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Monkey Magic this week on Milestone Movies, as i delve deep into the epic long-running Simian franchise that is P.O.T.A.!

From the Ape-Mania and the rubber masks of the 60's and 70's, right up to today's flawless motion-capture masterpieces, it's a fascinating and thought-provoking series that seems set to run and run!

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No, seriously- hear me out! If you've never experienced the DragonsVerse, you need to get on board! I was as pleasantly surprised as anyone that this movie (and all of it's many spinoffs!) turned out as well as it did, and there was no real competition when it came to choosing my movie of the year for 2010!

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A brilliant slice of sci-fi that came out of nowhere (well, actually from South Africa)  to blow us all away, Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" is my movie of the year for 2009. An oddly affecting 'alien invasion' movie like nothing before or since, it was a decent-sized hit at the time, but deserves to have been enormous! 

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2008- the year that everything changes! Jon Favreau casts Robert Downey Jr in the role he was born to play, gives us a tiny glimpse of Samuel L Jackson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is born! Cinema and TV will never be the same again... 

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"The Greater Good..." The team behind Shaun Of The Dead strike Fried Gold once again with their awesome take on all-action cop thrillers... except it's in a sleepy English village!

Properly laugh-out-loud comedy alongside blistering action sequences, all delivered by the very finest of British character actors, Hot Fuzz is the second part of the 'Cornetto Trilogy', and it's amazing!

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"With No Power, Comes No Responsibility!" Kevin Smith returns once again to the 'Askewniverse' that he accidentally created with his low budget debut in 1994 with an absolute corker of a sequel; 2006's 'Clerks II'. Building on everything he'd done up to this point in his movies, Smith elevates the story of a bunch of slackers and dealers in an unexpectedly moving new direction, that for me is the high point of the Jay & Silent Bob movies. 

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You can't stop the signal!

Gather round, Browncoats, as i delve into Joss Whedon's superb space opera SERENITY, as well as it's parent TV series, the amazing FIREFLY!

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You've got red on you! 

For my money, the greatest British comedy film of all time, Shaun Of The Dead is an absolute gem! Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are amazing in Edgar Wright's movie debut, and the legacy of what they created here is still being seen to this day.

Join me for this week's episode of Milestone Movies!

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Perhaps a less well-known treat for us this week, as I take a look back at Wayne Kramer's Vegas-set 'The Cooler', which despite a trinity of fantastic character performances and a mesmerising story, was never really rewarded the success it deserved.

If you've never seen it, check it out, and then listen to this week's Milestone Movies Podcast! 

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With great power comes great responsibility. We're not yet quite at the dawn of the MCU, but we are thick in the beginnings of the Comic book movie boom, with Sam Raimi's pitch-perfect take on everybody's favourite web-slinger, which paved the way for a series which is still going from strength to strength today!