This week Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg are grave robbing serial killers Burke and Hare in the new movie from John Landis, the man behind the Blues Brothers and American Werewolf in London. But way back in the mid-80s Landis was just one of a pantheon of movie directors to play cameos in his own take on the so-called "yuppie punishment" genre. But despite that worrying conceit, Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer and even David Bowie (!), remains one of cinema's most underrated great movies.
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Darren Aronovsky, the director with Pi, The Wrestler and The Fountain to his credit, is about to give us Wolverine Origins 2 with Hugh Jackman. But before he takes the comic book blockbuster dollar he has taken us on a trip upmarket, to the ballet, and what a trip it is.
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Paranormal Activity 2.
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Credit where credit's due, as far as I'm concerned the ideas in Lars von Triers's Antichrist were already explored with gruesome brilliance (and added cephalopod) in Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 movie Possession starring Sam Neill and featuring a staggering performance by Isabelle Adjani. With the long-awaited release of the movie on DVD you can verify this for yourselves.
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The Arbor, an extraordinary new movie from the Artangel stable explores a new way of getting to the truth of a real life story via the methods of screen fiction.
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Social Network.
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That time has come around again when I get to talk about what you are talking about on the Kermode Uncut blog, which this week includes the delights of the cinemas of your childhood and the terrors of Buried, Devil and Eat Pray Love (Vomit).
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As you probably know, there's a Hollywood remake by the Cloverfield guy of my favourite film of last year, Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In. But how does it measure up? Can it measure up? And did you ever see an American remake of a European movie that did measure up?
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As a younger man I was among those who delighted in the era of the Video Nasty. For me and many like me it was an opportunity to expose ourselves to some of the worst and the best horror movies of the 70s and 80s, from Driller Killer to Cannibal Apocalypse. But as revealed in Jake West's captivating new documentary, the real life warping of fragile minds took place behind the scenes to make sure the Video Recordings Act of 1984 was made law.
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I've just seen Rhys Ifans as Howard Marks in the new movie Mr Nice, coming soon is Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in that Facebook movie, the social network, and for years now I've noticed a number of very good actors sustaining very good careers inhabiting the identities of familiar, real people. It occurs to me that there is an opportunity here.
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Sometimes the scariest movies aren't the ones with the obvious monsters in them.
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