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  The Deep Blue Sea 2011

  ★★ Added

  Hester Collyer has separated from her husband judge William and is having a sordid little affair with former RAF pilot and war hero Freddie Page. The relationship is complicated by the fact that their feelings towards each other are not a precise match. And Sometimes it's these fine margins that make or break love.

  Not so much based on Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of the same name, director Terence Davies has more or less recreated a stage play for the…

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  Hunky Dory 2011

  ★★★★ Added

  A tempest is brewing in Swansea. Specifically, a rock odyssey combining Shakespeare's play and the music of the '70s. Viv May is an idealistic young drama teacher with a class of teenagers discovering themselves, each other and love in the scorching summer of 1976.

  Davey is in love with the gorgeous but flighty Stella. Dena wants to be with Evan who feels like an alien. Jake loves Vicki but can't tell best friend Lewis as she is his sister. Kenny…

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  Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back 2010

  ½ Added 1

  Reading. Walking in the park. Baking a cake. Cleaning your toilet. Cleaning someone else's toilet. With your own toothbrush. Sticking a fork repeatedly in your face. These are all things you can do that are infinitely more fun than watching Space Chimps 2. Notwithstanding the fact that this is a film for kids, it is quite possibly the most boring 76 minutes I have ever spent in front of a television screen in my life.

  The first animal sent into…

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  Stranger Than Fiction 2006

  ★★★★ Added 1

  Kay Eiffel: I read this, in this fantastically depressing book, that when you jump from a building, it's rarely the impact that actually kills you.
  Penny Escher: Well, I'm sure it doesn't help.

  Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is an unprepossessing IRS auditor with an unremarkable life. Then one day, he starts hearing a voice. Not a voice telling him what to do but rather, a voice describing precisely what he's doing, as he does it, and what he's thinking. Thoroughly…

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