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  • Natural Born Killers 1994

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    Stylised but not stylish, Natural Born Killers satirised the 90's MTV Generation, E! channel zeitgeist by clumsily mimicking it. Beneath its attention grabbing cinematic approach, its observations are mostly trite. You get better media parody in an average episode of The Simpsons. Despite the over-the-top styling & violence, it’s vanilla satire.

  • Up in the Air 2009

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    George Clooney plays frequent flyer extraordinaire Ryan Bingham, who has the job of crossing flyover country in order to assist people in their transitional phase of life - that is, he tells people they no longer have a job. In the process he finally seems to meet that special someone. Also, his own job (at least as he thinks it should be done) may well be under threat. You could label Up in the Air as a kind of rom–com…