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Review: The Muppets

I'm not quite old enough to have enjoyed The Muppet Show the first time around, so despite being a fan of Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal and all things Henson, I never really had Kermit and co as cultural touchstones growing up. However, even without that built-in base of nostalgia, I can wholeheartedly recommend The Muppets' big-screen comeback to moviegoers young, old and in between – I can't remember the last time I giggled so long and hard at such wanton silliness.

Fight For Your Right Revisited

I was all set to use my unparalleled exclusive access as an iTunes customer to review the new Beastie Boys short film that came with their new album, but then I realised it was on YouTube and you could watch it for free. Durr.

Review: Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels - written by Jonathan Swift in 1726 - is one of the most popular stories of all time; it's never been out of print. We'll forgive a 2010 remake, then, but our memories of the text are a little foggy; we're hard pushed to recall the scene in which Gulliver is given a wedgie by a giant robot. Teacher did always say we should pay closer attention!

Jack Black has a small part for Jason Segel in new Gulliver trailer

Like a dolphin in the Thames, gasps of joy soon turn into muted worried looks, as we watch the latest trailer for Gulliver's Travels.

Gulliver's Travels' trailer is exactly as good as its poster

Get it? It's funny because he's such a man-child! Again!

Gulliver's Travels poster: can you people do NOTHING right?

Not only have Hollywood's elite shown themselves completely incapable of thinking of any new ideas, they can't even make humans look human on their posters any more. I despair, I really do.

Review: Year One

Director Harold Ramis first had the idea for Year One over thirty years ago. In 1975, after watching a documentary on the Stone Age, he wrote an improv with Bill Murray and John Belushi as cavemen; the former as a hip-talking Cro-Magnon Man, the latter as a grunting neanderthal. Sadly, what makes a funny sketch in the seventies ...

Review: Tropic Thunder

It's been seven years since Ben Stiller directed a movie, poking fun at the conceited world of male models in Zoolander. Now he's jabbing at a target closer to home - Hollywood actors and their diva-esque behaviour. There's no danger of Stiller being castigated by his own industry, mind - he's not so much biting the hand that fe...

Review: Kung Fu Panda

Dreamworks have always played second fiddle to the almighty Pixar, churning out mostly second-rate films when compared to the Nemos and Ratatouilles of the world. Kung Fu Panda, though, may just make Andrew Stanton and friends worry that they have some serious competition. It goes without saying that the visuals are astounding -...

Review: Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind is an unsung lament to a sadly dying art. In the same way that Cinema Paradiso harked back to a golden age - the time when the community would gather around a flickering screen and unite by the common spectacle - Michel Gondry's latest effort manages to evoke that dying memory of the time when people would clap at...