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  • Review: A Simple Favour is a fabulous new look for Paul Feig

    Movie Review | Matt Looker | 22nd September 2018

    Imagine being Paul Feig. You’re a talented director with a charming comedy disposition who consistently dresses like a flamboyant uncle at a wedding. Then you dare to reboot a beloved 80s franchise and cast it with actors who have one more X chromosome than the original actors. Suddenly the Horrible Part Of The Internet hates you. It doesn’t care that you made Bridesmaids, because suddenly it hates that too now, just because. Trolls make your life hell for a couple of years. They no longer find it endearing that you dress like a recently widowed old man celebrating his anniversary one last time before taking his own life to join his beloved. Instead they send you death threats because you reimagined their favourite pretend ghost hunters from 30 years ago as women. What do you do now?

  • Official Sony gif serves up a take so hot it will burn your eyes off

    Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 10th August 2016



    Yes, it's a disgusting boast, but c'mon - it's been ages since someone wanted to slap our name on something. Full review of The Shallows here.

  • The Shallows

    Movie Review | Matt Looker | 19th July 2016

    Like flamethrowers and tax rebates, sharks are undeniably awesome. They are vicious, yet magnificent predators wrapped in a mysteriously dumb, dead-eyed outer-shell. Like Vin Diesel, but with fins. So making movies about sharks is a no-brainer; with Great Whites growing to 20ft long and weighing up to 5000lbs, they can be a formidable foe. And the Great White - or Carcharodon carcharias - of this film is every bit as terrifying as the ones in the many shark documentaries I have watched.

  • Savages

    Movie Review | Matt | 19th September 2012

    Confession: creating the above photo made me laugh far more than it should have.

  • The 10 dumbest things about Green Lantern

    Movie Feature | Ali | 19th June 2011

    If you thought my review was harsh, then a) you're wrong, and b) here's even more reasons why I was right. Now let's take these pants off and make some complaints!

  • Green Lantern

    Movie Review | Ali | 15th June 2011

    Advance word hasn't been good, but tonight I finally saw Green Lantern, one of the most anticipated superhero movies of the summer. A fair and balanced opinion, after the jump. Sort of.

  • The Town

    Movie Review | Matt | 23rd September 2010

    Ben Affleck: talented actor whose career undeservingly suffered after the Bennifer affair, or punchably smug media-rapist? Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the lunk-headed grinner - he was, after all, the bomb in Phantoms, yo - but, either way, few can deny that he has managed to recover a lot of credibility post-Gigli. And while Jenny from the Block now languishes in terrible wrong-coms, Affleck continues to 'win the break-up' (let it go, people, it was six years ago) with this well-crafted crime thriller.