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Terribrill: Demolition Man

Movie Feature | Ali | 5th September 2011

I love Demolition Man dearly, despite it quite probably being Not A Very Good film. It's as lovable as it is laughable, and has the unique characteristic of being dated on two levels – in both its 'present day' scenes in 1996 and its futuristic setting of 2032. In the oeuvre of Sly, however – and yes, I did just use the word 'oeuvre' in relation to Sylvester Stallone – it represents the end of an era; a time before the action movie became completely self-aware. Truly Demolition Man is the last hurrah for the so-called 'high-octane' one man army action movies of the mid-nineties, and it goes out with a bang, not a whimper.

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10 sensible suggestions for the cast of The Expendables 2

Movie Feature | Ali | 9th August 2011

Despite the ageing process, it looks like geriaction movie The Expendables 2 is moving forward slowly, infuriating younger movies by blocking their way like lumbering old men tend to do. Alleged new cast members John Travolta and Chuck Norris don't spread our mustard, so we came up with some better ideas and faxed them to Sylvester Stallone.

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Films on TV round-up: deaf, blind, but not dumb

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 7th August 2011

I'm going to say "paradigm" in this. Had to look it up first, obviously. "A set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme." Come to think of it, I hope I've used it right, now I've drawn attention to it.

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Zookeeper

Movie Review | Rob | 28th July 2011

For a brief time there, Kevin James had potential; when his bumbling fat guy routine was sweet and charming, not depressing and pathetic. But then he fell in with Adam Sandler. Now he's trapped churning out this kind of monkey crap while Sandler sits back and counts his money. Yeah, Kevin James is totes the new Rob Schneider.

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Films on TV round-up: ITV's fiendish masterplan

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 24th July 2011

Someone at ITV's had a Eureka moment. "I've got it! We must start showing great films! But then we must show their increasingly poor sequels throughout the same week so that people's memory of the original is steadily soured! Start with a good idea then pump enough cheap, tacky shit into it that it becomes an artless, unrelenting cash-cow! For is that not the ITV way?"

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First official picture of Karl Urban as Judge John Deed

Movie News | Ali | 20th July 2011

After Martin Shaw's dreadful portrayal of the 2000AD future-cop, we finally get a look at Karl Urban's grittier take on Mega City One's high court judge. Look, it was either this or a helmet joke.

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Stallone wants Willis as the bad guy for The Expendables 2

Movie News | Ali | 30th August 2010

Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables is quite literally blowing up right now around the world, but he's already thinking about a sequel, and who might play the big bad: he's tweeted Bruce Willis as a suggestion.

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The Expendables

Movie Review | Ali | 15th August 2010

The danger of 'event movies' is often that the event becomes more important than the actual movie. In some cases, the finished film can almost become surplus to requirement. Remember Snakes On A Plane? We all chuckled at the title and bought into the cheesiness of it, yet only six people saw it at the cinema, and only three of them actually liked it. And one of them was me.

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Prequel alert! Stallone is pondering Rambo Origins: Vietnaaaaargh

Movie News | Ali | 2nd August 2010

Warning: above headline may be paraphrasing somewhat.

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New Expendables trailer is taking names; kicking of ass to come later

Movie Trailer | Ali | 4th June 2010

The new trailer for The Expendables is basically just a list of the entire cast. But when your cast has this many badasses per square inch, I'd say it's entirely appropriate.

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