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  • GOTTA FLAP, GOTTA DANCE

    REVIEWED - HAPPY FEET: Happy Feet is a happy pairing of ravishing CGI and morally worthy eco-fable, writes Donald Clarke

  • GIVE US ALL A BREAK

    REVIEWED - THE HOLIDAY: Loaded with stars, The Holiday marries the worst of British and Hollywood romcom conventions, writes Donald Clarke

  • THE DULLEST STORY EVER TOLD

    REVIEWED - THE NATIVITY STORY: CATHERINE Hardwicke, director of Thirteen, that searing investigation of teenage breakdown, has said that she was attracted to this project - which is exactly what its title implies - by the opportunity to treat the Virgin Mary as an ordinary youth bearing a far from ordinary burden. 

  • BABY YOU CAN BURN MY FLAG

    REVIEWED - THE US VS JOHN LENNON: THE title of this diverting, if unsurprising, VH1 documentary promises the viewer ghastly revelations concerning the United States government's covert campaign against the most political of The Beatles.

  • BROOMSTICK BOYS

    REVIEWED - THE COVENANT: RIGHT. So there are these four male teenage witches - named, in the manner of a football supporters club, The Sons of Ipswich - who spend their days casting mostly benign magic about their posh private school.

  • THE DEVIL WITHIN HER?

    REVIEWED - REQUIEM:   THE true events that inspired The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a turgid 2005 thriller with a perceptible Christian agenda, are recounted with considerably greater sobriety in this chilling, uncomfortably well-acted film from the promising young director Hans-Christian Schmid.

  • HE'S A HIGH FLYER

    REVIEWED - SPECIAL: OVERSTRETCHED, even at a brief 81 minutes, Special feels like a clever, low-budget exercise, rather than a fully grown feature film. But it's an engaging, funny business featuring a decent performance from Michael Rapaport and a script packed with mischievously enjoyable conspiracy theories.

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  • Attack of the gnarly old he-men

    There's nothing like flogging an old hit franchise to revive a flagging career. That appears to be the motto of several actors whose box-office glory days seemed far behind them.

  • To the Light House in Smithfield

    DUBLIN will get a new four-screen arthouse cinema late next year with the opening of Light House at Smithfield. The 600-seat, custom-built venue is proceeding with investment from developers Fusano Properties Ltd and grants from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Cultural Cinema Consortium, a joint initiative of the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board.

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