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This is a brilliantly assembled trailer mashup of Star Wars and Boogie Nights:

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This is a very clever countdown from 100 to 1 using different movie clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU

The films used in the clip are:
100. Night of the Living Dead
99. Laura
98. Dead Poet’s Society
97. Blade Runner
96. The Lost Weekend
95. Ocean’s 11
94. Star Wars
93. Midnight Run
92. It Came From Outer Space
91. The Right Stuff
90. The Fugitive
89. The French Connection
88. Back to [...]

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The Fountain is an ambitious sci-fi from director Darren Aronofsky set amidst three different time periods in the past, present and future.
Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz star in multiple roles across time periods stretching from the 16th to the 26th century. It split audiences when it opened at cinemas a few months ago.
Flawed [...]

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Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days has won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

A harrowing depiction of a woman (played by Anamaria Marinca) trying to help her friend get an abortion in Communist-era Romania, it was hotly tipped in a very strong field.
> IMDb entry for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and [...]

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I just finished doing my regular Sunday morning film review on TalkSPORT and one of the presenters (Rhodri Williams) asked me about the Channel 4 program last night called 50 Films to See Before You Die.

It was actually shown on Film 4 last year, to celebrate the channel’s launch on Freeview and featured a list of [...]

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