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Real Steel 2011

In a not too distant future, robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring. For these impending incarnations of ourselves, the battering of skin and bone has become a little too mundane, apparently. Instead, a form of fantasy boxing has emerged, indulging far more elaborate fancies of large-scale destruction as mindless entertainment. Charlie Kenton (Hugh

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Mars 2010

A highly entertaining slacker comedy that utilises rotoscope animation over live action footage to aesthetically pleasurable effect, Geoff Marslett’s Mars (2010) is the kind of film you can’t help falling a little in love with. Gently subversive in offhand, innocuous ways, it has fun parodying aspects of sci-fi and pop culture whilst never losing sight

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The Muppets 2011

Revived from a seemingly perennial slumber, not by profiteers, but men and women with a genuine affection for what these iconic characters meant to a generation of children, The Muppets are back with a vengeance. Thanks to Jason Segel, leading the way as both performer and co-writer with his Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) director, Nicholas

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