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Big Hero 6

Movie Review | TheShiznit.co.uk | 25th January 2015

If you want an example of how our relationship with technology has accelerated at a terrifying rate, show a young millennial the first Toy Story movie, which turns 20 years old this year. Made in 1995, the first fully CG-animated movie was a cinematic landmark yet it was still, tellingly, a tale of simple toys and derring do. That millennial you roped in (I won't asked questions how) will now look at Toy Story and turn their nose up at the relatively rudimentary visuals; they're much more likely to get their kicks from a movie like Big Hero 6, a breathlessly exciting, migraine-inducingly busy animation that must have surely pushed the Disney render farms to meltdown. Purely from a technological standpoint, it makes Toy Story look like a Punch & Judy show.

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Top 20 scenes of 2014: 10-1

Movie Feature | TheShiznit.co.uk | 30th December 2014

Here it is, the culmination of an entire year of sitting in front of a screen to watch movies and then sitting in front of a smaller screen to then write about those movies. These 10 scenes are the best that 2014 had to offer, although obviously that's just my opinion, but even more obviously it's my blog, so if you don't like it you can go and read WhatCulture or something you philistine.

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Top 20 scenes of 2014: 20-11

Movie Feature | TheShiznit.co.uk | 29th December 2014

Hello loyal readers and congratulations for making it to the final stages of 2014: all that remains is to square off with the grimly inevitable end-of-year boss.

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Rollover for a more accurate version of Jason Statham's Wild Card poster

Movie News | TheShiznit.co.uk | 16th December 2014

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He just doesn't give a fork. (Pic from IMPawards.com).

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This poster for Unfinished Business is just the WOOO-OOORST

Movie Feature | TheShiznit.co.uk | 8th December 2014

I'm not even sure what they're getting at. Are they calling Vince Vaughn a dickhead? Let's go with that.

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Cool Stan Winston Easter Egg in the Jurassic World trailer, bro

Movie Trailer | TheShiznit.co.uk | 26th November 2014

I'd like to think dearly departed special effects whiz Stan Winston is up there now, eating steak at his own personal afterlife steakhouse. (Full Jurassic World trailer here you idiot, HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN IT YET?)

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