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Published: 26 February 2009

Also on release this week

• The International (15): This is all very post-credit crunch, a film where the banks are baddies and behind a dastardly plot to use the world’s wars to increase their shareholders’ bank balances.
Clive Owen stars as an Interpol agent who wants to bring to the dock one of the world’s most powerful banks. They think they are behind a trail of arms deals, shady money transfers and cash laundering. But the bankers won’t give up their bloody lust for moolah easily.

• The Unborn (18): This tasteless horror starring Gary Oldman is based on a tale of a spirit that likes to slip inside your soul when you’re not looking and cause you rather a large dose of pain and misery.
Our hero Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) is not having an easy time of it. She is plagued by horrible nightmares, haunted by an evil-looking nipper with terrible, staring eyes, and seems to be stalked by hounds from hell.
Then, one day, after an accident, she notices her eyes are slowly changing colour – and then is then told that she is one half of a set of twins, but her brother died in the womb.
It all gets a little spooky, as the evil spirit tries to take over the soul of her deceased sibling.

• Franklyn (15): This fantastical imagining of London today and London of the future bends four people’s personal stories together.
We meet a godless vigilante living in a time when you have to be religious and a father desperately searching for a missing son. There is a lovestruck Londoner trying to romance his childhood sweetheart and an art student who films her own suicide attempts then uses them as installations.
It’s all pretty weird.

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