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Recovered Treasure: Dougal and the Blue Cat

Long before Wallace and Gromit's lunar excursion another iconic animated dog had already placed paw to moondust. In the 1960s and early 1970s The Magic Roundabout's Dougal was the most famous canine on British television and in his only movie outing (we shall draw a kindly veil over the recent CGI version) he took a very spacey trip there accompanied by a mysterious blue cat and with the voice of none other than the great Fenella Fielding ringing in his floppy ears.

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Here's Dougal

Recovered Treasure: Dougal and the Blue Cat DEK Long before Wallace and Gromit's lunar excursion another iconic animated dog had already placed paw to moondust. In the 1960s and early 1970s The Magic Roundabout's Dougal was the most famous canine on British television and in his only movie outing (we shall draw a kindly veil over the recent CGI version) he took a very spacey trip there accompanied by a mysterious blue cat and with the voice of none other than the great Fenella Fielding ringing in his floppy ears.

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5 live review: Easy A

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Easy A.

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Forgotten Gem: Into the Night

This week Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg are grave robbing serial killers Burke and Hare in the new movie from John Landis, the man behind the Blues Brothers and American Werewolf in London. But way back in the mid-80s Landis was just one of a pantheon of movie directors to play cameos in his own take on the so-called "yuppie punishment" genre. But despite that worrying conceit, Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer and even David Bowie (!), remains one of cinema's most underrated great movies.

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Instant Reaction: Black Swan

Darren Aronovsky, the director with Pi, The Wrestler and The Fountain to his credit, is about to give us Wolverine Origins 2 with Hugh Jackman. But before he takes the comic book blockbuster dollar he has taken us on a trip upmarket, to the ballet, and what a trip it is.

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5 live review: Paranormal Activity 2

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Paranormal Activity 2.

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Possession is nine tenths of the gore

Credit where credit's due, as far as I'm concerned the ideas in Lars von Triers's Antichrist were already explored with gruesome brilliance (and added cephalopod) in Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 movie Possession starring Sam Neill and featuring a staggering performance by Isabelle Adjani. With the long-awaited release of the movie on DVD you can verify this for yourselves.

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Documentary fiction and The Arbor

The Arbor, an extraordinary new movie from the Artangel stable explores a new way of getting to the truth of a real life story via the methods of screen fiction.

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5 live review: The Social Network

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Social Network.

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You Talking to Me

That time has come around again when I get to talk about what you are talking about on the Kermode Uncut blog, which this week includes the delights of the cinemas of your childhood and the terrors of Buried, Devil and Eat Pray Love (Vomit).

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