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If you didn't quite get what you wanted for Christmas but you have money from grannies and aunties you didn't know existed burning a whole in your pocket then there is a solution.

I'm not one for endorsing products but when it comes to Last Exit To Nowhere I make an exception.

Without a doubt the makers of the coolest t-shirts on the web my wardrobe is full of these t-shirts and little else.

The ethos of the company is to take key products, companies and locations from famous films and put them on a shirt in very subtle way.

You never see the name of the film, always a subtle reference.

For example I have a Hill Valley High t-shirt (Back To The Future), an Amity Island Police shirt (Jaws) and Mighty Mick's Gym shirt (Rocky).

Recent inclusions to my collection are a Nostromo shirt (Aliens) and a Walley World (National Lampoons) shirt.

The shirts are not only clever they are also fantastically designed and very desirable.

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British director Matthew Parkhill assembles a vampire-tastic cast for this eerie tale from Universal.

Starring Twilight's Rachelle Lefevre and True Blood's Stephen Moye, Lefevre plays divorcee Mary Kee who is being harassed by her ex-husband Steven (Ed Quinn - True Blood), and a mysterious female who claims to be a voice from Mary's past.

When Mary becomes unsettled by the creepy caller named Rose she attempts to put an end to the calls but it quickly becomes clear that Rose won't let that happen and responds in chilling fashion.

This is a very well-acted dark and creepy encounter, it can appear slightly formulaic at times but all in all it's a very watchable chiller that will have you on the end of your seat.

Well if you are after a very warped, very gruesome and totally twisted film to watch this Halloween then look nowhere else.

War Games is uber-grim.

Inspired by true events, War Game sees a group of friends hunted down by psychopathic ex-soldiers, who turn their holiday into hell.

The friends quickly begin to realize that they are alone in the woods (of course) and that they are quickly and systematically being brutally picked off one by one.

They don't know why and they don't know who is next.

This is not a film for the feint-hearted, it's at times unsettling and displays some of the most graphic horror scenes I have seen.

In the first of our Halloween themed reviews we take a look at chilling drama The Clinic from Universal Studios.

Supposedly based on factual events involing abductions The Cinic is as far removed from being a true story as it could be.

Set in 1979 the story follows a couple as they journey through Australia, things take a sinister turn when the couple take shelter in a remote hotel.

When Cameron leaves heavily pregnant Beth briefly to get some food, he returns to find she has vanished.

A hotel receptionist seemingly knows more than he is letting on and Cameron starts off on his mission to find Beth.

We quickly become aware of what has happened to her when we see here alone in an isolated clinic in a bathtub of ice with a very fresh C section. And no baby.

This is a chilling tale with plenty of suspense and twists, be warned there is nothing happy going on and it is very dark.

The Clinic is released for the first time on DVD from 17th October 2011.

It's not often I sit in a cinema and watch a film I don't know anything about.

It's also not that often that I watch a film that brings back so many memories of watching films some 25 years ago.

THE TREE OF LIFE (12a)

Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain

PLOT: There isn't a conventinal one. This is the fragmented story of a family with three boys, whose mother (Chastain) opens the film by telling us in narration the difference between living like a force of nature or with good grace. The boys' father (Pitt) believes in discipline and tough love. Sean Penn plays one of the grown-up sons, Jack, as an architect who feels lost in a shiny new world that's far removed from leafy suburbia in the 1950s' Midwest.

GOOD POINTS: Cinephiles will be itching to see this just as much as any teenager wants the new Harry Potter movie. Not only is 67-year-old director Terrence Malick one of the most revered filmmakers, but this is only the fourth film he's made in almost 40 years since his stunning debut with Martin Sheen's Badlands in 1973. As usual, he's directing his own script and he takes great care to emphasise how wonderful the Earth is all around us. At the heart of the film is a genuinely human insight into what makes us tick through good times and bad. For mature viewers, it will bring back lots of memories about being a child. Any literate 12-year-old lucky enough to be taken to see this as an alternative to a throwaway blockbuster, might even begin to appreciate their parents more!

BAD POINTS: For every step forward Malick takes with The Tree of Life, he also seems to go wandering off in any old direction in a way that the overlong 139-minute running time cannot sustain. There are some stunning examples of fine landscape photography, but at times it feels as if David Attenborough has sneaked behind the camera to make a history-of-the-universe nature documentary when we want to learn about the family instead.

SHOULD I SEE IT? Showing only at Cineworld Broad St and the Electric Cinema, Station St, The Tree... might not live long. Malick fans who know what to expect should be brave - and go for it.

GRAHAM YOUNG

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Luke Treadaway, Nick Frost

PLOT: This low-budget British sci-fi actioner is the directorial debut of Joe Cornish, who used to be half of comedy act Adam And Joe.

IT really looked like it was over for the Pirates franchise after the third film came out four years ago.

Mainly because it was such a disappointment after the brilliant 2003 debut of Captain Jack Sparrow.

IT'S shaping up to be a hot summer, and we don't just mean the weather.

There's a host of big sci-fi and fantasy movies on the way. Here's your at a glance guide:

PRIEST (May 13):
Post-apocalyptic thriller set in an alternate world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. When the niece of warrior priest Paul Bettany is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, he breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to save her, joined on his crusade by a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former priestess with magical fighting skills.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 : ON STRANGER TIDES (May 20):
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz), and he's not sure if it's love or if she's just a con artist using him to find the Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard Blackbeard's ship, the scene's set for delightful piratical banter between Johhny Depp and Deadwood's Ian McShane.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (May 27):
This is how it all begins. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr became Professor X and Magneto, they were the best of friends, discovering their powers for the first time. James McEvoy and Bill Milner eventually fall out, sparking the conflict continued in such fine style by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the other X-Men movies.

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EAGLE-eyed movie fans who bothered sitting through the credits of Iron Man 2 were rewarded with a tantalising glimpse of Marvel Comics' next superhero film, Thor.

As well as sharing a few cast members, like Clark Gregg as an FBI agent and an uncredited Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury (who you'll only see if you hang on to the end of Thor), the two movies feel very much alike.