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  • Angels & Demons

    Movie Review | Ali | 6th May 2009

    Tom Hanks adopts his serious face: "I need to get to a library... fast!" Never has one line damned a film so completely. The book might have sold 83 billion copies, but The Da Vinci Code movie was turgid, self-important and - oddly, for a movie about the lineage of Jesus Christ - terminally dull. I'm happy to report, t...

  • Push

    Movie Review | Rich | 21st February 2009

    Push is a sign of things to come. Licensed comic book movies have made more than a bajillion dollars since Spidey swang back into town, so it's only natural that movie studios will want to continue this trend, without having to send wheelbarrows of money to Marvel or DC. This means they'll have to come up with original IP, whi...

  • Grindhouse

    Movie Review | Ali | 9th March 2008

    If you're looking for proof that America is a nation dangerously low on brain cells, then don't look to their president, their love of NASCAR or the success of Two And A Half Men - look at the cinema-going public and their increasingly erratic choices. In April last year, cinema patrons spectacularly failed to recognise a great ...

  • Planet Terror

    Movie Review | Ali | 14th November 2007

    Robert Rodriguez's half of the summer's biggest sensation finally hops into UK cinemas, left choking on the exhaust of Death Proof and hoping the dust of the Grindhouse debacle has well and truly settled. Still, if you're willing to overlook the 'two movies for the price of two' screwjob, then you'll have no doubt enjoyed Tarant...

  • Death Proof

    Movie Review | Ali | 11th August 2007

    Quentin Tarantino is not the unstoppable force we once thought he was. There was a time when he could do no wrong - his new movies were eagerly anticipated like no others, his name attached to a project was a guaranteed seal of quality and every fevered word that flew out his mouth and past his gigantic chin was like a dagger in...

  • Jackass: Number Two

    Movie Review | Ali | 15th October 2006

    Bam Margera is not happy. He's just been beaten up, mauled, bitten and had several nasty looking skateboarding spills, and to top it all, the rest of his so-called 'friends' just trapped him in a wind tunnel with a King Cobra. "Please God, don't let there be a Jackass 3," he prays, and it's not hard to see why; the only way Ba...

  • Lucky Number Slevin

    Movie Review | Ali | 9th March 2006

    An awful title can do a lot of damage to a film. I don't care how many awards it won, one of the main reasons I declined to see The Constant Gardener was because I didn't fancy seeing a film about a man who couldn't keep his hands off of his hoes. However, despite its criminally bad monicker, Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevi...

  • The Island

    Movie Review | Ali | 13th August 2005

    Choose life. Choose a fucking big television. Choose a flash new car. Choose a yacht. Choose a clone. It looks like Renton's got into a bit more trouble than a skag habit this time, as he joins director Michael Bay for the big no-brain blockbuster of the summer. The Island marks Michael Bay's first attempt to tackle an imp...

  • Madagascar

    Movie Review | Ali | 16th July 2005

    It must suck knowing that you can hire all the celebrity voiceovers in the world and create some of the most wonderful computer animation ever seen, and still have to play second fiddle to another company - compare any DreamWorks movie to any Pixar movie and they come off distinctly second-rate. Why? Pixar simply have a much b...

  • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

    Movie Review | Ali | 20th May 2005

    Of all the emotions us rapidly ageing cinemagoers feel towards George Lucas, pity is not likely to be a popular one. But give the poor guy a break. Reviving the Star Wars series and going back to tell the origins of the characters we grew up with may never even have been a good idea in the first place, but it was one hell of a...