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Nothing screams quality like spelling your star's name wrong on the box

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 11th June 2014

I mean, Cam Gigandet is a stupid name, but still.

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Cool Sex Tape poster, but why is Cameron Diaz in her pants again?

Movie News | Ali Gray | 18th March 2014

I like the concept for this poster for Sex Tape - a movie starring Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz about a sex tape starring Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz - but it's one of the more flagrantly sexist posters I've seen recently. So Cameron Diaz has to appear in tiny pants but Jason Segel gets pyjamas? And socks? Don't get me wrong, I've seen enough of Jason Segel's genitals to last me a lifetime, but he could have at least rocked a boxer. TUT TUT.

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Stop stealing my ideas, Hollywood!

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 14th March 2014

I swear I had this idea when I was eight years old.

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Observations on Cormac McCarthy's screenplay for The Counsellor

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 19th November 2013

It has been 10 days since I saw The Counsellor, and despite it being an obviously flawed, frustrating film, there's something about it that clings to your subconscious, like recalling the remnants of a nightmare in the cold light of day. Ridley Scott's editor is clearly a goddamn American hero, because he was tasked with cutting down Cormac McCarthy's insanely verbose script for the screen; now, having read McCarthy's original, complete screenplay, I'm happy to share with you a few things I've noticed when comparing page to film.

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The Counsellor

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 14th November 2013

'Exciting on paper' is a bit of an oxymoron. Nothing's exciting on paper. Books aren't exciting, unless you throw them at passing cars to make them crash. Cormac McCarthy is a man who writes these so-called 'books', and he's said to be very good at it. And so The Counsellor, his first original screenplay, with a first-rate director and cast, is tremendously exciting on paper. Trouble is, paper and film are very different things.

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Aha! 2013's weirdest cameo revealed

Movie News | Ali Gray | 8th November 2013

So there I was watching The Counsellor, balls deep into Cormac McCarthy territory and attempting to decipher the reams of dialogue being exchanged between Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender, when who should appear but Linton Travel Tavern's very own receptionist Susan aka I'm Alan Partridge actress Barbara Durkin. I should also mention the scene took place in a travel tavern, although there weren't any upset zombies around. Odd.

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TheShiznit.co.uk presents... True Lies: the whole covert operation

Movie Feature | Matt | 6th April 2013

Just a few nights ago, we hosted our very own screening of True Lies at London's bestest venue for film events, The Prince Charles Cinema. You may have seen us invite you once or twice. Sorry about all the begging. And the threats. And the crying.

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11 amazing truths about True Lies

Movie Feature | Matt | 1st April 2013

Because we need SOMETHING on which to hang another shameless plug of our screening.

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TheShiznit.co.uk presents: True Lies

Movie Feature | Ali | 25th January 2013

True: TheShiznit.co.uk are hosting a screening of James Cameron's underrated action epic True Lies on Weds 3rd April, 8.30pm, at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square. Lie: it will not be awesome.

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Pitch Perfect

Movie Review | Matt | 18th December 2012

Here we have a film that is simultaneously an antidote to the pop-gurning mime-fest of Glee and an offender of exactly the same kind of squeaky clean routines. One that spends as much time smiling through faux music video stage dancing as it does making fun of acapella groups for being "lame". In short, it is both refreshingly funny and teen-panderingly cheesy. Ladies and gentlemen, to use the appropriate parlance, it seems we have here what all the young kids these days refer to as a 'mash-up'.

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