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Shrek Forever After: ogre the hill

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Flabby, fatigued, housebroken, over the hill. That description applies as much to the Shrek franchise as it does to its ogre protagonist in Shrek Forever After. The fourth (and supposedly final) film in the animated series picks up with a middle-aged Shrek wrangling with the drudgery of day-to-day family life. Worn down by days of burping babies, the evenings of repetitive dinner table jokes and the nights without sleep, the ogre is in the grips of a mid-life crisis.

Futurama defrosted for new season

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One day in February 2003, there was a massive disturbance in the force, as if the voices of millions of geeks suddenly cried out in anguish. They’d just learnt that Matt Groening’s animated science-fiction series, Futurama, had been cancelled in its fourth season by the bigwigs at Fox Television. The off-the-wall television show originally ran for a respectable four seasons between 1999 and 2003, but was never as much of a hit as Groening’s other show, The Simpsons. Everyone knows The Simpsons’ catch phrases, but

Why so serious, man?

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How does a serious man live with purpose when life often feels like an unfunny prank? And why do bad things happen to good people? Those are but two of the many bedevilling questions that drive A Serious Man, the

A Greek travesty

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Hollywood’s “summer” blockbuster season is officially upon us, and it has already delivered its first turkey in the form of Clash of the Titans. The film is a remake of the 1981 movie of the same name, which was released in the infancy of the special effects-driven Hollywood blockbuster