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The year may be coming to an end at the YSC, but we intend go out with a bang in a week filled with evil little creatures in our Christmas film Gremlins, incompetent spies in Johnny English Reborn and giant fighting robots in Real Steel. Movie Soc meanwhile are showing a more conventional Christmas film with Love Actually, whilst World Cinema celebrate the sport of table tennis in the Japanese film Ping Pong.
Joe Dante’s eighties cult classic returns to the screen at YSC this week in which failure to look after a very unusual cute and fluffy pet Gizmo leads him to inadvertently spawn an army of evil and mischievous little horrors that turn a small town's Christmas into a nightmare. A film of great enduring popularity and dark humour which with its wonderful dark humour Gremlins is still enormous fun.
Rowan Atkinson returns as Britain’s most accident-prone spy in the hit sequel to the 2003 original. Johnny must return to active service after years spent in training and uncover a lethal conspiracy. Along the way though, he must escape pursuers and fight his enemies including killer cleaners and even old friends, with disastrous and hilarious consequences.
Hugh Jackman stars as a retired boxer turned coach in a sports movie like no other as he enters the vicious world of robot boxing. After losing one too many fights though, he must pull himself together and creates a new robot Adam for his last chance at glory. Expect giant sized good old-fashioned cheesy fun as the sparks truly do begin to fly in this rather unusual and fresh take on the world of boxing movies.
Featuring a star studded cast (such as Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and Keira Knightly, among many others), all looking for love at the time of Christmas, Love Actually sells itself as the ultimate romantic comedy. There stories all intervene in a tale that aims to warm the heart during the cold days of Christmas.
Talented table tennis players and friends Tsukimoto (Arata) and Peco (Yosuke Kubozuka) enter the tournament only to realise they may end up having to play each other at a later stage. You may have seen several sports movies before, but probably never one focussing on table tennis as this Japanese film does, featuring several inventive match sequences, all the while maintaining a warm, sentimental atmosphere.
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