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Mark Kermode | 16:16 PM, Tuesday, 7 February 2012

The Woman In Black is an old-fashioned ghost story that aims to scare you through suggestion rather than special effects. Seeing the film made me think about my most spine chilling moment in cinema - what is yours?

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Too Many Tattoos?

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Mark Kermode | 10:04 AM, Friday, 3 February 2012

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has been made twice - once in Swedish and once in the English language.

The Hollywood remake has had a favourable reception but what does the box office tell us about the two films?

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Is Viggo De Niro?

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Mark Kermode | 15:32 PM, Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Viggo Mortensen is coming on the Kermode and Mayo's Films Review show this week to talk about his new film A Dangerous Method.

A while back I said that he was the natural successor to Robert De Niro - do you agree with me?

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