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An American HauntingWanna See Something Really Scary?

Horror stories are more chilling if they come with the promise, "based on a true story."
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Romance & CigarettesWhen Barton Fink Met Bruce Springsteen

James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken, Kate Winslet, show tunes - what's not to like about Romance & Cigarettes?
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Teens smoking in The Ketchup EffectWhy I Love The Censor

A furore over a prosthetic penis makes Mark Kermode affectionate toward the British Board Of Film Classification.
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Final Destination 3Child's Play

Faced with a choice of crappy children's films, Gwyneth Paltrow or Big Momma's House 2, our critic chooses death. Lots of death.
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The New WorldWere We Wrong About Malick?

With Pocahontas melodrama The New World, Terence Malick, director of Badlands and The Thin Red Line, seems to have come unstuck. Was it always style over substance?
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A Cock And Bull StoryI'm Not Alan Partridge

One is a philanderer, the other denies having slept with Courtney Love: Steve Coogan plays his alter-ego 'Steve Coogan' in A Cock And Bull Story.
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Where The Truth LiesWhen Will America Grow Up?

The US ratings system works against mature films, such as Atom Egoyan's Where The Truth Lies.
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ElizabethtownElizabeth The Worst

From Almost Famous to almost unwatchable, who'd have thought Cameron Crowe could fall so far?
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It's A Wonderful Death

In praise of dark and grisly entertainment for the young 'uns.
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Mario Van Peebles in Baadasssss!Sweetback's Setback

How a son's confession ensured the censorship of his father's most famous film.
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RevolverGuy Fawked Up

Watching Guy Ritchie's Revolver will make you want to pour petrol on your head and set fire to yourself. And not in a good way.
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Green StreetThis Sporting Life

The hooliganism of Green Street isn't big or clever. Nor is the film itself.
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The CaveHollywood Eats B-Movies For Breakfast

With The Cave bearing a striking similarity to British underground horror The Descent, Mark Kermode rakes over the parasitic relationship between Hollywood and its low-budget cousins.
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The IslandIsland Of Lost Souls

After The Island flopped in the US, the critics took their revenge on director Michael Bay. It's just a shame that, for once, he's made a half-decent blockbuster.
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RomanceWinterbottom Spanks Ben Dover

It's back to business as usual for the R-18 certificate after the Video Appeals Committee reached its conclusion over the distinction between porn and explicit arthouse.
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9 Songs9 Songs, 9 Sex Tapes

The appearance of art movies with explicit sex in them on DVD has led to an appeal from the distributors of hardcore material.
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War Of The WorldsKeeping Us In The Dark

If distributors don't preview a film to the press it's going to be a turkey, right? Not necessarily, in this day and age of paranoia about piracy and an anxious reliance on 'Boffo Opening Box Office'.
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We Don't Live Here AnymoreInside The Actor's Studio

Thesps should really stay out of the decision-making process, if We Don't Live Here Anymore is anything to go by.
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Linda Lovelace in Deep ThroatBride Of Chucky

Porn exposé documentary Inside Deep Throat is missing the testimony of Linda Lovelace's abusive husband. Mark Kermode recalls his encounter with Charles 'Chuck' Traynor.
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Wookies in Star Wars Revenge Of The SithStar Bores: Revenge Of The Fans

A blow-by-blow account of the terrible disappointment that has been the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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