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Living alone with her father Erik (Eric Bana) in a snowy forest high above the Arctic Circle, Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is much like any other teenage girl. If that teenage girl has
Have you ever been to the Edinburgh Fringe? Every year in August, Edinburgh plays host to the world’s biggest and best Arts festival. There’s the cream of comedy, music, theatre (lots of
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It’s tough being a globetrotting assassin. You spend a lot of time lurking in dusty, sweaty third world regimes, eating crap food and gunning down dodgy foreign types in front of their
In John Carpenter’s seminal ’80s sci-fi/horror movie They Live (also made in the grip of a worldwide recession), the hero, a homeless construction worker, puts on a special pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses
Controversially winning the Golden Bear at 2008’s Berlin Film Festival, Brazilian director Jose Padilha’s pulse-pounding, breathless assault to the senses, Elite Squad was a difficult pill for many to swallow with its
When Wes Craven’s gruesome grindhouse classic The Last House On The Left was released back in 1971, its hugely successful advertising campaign included the now infamous tagline: “To avoid fainting, keep repeating