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Purgatory Road - Twenty years after their father shot himself after losing all his savings (kept in the house!) in a robbery, a defrocked priest (Cairns) and his compliant brother...

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Every Time I Die - This is an intriguing and quite inventive idea, but its impact is somewhat blurred by the treatment and direction. Unsurprisingly, the film has polarised opinion on the...

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Witches, The - The most personable animatronic mice since Stuart Little took his final bow are the stars, at least in the second half, of this enormously fun new version of Roald...

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Max Winslow and the House of Secrets - Let's get one thing straight to start with: Max Winslow (Mikelle) is a girl. A near-genius, friendless computer nerd who retreated into her shell after her father left...

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Call to Spy, A - The wartime exploits of American-born Allied WW2 spy Virginia Hall (Thomas) are recounted in this absorbing if too-seldom-thrilling drama, which begins in 1940, when...

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Honest Thief - If you leave your brain at home and concentrate on the acting and action, you'll find this an acceptable thriller. Best not to dwell on the stale dialogue and unlikely...

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Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier meets Mills & Boon. In the golden days of Hollywood, real-life sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland starred in classic film adaptations of du...

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Dare, The - Saw meets The Hunt, in this graphically grisly horror flick set in America, but shot in Bulgaria with little-known English, Welsh and Bulgarian actors...

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