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X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
Directed by Brett Ratner

THE X-MEN comics had legs. The simple premise of human DNA mutating to produce a race of people with super-powers gives writers a never-ending pool of scenarios. > more

How the Wild West grew up

DOWN IN THE VALLEY
Directed by David Jacobson

DOWN In The Valley has the feel of John Steinbeck’s classic novel Tortilla Flat.
Steinbeck created a southern Californian world where there is no tomorrow, a sleepy town full of drifters whose imaginations allowed them to ignore the hard reality of their lot: in Down In The Valley, lead man Ed Norton’s character is a drifter whose cowboy fantasy is his reality. > more

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