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Brought to you by two of the guys who wrote The Descendants and the studio that gave us Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. What more do you need to know?

The Way, Way Back premieres July 5th.

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Simon

Danny Boyle’s unsuccessful films are more interesting than most directors’ good ones. Trance – a genre-bending heist/psychological thriller hybrid – is not one of his unsuccessful movies.

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Grade: A+

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The Korean director Park Chan-wook has made at least one film – Oldboy, allegedly being remade by Spike Lee – that is generally considered to be a classic. I don’t know if Park’s first film in English, Stoker, will ever approach that film’s critical acclaim, but I have no doubt if it had been shot in Korean, it might well have been (sometimes, subtitles really do make a difference to an audience’s perceptions).

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Hitch & Alma Reville

Hitchcock is a fabulist take on Hitchcock’s life while making Psycho. It opens with Hitchcock introducing the film in a manner we can recognise from television’s classic Alfred Hitchcock Presents following a murder that will play into the story in a pretty dramatic (and also cheeky) way.

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Grade: B

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Cheryl, O'Brien

At the age of 38, Mark O’Brien, a quadriplegic who had to spend all but a few hours of day in an iron lung, decided he wanted to lose his virginity. The Sessions is based on his experience and an article he wrote entitled On Sex and the Disabled.

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We have two copies of Our Family Wedding on DVD to giveaway. To win, sign up for our twitter feed at http://www.twitter.com/eclipsemagazine and send an email to contest@eclipsemagazine.com with Our Family Wedding in the subject line. With your User ID and full contact info. I will select two winners next Wednesday, July 21, to get the DVD. See, simple. Check out the details after the break.

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