Zooey Deschanel

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  • Films on TV round-up: some notes on film titling conventions

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 4th March 2012

    Films have titles, you might have noticed, when turning your head on one side slightly upon being presented with a row of DVDs on a shelf. They have words in them to distinguish them from other films. Here we will examine this concept further. Not much further, admittedly.

  • New show: New Girl

    TV Feature | Kirsty Harrison | 6th January 2012

    New Girl starts tonight on Channel 4 and it's really quite funny. When I was at university I shared a house with three guys. It was not funny. It smelled bad and no one sang any theme songs. At all.

  • Trailer dump: new US shows coming to Channel 4

    TV Video | Matt Looker | 18th July 2011

    Channel 4 has acquired the rights to air some brand new US comedies, but making a separate post for each trailer seems far too much like hard work, so here's all of them at once. : being efficient so you don't have to. Be. Efficient, that is.

  • (500) Days Of Summer

    Movie Review | Ali | 30th August 2009

    Ever been in love? Ever had your heart broken? Ever spent over 48 hours in nothing but your dressing gown, surrounded by empty bowls of cereal and tissues and bottles of whisky? Then you'll relate to (500) Days Of Summer.

  • Yes Man

    Movie Review | Rob | 4th January 2009

    No. It's a wonderful word isn't it? Without it we'd all be doing things we don't really want to do, all of the time, and we'd be knackered 24/7 - life would be like a permanent Glastonbury. However, some people enjoy the word more than others, and get carried away with it to the extent where they sit alone in their apartment wat...

  • The Happening

    Movie Review | Ali | 14th June 2008

    Plot a graph of M Night Shyamalan's career and you could pick up quite a speed sledding to the bottom. He started on a high with The Sixth Sense and the underrated Unbreakable, but somewhere around the 80 minute mark in Signs, Night started his inexorable decline. The Village? Lady In The Water? Twaddle of the highest order. And...

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

    Movie Review | Ali | 16th May 2005

    University has taught me well. One educational pearl that has been bestowed upon me by my journalism course thus far is this: before you start anything, plan what you're going to do first by writing down a few key words and phrases. Thank you very much higher education, I'd never have figured that out myself. Nonetheless, it's...