Dennis Doyle (Pegg) is a security guard in a woman’s clothes shop and it’s been five years since he left his pregnant bride Libby (Newton) at the alter. Don’t judge him too harshly as Dennis isn’t really a bad man, it’s just that he like many modern men has a massive fear of commitment. In Dennis's case, his affliction is so chronic it keeps him from being able to see almost any task through successfully without screwing it up. He pines for his lost love and while he still tries to be a good dad to his son, this same affliction means he occasionally screws that up too.

One day while picking up his son he discovers that Libby has a new man in her life, a seemingly perfect American called Whit (Azaria). Whit is everything Dennis is not. He’s slick, smart and successful. He works out religiously and even runs marathons for charity. Struck down by jealousy Dennis misguidedly agrees to run against Whit in one of his marathons, convinced that by doing so he'll can prove to Libby he can change. One problem though. The run is only a few weeks away and while Whit is fit and prepared, Dennis is a chain-smoking, beer swilling slob.

Simon Pegg was born to play the sympathetic everyman role and he capitalizes on that ability here, perfectly capturing Dennis as an emotionally immature man who finds it easier to find excuses for his own failures rather than face up to them. It’s a character who’s not hard not to identify with because of Pegg’s ability to make him seem a like person, who, despite some failings always has his heart in the right place.

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Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic with PAN’S LABYRINTH, a gothic fairytale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Harnessing the formal characteristics of classic folklore to a 20th Century landscape, del Toro delivers a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and loss.

In Theatres: December 29th, 2006
Guillermo del Toro (dir.)
Mirabel Verdu
Sergi Lopez
Ivana Baquero
Doug Jones

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Release Date: December 29th, 2006

During the fascist regime in Spain in 1944, Ofelia, a lonely kid living with her mom and adoptive father, creates a dreamworld filled with fantastic creatures to escape from post-war repression. PAN'S LABYRINTH is a fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. The film centers on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with her mother and adoptive father; a military officer tasked with ridding the area of rebels. In her loneliness, Ofelia creates a world filled with fantastical creatures and secret destinies. With post-war repression at its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of her own creation.

Starring: Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez (II), Ariadna Gil, Alex Angulo
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Produced by: Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, Bertha Navarro (II)

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Release Date: November 10th, 2006

Set in New York in the late 1950s, this biopic, of sorts, explores an unlikely romance that leads Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) into a strange new world, sparking her career as a provocative and visionary photographer. A biopic about the life of photographer Diane Arbus, considered one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly bold artists of the 20th century. Most known for her obsession with 'freak' subject-matter, her haunting work emerged from a deeply private place. Arbus' death was as mysteriously tragic as was the aura surrounding some of her most piercing portraits.

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