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  • Just checking...

    Movie News | Ali | 13th July 2013

    Are we all okay with this? Because I'll be honest, I'm picturing Terrence Howard in a powder wig.

  • Pacific Rim

    Movie Review | Ali | 8th July 2013

    Pacific Rim isn't a monster movie. Don't let the presence of giant man-made robots fighting gigantic hellbeasts fool you. What Guillermo del Toro has done with Pacific Rim is what no other filmmaker has done in the creature feature genre for decades – take a bona fide B-movie concept with a triple-A budget and make it matter. In just a few minutes of pre-credits back-story, del Toro paints a picture of a changed world that hangs in the balance: the arrival of 25,000 tonne monsters from another dimension, the cities that fell, humanity's response, the inevitable false dawn when we started winning. That neat set-up acts as a pre-bout bell ring, but when Jaeger eventually meets Kaiju on the Pacific Rim battlefield, it doesn't feel like a mere monster movie – it feels like a goddamn war film.

  • What's Luther been up to?

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 10th June 2013

    Good BBC drama being what it is, they throw you a three-episode bone every once in a while, then you have to wait flipping ages until the next lot. Luther's second season was on our screens about two years ago, and between the first and second he'd gone mental, been on hiatus from the police force and developed a worrying habit of playing Russian roulette every morning. Which leads me to wonder what he's been doing with himself for the last two years.

  • Luther's filing system's gone to shit

    TV News | Ed Williamson | 18th May 2013

    This might be why he's been away for a while. That and the fact that he goes crackers at the end of every series and needs some time to get his head together.

  • I think we all know who the real monster is, Pacific Rim trailer

    Movie Trailer | Luke | 13th December 2012



    First contact with aliens and we build giant robots purely to punch their faces in. Welcome to Earth.

  • BBC Director-General resigns in Luther poster row

    TV News | Ed Williamson | 10th November 2012

    I don't know the full story, but apparently senior officials became alarmed when he started referring all key decisions to the poster of Luther on his office wall.

  • Prometheus

    Movie Review | Ali | 31st May 2012

    For all the talk of Prometheus "sharing the same DNA" as Alien, Ridley Scott's prequel doesn't bear much family resemblance to its granddaddy. The economy of horror that served his 1979 effort so well is replaced by a big-budget, star-gazing sci-fi that wants you to know it has size on its side. Hugely ambitious and staggering in its grand designs, Prometheus is almost hamstrung by the fact it is an Alien movie at all – the mishmash of grotesque body-horror and chin-stroking existentialism does not always make for the most coherent movie, but it is at least an entertaining one and certainly no black mark on the franchise.

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

    Movie Review | Matt | 17th February 2012

    Great news for fans of Nic Cage's inimitable, eccentric acting style: Ghost Rider 2 contains some truly classic batshit Cage moments that seem destined to grace gifs and YouTube clips across the Internet. Bad news for everyone else: otherwise, the film is pretty rubs.

  • The five best Nic Cage quotes from the Ghost Rider 2 press junket

    Movie Feature | Matt | 16th February 2012

    It's a proud moment when gets to share the same breathing space as Sir Nicolas of Cage. The man - nay, the legend - has not only provided us with years of onscreen entertainment, but also a lifetime's worth of curious offscreen antics and reason for much debate and deliberation. Needless to say, if he knew the amount of love we have shown him on the site over the years, I probably would have been asked to leave the room.

  • Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance trailer = CAGE RAGE squared

    Movie Trailer | Ali | 20th August 2011

    You thought Nic Cage reclaiming his castle in the name of love in Trespass yesterday was Cage Rage? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET.