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The Show

Dir Mitch Jenkins, UK 2021 Available on digital platforms

Possibly the first film Alan Moore hasn’t demanded to have his name removed from, is a typically phantasmagorical offering from the great man that delights, confounds and annoys in equal measure in the way that Moore himself has done for decades. Building on a series of shorts called it’s set in Northampton (natch) and deals with the idea that there is another world in which dead people live again, but only in people’s dreams. Or something like

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