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New Release Review - All is Lost

An elderly man is lost at sea when his boat is struck by a shipping container.

One of TMW's films of the year, 'Upstream Color', hits UK DVD on December 30th and, thanks to the good folks over at Metrodome, we've got three copies to give away to UK readers.

Recently passed at the age of 81, Wojciech Kilar had been composing in his native Poland for a quarter of a century before Francis Ford Coppola brought him to mainstream attention by hiring Kilar to score his 1992 'Dracula'.

2013 wasn't just a great year for movies, we also got some great movie posters. The "floating heads" style posters that have dogged cinema since the the mid-nineties finally seems to be dying out, replaced by more old-school designs.

Who doesn't love end of year movie lists? We've gathered together all the essential ones here.

There are few things more thrilling in cinema than seeing and hearing a great piece of music matched with great visuals. We've already highlighted the best scores of 2013, now here's the year's best use of pre-recorded (ie existing music not written for the screen) music.

Here at Waffler Towers we're often baffled by the praise heaped on movies we feel are undeserving. Other times we champion a movie only to see it trashed in the mainstream. Using Rotten Tomatoes as a reference point, here are 10 examples from 2013 where our evaluations differed wildly from the general consensus. Were we completely wrong or just not drinking the right Kool-Aid?