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Review: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile is none of those things

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 7th May 2019

About ten years ago, when I was making my first cautious foray into screenwriting, I came up with a concept for a slasher movie with a difference. The main protagonist, you see, would be the killer, but the audience don't see him as a deranged serial murderer, they see him as a mentally disturbed person being harangued by groups of sexy young teens who keep humping each other all over his abandoned summer camp or something. It was going to be very edgy with a shocking twist with a capital 'T'. Then one day I sat down and tried to write it and realised not only was it impossible to fully conceptualise, but the concept was also, in fact, terrible. Not to worry though: looks like someone eventually made a film out of my shit idea.

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Review: Velvet Buzzsaw paints a dark canvas but is worse than the sum of its p-arts

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 8th February 2019

A few years ago I had a bit of an epiphany regarding my personal relationship with art (such as it is that the purpose and understanding of art as a human endeavour is the result of a complex mish-mash of evolutionary need and life experience resulting in a unique perspective held only to oneself imho). It was around the time of political unrest in a country - not going to say which one but it was one of those problematic countries you see on the news often, don't like the gays much - where a group of artists had collaborated to send a satirical message to their government which was more than likely going to see them turn up in a ditch. It was an act that made me question my complete self: would I, a comically stereotypical white man, ever do anything so profoundly brave with my creative output? I mean besides calling Nigel Farage a cock on Twitter? Probably not. I'll probably just carry on ascending to middle class via osmosis, stopping to tut whenever Netflix raise their prices by 20p so they can continue making mediocre originals.

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The Transformers/Coen Bros Venn diagram

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 4th July 2014

It's one of the weirdest phenomenons in modern movie history: how is it that so many Coen regulars wind up in Transformers movies? See the culprits as we attempt to figure out what possible motives the guilty parties could have.

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Rejected logos for Red 2

Movie Feature | Matt | 30th April 2013

These ex-agents may be suffering from old age, but their shrewd marketing department clearly has its finger on the pulse of today's youth. #ROFL #YOLO #TheseAreAllThingsThatYoungPeopleSay

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Con Air = CONtinually AIRmazing

Movie Feature | Ali | 3rd July 2011

Earlier today I went to a 'breakfast' screening (1pm is still breakfast, right?) of Con Air at the Prince Charles Cinema in London's Leicester Square. It's still awesome, but in ways I never even knew before.

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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Movie Review | Ali | 28th June 2011

Though I've still not quite recovered from giving Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen four stars upon release – both from the kicking I got in the comments and the subsequent shock when I rewatched it in horror on DVD – I am still very much in the broad demographic targeted by Michael Bay and the Transformers franchise: people who like to see shit getting blown up. We are a proud, simple people.

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Win Jonah Hex on DVD

Movie Competition | Ali | 28th December 2010

What else are you going to do? Watch television? Don't make me laugh. Look at that gorgeous poster. John Malkovich really doesn't want to share that tangerine, does he?

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RED

Movie Review | Rob | 25th October 2010

Think back to The A-Team's tagline: "There is no Plan B". Seeing as RED is the fourth movie this year that features a group of highly-skilled heroes who enjoy banter between gunfights, after The A-Team The Losers, and The Expendables, it would seem that not only is there is a Plan B, there's a Plan C and a Plan D as well.

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Jonah Hex trailer: mrph hrmph hrm

Movie Trailer | Ali | 29th April 2010

Er... Pardon?

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Anne Hathaway and John Malkovich are Spider-Man 4's Vulture family

Movie News | Ali | 8th December 2009

The casting rumours surrounding Spider-Man 4 seem to have been settled once and for all. Out is Black Cat, in is The Vulture... and his daughter? Man, there's going to be some pissed off nerds online tonight.

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