Jonathan Liebesman

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 12th October 2014

So I finally got old. Morning: doctor's appointment for dry skin. Afternoon: phone calls with estate agents and surveyors and mortgage advisors. Evening: still-aching limbs from a football match played 48 hours previously. I startle awake to find myself sat in a Paramount screening room ready to watch the latest iteration of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a phenomenon I was probably too old to enjoy guilt-free the first time round a quarter of a century ago. "Let's see those hands in the air!" says a company spokesperson, urging attendees to don the giant green foam hands provided for a photo opportunity. I am secretly glad I didn't pick any up on the way in. Because I am old as fuck.

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Wrath Of The Titans

Movie Review | Matt | 30th March 2012

When you consider the critical shitpanning that was given to Clash Of The Titans upon release, it's hard to understand how a sequel was ever greenlit. Absurd plot points, stilted dialogue and 3D so eye-bleedingly bad it nearly undid all of Avatar's goodwill singlehandedly...and yet here we are again. With the promise of bigger and better monsters - and a new, less anachronistic haircut for Sam Worthington - is this film a vast improvement? Nuh-uh.

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7 things I forgot to write about Battle Los Angeles last week

Movie Review | Ali | 17th March 2011

So I saw Battle Los Angeles (now correctly de-colonised, for all you punctuation pedants) last week but the ringing in my ears only just stopped. Guess I'd better do a blog post on it then.

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ID4 x D9 + Batteries Not Included = World Invasion: Battle LA

Movie Trailer | Luke | 14th November 2010

Ropey-looking alien invasion Sci-Fi thriller 'Skyline' came out this week, and almost immediately wished it hadn't. Beaming down in March 2011 is World Invasion: Battle LA - a ropey-looking alien invasion Sci-Fi thriller.

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Daily shrug: some guy directing Clash Of The Titans 2

Movie News | Ali | 31st August 2010

In other news, the world continued to spin on its axis and Justin Bieber went another day without a haircut.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Movie Review | Ali | 19th October 2006

A while ago I was asked to review a book that deconstructed the Western genre, pulling apart classics like the Leone films to see what made them tick. One such chapter attempted to de-mystify Clint's 'Man With No Name' from the Dollars trilogy, giving him a political agenda and transposing all of these social values and ideolog...

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