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Although not Luis Bunuel at his very best (it lacks the bite of earlier eviscerations of polite society like The Exterminating Angel ) this 1972 Oscar winner still finds the Spanish surrealist wielding a mean scalpel as six dinner-party guests are constantly frustrated in their search for the promised meal. …

While occasionally flirting with full-blown fantasy ( The Tooth Fairy ), Graham Joyce more often writes novels that exist on the very edges of the genre, in which elements of the supernatural are delicately woven into the real-world plots like gossamer threads ( Smoking Poppy , The Facts Of Life …

A quest movie with an edu-tainment thrust, Will and Kate Spicer’s doc charts the siblings’ aim to fulfil their Devon-based bro Tom’s lifelong dream to meet Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Breaching camp Metallica is tricky but Tom’s Fragile X Syndrome complicates it: he struggles with crowds, noise and breaks in routine, …

With all of the carping that Jaws is culpable for the summer blockbuster, it’s often forgotten that this spectacle of the future is also a product of its time. OK, so having cop/family man Brody (Roy Scheider) save the day hardly chimed with the counter-culture ideal, but Jaws , for …

Director Radu Mihaileanu ( Le Concert ) brings his usual feel good humanism to this comedy-drama about Muslim women on love strike. In an unspecified Arabic-speaking village, the wives – who’ve long had the dangerous task of fetching water from a mountain spring – take action, refusing their husbands sex …

Dragon’s Dogma is like a precociously intelligent teenager, in the sense that it has ideas beyond those of its peers, but struggles to explain itself. There’s no better example than the game’s rushed opening, which drops you into the armored boots of a warrior about to face a giant chimera. …

There’s a fantastic moment halfway through Max Payne 3. The titular hero has reached his boiling point, shaved his head, and gone underground into Sao Paolo’s gritty favelas. Things are looking down. A local gang has robbed him of guns, watch, and even his sunglasses. He’s been kicked into a …

“I’m only harming myself,” reckons one of London’s casual cokeheads. Oh yeah? Rachel Seifert’s rigorous doc follows the “war on drugs” from Colombian jungles to Wire -tapped Baltimore to highlight the appalling human cost involved in snorting the occasional gram. Interviewing everyone from presidents to prisoners, Seifert lays bare a …

Episode 2.07 Writers : David Benioff and DB Weiss Director : David Nutter THE ONE WHERE Jon is tempted, Jaime mounts an escape bid and Daenerys goes in search of her stolen dragons. VERDICT Oh dear Dany. Perhaps if you’d spent a little less time moaning like a spoiled brat …

Who is Michael E Briant? It’s a question even pretty knowledgeable Doctor Who fans can be forgiven for scratching their heads at. Briant helmed half a dozen of the Time Lord’s ‘70s adventures (including much-loved tales “The Green Death” and “Robots Of Death”), but has a lower profile than some …