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Exploring the dance dynamics in Napoleon Dynamite, a comedy about being yourself – because who else can you be?

A successful crime writer (Ruth Gordon) has a motive for murder, but her victim isn’t going down without a fight

Identity is unpredictable in 2011 psychological thriller Unknown – and that spells trouble for its protagonists

Scientists find an alien sphere at the bottom of the ocean, but it opens a Pandora’s box of misery

An untrustworthy politician? Whatever next? Columbo finds one willing to stoop to murder in Candidate for Crime

A meaty read explaining the twists in sci-fi gem Moon – and what it says about isolation and us