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Positive Expression

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Mark Kermode|15:26 PM, Friday, 28 October 2011

A couple of weeks back I asked you for suggestions of things you should do rather than don't do when going to the cinema - to go into a secondary Code of Conduct. You came back with loads of good ideas - here I pick out some of my favourites.

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Crowning Cronenberg

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Mark Kermode|15:31 PM, Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Veteran horror director David Cronenberg is about to be awarded a Fellowship by the BFI at this year's London Film Festival. I gave him a Kermode Fellowship a few years back and in my opinion he has given us some of the most extraordinary, disturbing and thought provoking films in all of cinema.

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Scary Kids

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Mark Kermode|17:17 PM, Friday, 21 October 2011

I've been thinking a lot about Lynne Ramsay's new film We Need To Talk About Kevin and how it fits into a sub-genre that really interests me - movies that explore a strange fear of children and young people. Just why is it that we seem to be afraid of our own kids?

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Source Of Contagion

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Mark Kermode|10:30 AM, Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Director Steven Soderbergh has got a new film out this week - a 'real life' thriller about a pandemic that sweeps through the population and the resulting panic. But this film and others like it owe a big debt to the horror genre and such gems as George Romero's The Crazies.

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Accentuate The Positive

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Mark Kermode|11:00 AM, Friday, 14 October 2011

Several people have suggested to me that the Cinema Code of Conduct is a bit negative and that what we need now is a complementary guide about what you can do to really enhance the film going experience. I'm looking for your input - together we can make a difference...

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The Greatest Movie Never Made

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Mark Kermode|15:30 PM, Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Lynne Ramsay's new film We Need To Talk About Kevin is released next week. It's a terrific adaptation of a difficult book and only her third feature to date. This is because after her first two films she spent years unsuccessfully trying to make The Lovely Bones. This got me thinking about all the other cherished but never realised projects and wondering what's the greatest movie never made?

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We Need To Talk About Kevin

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Triers Of A Clown

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Mark Kermode|14:06 PM, Friday, 7 October 2011

Lars von Trier has issued a statement saying that he will never speak in public again after it was revealed that he may face prosecution for the comments he made at a press conference in Cannes this year. Is his threat real and should he really be prosecuted for what he said?

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Looking Forward

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Mark Kermode|10:28 AM, Wednesday, 5 October 2011

People are always asking me what films are coming up that I'm really looking forward to. I usually say the ones that I don't know anything about yet, but here I pick a selection of upcoming movies that I think could be stand outs - and ask what new releases you are eager to see.

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