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Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), Michael Bolton (David Herman) and Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) in Office Space

PostSecret Style Confessions: The Silence Of The Lambs

Punk'd

When pranks go wrong (possible SPOILERS within):
• A humiliating, pig's blood-themed prank played on Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) had deadly consequences for the students at the Bates High School prom in Carrie.
• High school jock Andrew Clark's (Emilio Estevez) prank involving tape and Larry Lester's "buns" not only left his victim with less hair... and skin; it also landed Andrew in Saturday detention in The Breakfast Club.
• A prank-filled weekend at Muffy St. John's (Deborah Foreman) parents' secluded island home turned deadly for a group of college friends in April Fool's Day... or did it?
• A group of friends found themselves facing an unexpected moral dilemma when a practical joke intended to humiliate bully George Tooney (Josh Peck) went horribly wrong in Mean Creek.

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Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) in True Blood

Five Word Film Review: Brüno

Potentially offensive... but very funny.

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Three films about troubled teenagers:

Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange tells the story of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a bowler-hatted, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent whose penchant for "a bit of the old ultra-violence" lands him in jail, where he volunteers for the Ludovico Technique, an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government to supposedly "cure" criminals.

Described as "Beverly Hills, 90210 on acid", Nowhere is the final instalment in writer-director Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, following Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation. It chronicles a bizarre, drug fuelled day and night in the lives of a group of (strangely named) angst-ridden teenagers living in Los Angeles in the 90s and focuses in particular on Dark Smith (James Duval), a film student prone to witnessing alien abductions.

Based on the real-life experiences of Nikki Reed (who co-wrote the screenplay with writer-director Catherine Hardwicke), Thirteen follows Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood), a 13-year-old straight-A student whose life spirals out of control when she befriends Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed), a popular girl from school who introduces Tracy to a world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll petty crime.

Dude Looks Like A Lady... Again

Following Dude Looks Like A Lady, here are four other characters from film and TV who've dressed in drag:

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a sweet transvestite from the planet of Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania made a man (with blond hair and a tan) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) wore women's clothes, a long blonde wig and make-up to go trick-or-treating as Jaime Sommers from The Bionic Woman in Freaks and Geeks.

Hank Rossi (Clark Gregg) wore women’s clothes and became known as Henrietta when he decided to become a woman in The Adventures of Sebastian Cole.

Jerry Espenson (Christian Clemenson) donned a Little Bo Peep costume when he incorrectly thought it was Halloween already in Boston Legal, while his colleague Carl Sack (John Larroquette) dressed as a French maid in an effort to prove he could still behave like a kid sometimes.

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Iris Chapman (Toni Collette) in Clockwatchers

Five Ways To Make A Memorable, TV-Style Entrance

1. Fall down the stairs like Whitney Port did in The Hills when she tripped while modelling an Oscar gown on live TV.
2. Show up in drag like DEA agent Denise Bryson (David Duchovny) did in Twin Peaks when he she helped Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), a former colleague who previously knew Denise as Dennis.
3. Arrive in fancy dress as Jerry Espenson (Christian Clemenson) did in Boston Legal when he wore a Little Bo Peep costume to work, mistakenly believing it was Halloween already.
4. Dress to impress excess as Sam Weir (John Francis Daley) did when he wore a ridiculous Parisian night suit to school in an attempt to impress Cindy Sanders (Natasha Melnick) in Freaks and Geeks.
5. Gatecrash a party like Dawn Denbo (Elizabeth Keener) did in The L Word when she found out Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig) slept with her lover Cindi (Alicia Leigh Willis) behind her back.

I See Dead People

Characters who have appeared prominently in TV shows, despite the fact that they're deceased (possible SPOILERS within):

Despite being found dead (wrapped in plastic) in the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) appeared several times throughout the series, mainly during flashbacks as Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) tried to discover who killed her. Sheryl Lee also had a recurring role as Laura's dark haired, spectacle wearing (and ill-fated) cousin Madeleine "Maddy" Ferguson.

Although Desperate Housewives began with her suicide, Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) has featured continuously throughout the series, providing narration from beyond the grave for almost every episode, while also occasionally appearing in person during flashbacks and dream sequences.

Even though Dexter Morgan's (Michael C. Hall) adoptive father Harry Morgan (James Remar) died several years before the start of the first series, he has appeared in almost every episode of Dexter so far, first during flashbacks and later in Dexter's imagination offering him advice... which Dexter mostly ignored.

Sun, Sea And Celluloid

Three beach-set films:

Set in England after the Second World War and inspired by the early life of British madam Cynthia Payne, Wish You Were Here follows Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd), a free-spirited, profanity-spouting and sexually frank teenager who lives in a quiet seaside town with her widowed father and her younger sister.

Based on the off-Broadway play by Charles Busch, Psycho Beach Party revolves around Florence "Chicklet" Forrest (Lauren Ambrose), a Gidget-like "surfer chick with a split personality" who is one of a handful of suspects thought to be responsible for a series of gruesome (but humorous) deaths in 1962 Malibu Beach.

Set during the summer of 1963, Shag follows Carson McBride (Phoebe Cates), Melaina Buller (Bridget Fonda), Caroline "Pudge" Carmichael (Annabeth Gish) and Luanne Clatterback (Page Hannah), four friends who sneak off to Myrtle Beach for a weekend away together before Carson gets married.

Five Word Film Review: Spring Breakdown

Great cast, but otherwise mediocre.

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Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) in Office Space

Costume Drama

TV characters who like to play dress up:

Sam Weir (John Francis Daley) and his friends Neal Schweiber (Samm Levine), Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) and Harris Trinsky (Stephen Lea Sheppard) dressed up to go trick-or-treating in Freaks and Geeks.

Alan Shore (James Spader) and Denny Crane (William Shatner) dressed as flamingos for their office Halloween party in Boston Legal and referenced 80s teen film Pretty in Pink (which James Spader appeared in) when Alan said "Denny, you look pretty in pink".

Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) went undercover as a Russian knife-throwing act named Buck and Wanda Moosejaw in order to investigate the murder of conjoined circus twins in Bones.

CIA double agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) kicked ass and looked good doing it as she donned various disguises while attempting to bring down SD-6, and other organisations that threatened the security of the free world in Alias.

Five Word Film Review: Wilderness Survival For Girls

Suspenseful coming-of-age thriller.

Vacation, Had To Get Away

Three not-so-great getaways:

Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) found the shower at the Bates Motel had water pressure to die for in Psycho.

The great white shark terrorising Amity Island gave new meaning to the term all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Jaws.

Counsellors and campers at Camp Crystal Lake discovered there was more to be afraid of than campfire stories in Friday the 13th and its many sequels.