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From the creators of Oscar winning animation shorts "Wallace and Gromit" comes the first feature length film in a set of five contracted by Spielberg's Dreamworks company. Not only is this film great fun but you appreciate it all the more when you realise it took around six years to produce the finished product, with two or three seconds of footage recorded daily [Hmmm, 2 seconds a day for 6 years gives 70 minutes of film, and 3 seconds a day gives 105 minutes of film, okay that sounds about right!].

I went to this film knowing practically nothing about it apart from the title and the fact that I saw Tom Green on the poster. For those of you who are MTV-illiterate, Tom Green is the absolutely crazy presenter of "The Tom Green Show" which is like no hosted show you've ever seen before. Ranging from setting himself on the fire in the street to putting a dead cow's head in his parents' bed, Tom is the ultimate reaction seeker and his shows on MTV Dark (late at night!) are always good for a laugh if you like that kind of thing.

"Cecelia was the first to go." And so starts the first film directed by Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford and miscast daughter of Michael Corleone in the Godfather III. This was my second time seeing this film, and I enjoyed it even more the second time round. The film centres around the five daughters of the Lisbon family 25 years ago in Michigan - Cecelia [13], Lux [14], Bonnie [15], Mary [16] and Terese [17].

From director Bryan Singer ("Usual Suspects", "X-Men") comes an adaptation of a novella of the same name by Stephen King about a former Nazi officer living in the USA who is recognised by a smart local teenager called Tom Bowden.

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