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A raw when not tender character driven, magically crafted collage that is by turns playfully impulsive and moody, The Dish & The Spoon is also a road movie lacking any fully satisfying outcome.

And with those 2012 end of the world prophesies additionally at hand, these films are already slipping into theaters at the start of this year, in a moodier trend that may have been unleashed recently by Danish director Lars von Trier.

Lord described The Pirates! Band of Misfits, adapted by Gideon Defoe from his own book, as 'a journey of five years' from page to screen.

After boarding the charter flight for the desolate wilds - a kind of airborne Noah's Ark housing typical extreme ethnic stereotypes from each group - the plane hits bad weather and crashes in deep snow.