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  • Novel Behaviour

    Reviewed - Stranger than Fiction: Will Ferrell leads a top cast in a funny but touching fantasy in the manner of Being John Malkovich , writes Michael Dwyer.

  • Going all the way

    Reviewed - Shortbus: IF YOU know anything about John Cameron Mitchell's lubricious follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Itch , that singular gay musical from 2001, you will be aware that it contains scenes of actual sexual intercourse.

  • Nada. Zilch. Zip.

    Reviewed - Big Nothing: THE makers of Big Nothing are tempting fate - and critical put-downs - with the title of their slight, derivative comedy-thriller, for which Blood Simple Made Simple would fit as an accurate alternative. The influence of the Coen brothers hangs heavily over this self-consciously quirky exercise, but the movie never comes close to emulating its influences.

  • To have and have nots

    Reviewed - Breaking and Entering: Anthony Minghella's contemporary drama is a wayward but affecting tale of urban alienation, writes Michael Dwyer

  • The filth and the furries

    Reviewed - Flushed Away: A GREAT deal of work has, I'm sure, gone into Aardman Animation's first computer-generated feature. Indeed, the fact that the film centres on a contemporary World Cup final between England and Germany (yeah, right) suggests that the animators were so inundated they were unable to meet their initial deadline.

  • Shocking filler

    Reviewed - Deck the Halls: IT'S THAT magical time of the year again. It's that glorious season when Hollywood demonstrates that no vat of sewage is so malodorous that it can't be made saleable with the addition of a piece of tinsel and a Santa hat.

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  • Feathers fly over pinko penguins

    WHAT is it with penguins and politics? Last year, certain nuttier commentators on the American right tried to argue that March of the Penguins proved that there was no such thing as evolution and that Dick Cheney was the risen Christ (or something). Now the same zealots are suggesting that George Miller's hit animation Happy Feet , in which penguins encounter global warming, is anti-family, anti-religion and anti- Bush.

  • Silent night, movie night

    Hooray for global warming! The Temple Bar Cultural Trust has announced a season of Christmas films to be screened in Dublin's Meeting House Square on Thursday and Saturday evenings throughout December.

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