Downbeat and atmospheric adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's bestseller, starring Jennifer Lawrence as a girl searching for her father in the bleak setting of the Ozark mountains.

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I first saw the Skyline trailer last year, and it looked impressive in a post-pub sort of way, so I was looking forward to its release despite it being from the Strause brothers, makers of the much-maligned AVP: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem. However I'm now coming late to this on DVD, and in the meantime it's picked up negative word of mouth to almost rival its antecedent.

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If ever a title was guaranteed to get me in a cinema, it’s Cowboys and Aliens (although the strategy didn’t work for Zombie Strippers). When I was a kid, my dad was a big cowboy fan, and I couldn’t understand why he’d watch a formulaic dusty shoot-out in a one-horse town when all the universe beckoned, along with an infinite variety of scaly enemies. Forty years later, and it’s true that you  turn into your parents… So I went into Cowboys and Aliens hoping for a 80/20 mix in that order, and this is just one of the things...

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