEN TRAILER

If only the former government operatives chosen for these films occasionally worked in the benefits or tax departments, then we’d know that the skills they acquired would be obfuscation, confusion and error in a mess of bureacratic intrigue, but no. In Taken, which opens on September 26, has Liam Neeson as a former government

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VIEW FROM HERE – DEEP WATER Q&A

The View From Here, the South Devon celebration of film and moving image, is back for a week of superb events from December 1 to December 5, so leave a space in your diary.

Last year, one of the many highlights of the festival was the showing of Deep Water, the film about Donald

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