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  • Elysium

    Movie Review | Neil | 9th August 2013

    There is a point in Elysium when Matt Damon's character Max DeCosta suffers a massive dose of radiation in an accident in his workplace. At that moment the film looks like it could go one of two ways: either it's a lengthy commercial for a "no win, no fee" claims handler (don't do it Max, go to Citizens Advice), or it's a superhero origin story, and Damon is about to slip into some lycra and kill people with his granite-hard man boobs. You'll be unsurprised to read that Elysium is in fact neither, which is great for those of us who hate those ads, but less good for anyone who was hoping for MaxMan: Tits Of Thunder.

  • The Rite

    Movie Review | Matt | 23rd February 2011

    You have to wonder why, after the release of The Exorcist, anyone has ever bothered to make another exorcism movie. It's like somebody now making a film about a theme park filled with dinosaurs - it's been done to its fullest extent already. And yet exorcism films continue to be churned out on an annual basis. Can The Rite add anything new to the ‘demonic possession' oeuvre? Erm… well, there's Anthony Hopkins…

  • Predators

    Movie Review | Ali | 7th July 2010

    The first thing any writer must do when they begin to pen their latest action odyssey is probably sigh, and resign themselves to the fact that, whatever film they end up writing, it won't be half as good as Predator. What Robert Rodriguez has done, by adapting his original 1994 script (written before both AvP debacles), is turn that theory on its head intentionally: with Predators, it almost seems like he's tried to make a movie exactly half as good as Predator. And that's fine by me.

  • I Am Legend

    Movie Review | Andy | 31st December 2007

    There are two Will Smiths in this world. One is an actor of surprising depth and ability; he makes films like Six Degrees Of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness. The other is The Fresh Prince of Bel Air; he makes films like Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black and any other number of wise-cracking action hero eyewip...