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POET and journalist Mark O'Brien is paralysed from the neck down and requires an iron lung to breathe.

But thanks to some sensitive direction and some tremendous performances it emerges as an empowering piece of cinema that amuses and inspires even if it does still leave you sitting awkwardly at times.

Home theaters provide the ultimate movie-watching experience -- pure comfort and entertainment on your own property.

Perhaps that explains why Elle Fanning and Peter Dinklage were spotted filming scenes for their new project, Low Down, on a fire escape in Los Angeles on Thursday.

I've been thinking about cult film this week. Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco has said of them, "The work must be loved, obviously, but this is not enough.