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Mr Popper’s Penguins. Dir. Mark Waters. 20th Century Fox. 2011.
Mr Popper’s Penguins. Dir. Mark Waters. 20th Century Fox. 2011. 150 150 Nicholas Martin

Figure One Jim Carrey and Penguins. It does not get any better. Think Beethoven but with Penguins. Try to spot the difference between the CGI penguins and the real ones.…

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Song of the Sea. Dir. Tomm Moore. StudioCanal. 2014
Song of the Sea. Dir. Tomm Moore. StudioCanal. 2014 1920 1040 Kirsty Laverack

Figure 1 – Film poster Song of the Sea is full of magic, mystery and mayhem. Ben, a ten year old Irish boy, discovers that his mute sister Saoirse is…

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Ginger Snaps. Dir. John Fawcett. Motion International.2000
Ginger Snaps. Dir. John Fawcett. Motion International.2000 1200 799 Lucy Gravil

Figure 1: A woodcut of The Wolf of Ansbach “B, I Just Got The Curse” Figure 2: A woodcut of Peter Stumpp In his direction of the initial werewolf attack…

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Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. MGM Films. 2001.
Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. MGM Films. 2001. 150 150 Lucy Sutherland

Robert Luketic’s 2001 film Legally Blonde follows sorority girl Elle Woods’ journey at Harvard Law School, with her chihuahua, Bruiser. Bruiser is used as a demonstrative device of Elle’s hyper-femininity…

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