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Before Robocop there was... FUTURE COP!

Posted by Luke at 22:56 on 08 Jun 2013


I stumbled upon this amazingly awkward intro for 1970s sci-fi show Future Cop, after discovering the main guy - an actor named Michael Shannon - had played 'President's Aide' in Superman II and was trying to turn that into a feature. But this is much better. By which I mean much worse.

Adding motion to movie posters

Posted by Luke at 07:30 on 05 Jun 2013
Adding motion to movie posters
You've all seen a motion poster before, right? Newfangled marketing thing that isn't quite a poster, isn't quite a trailer, yet shimmies and you look at it for a bit? I know, they perplex me too. Nethertheless it got me thinking: what if older movies were given the motion poster treatment? So many questions - well, one question really - and here's the answer: our exclusive gallery of motion posters for films that don't already have them.

9 grumpy people who could be in the Grumpy Cat movie

Posted by Luke at 21:20 on 30 May 2013
9 grumpy people who could be in the Grumpy Cat movie
Hooray! Have you heard? There's going to be a movie made of smash-hit internet meme sensation Grumpy Cat! To celebrate, we've assembled a gallery of some of the most grumpy people and actors and things who could possibly appear in the film maybe for some reason.

Weekly weekend international box office analysis #1

Posted by Luke at 21:29 on 27 May 2013
Weekly weekend international box office analysis #1
A new feature where we dissect the highs and lows of the global box office, in a week where Iron Man 3 overtook Transformers: Dark Of The Moon as the fifth highest-grossing movie worldwide of all time.

The 5 (million) dumbest things about Star Trek Into Darkness

Posted by Luke at 16:00 on 24 May 2013
The 5 (million) dumbest things about Star Trek Into Darkness
When Matt reviewed Star Trek Into Darkness he echoed what many others have said: lots of fun but bobbins plot and too much reliance on nostalgia. So with my expectations suitably lowered I embarked upon a little trek of my own to the cinema, and - unfortunately - it turned out to be much more of a Slow Slog Into Dumbness than I had feared. Here's my best attempt at explaining why. (Mahoosive spoilers and frothy entitlism ahead - you have been warned!)

Trailer breakdown: you mess with Riddick, you lose

Posted by Luke at 23:45 on 16 May 2013
Trailer breakdown: you mess with Riddick, you lose
Geddit? 'Riddick you lose', ridicul- ah what's the point. Here are a dozen and a bit sarcastic comments below some stills from the first trailer for the new Riddick film, Riddick, which stars Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick. I literally just found out that's his full name.

EXCLUSIVE: second teaser poster for Lars von Trier's Nymphomanic

Posted by Luke at 10:11 on 02 May 2013
Nymphomaniac teaser poster

First teaser poster now up on the film's official website.

Bobcat Goldthwait? More like BIGFOOT SKULLFACE!

Posted by Luke at 22:11 on 16 Apr 2013
Bobcat Goldthwait? More like BIGFOOT SKULLFACE!
Awesome poster for found footage Bigfoot movie, Willow Creek - presumably a dark comedy given Bobcat Goldthwait's previous films. I need this in my life and on my walls. (via Badass Digest)

Fixing Paramount's Star Trek Into Darkness 'cinemosaic'

Posted by Luke at 12:40 on 11 Apr 2013
Fixing Paramount's Star Trek Into Darkness 'cinemosaic'
Today Paramount revealed something called a 'cinemosaic' for the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness. To be honest I'd never heard of one of them before, but when I found out it was basically a bunch of animated gifs sitting on the internet and none of them featured cats, well... something had to be done.

Well, the first trailer for Elysium looks POWERFULLY XTREME

Posted by Luke at 09:01 on 10 Apr 2013


Jokes. Seriously though, it looks chuffing great, even if it doesn't feature a dog and an orangutan in space.
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