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It’s round six of our all-new feature CB Recommends. That means we’ve lasted twice as long as Hagler and Hearns, but we’re barely a fourth of the way to equaling the James Bond canon. There’s still plenty of prosthelytizing to be done, but one weekend at a time

I think I started watching The IT Crowd about a month ago. Three weeks ago, my anticipation for Series 5 of the British sitcom began and now, do I not only have to wait until, well who knows (2012?), but it seems like that will also be the last of it... and right after we found out that Osama Bin Laden liked the show

Ever since it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, the Welsh film Submarine has been compared repeatedly to the work of Wes Anderson. Direct Richard Ayoade, who you might know from his work in the UK with The IT Crowd or The Mighty Boosh

The trailer is a little more cutesy and quirky than the rest of the film, but it also gives you a good sense of the movie's sense of humor but also faith in its characters

They're both comedies about teenagers who don't quite fit into their schools, though Terri adopts a very low-budget naturalistic

Using the bleak imagery of coastal Wales to great effect, Ayoade adapts Joe Dunthorne's novel with endless original touches, from Oliver's wry and funny voiceover to masterful shifts in tone

With great performances from the kids in the lead roles and a nice supporting turn from Sally Hawkins as a mom, it's the kind of thing that critics could definitely embrace and send along to a large indie-friendly