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  • Review: Color Out of Space is high on promise but lands with a bump

    Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 13th March 2020

    Richard Stanley is a tantalisingly distant figure in filmmaking. His filmography reeks of such pure talent you wonder why he's not a bigger name. The answer to that lies in the documentary Island of Lost Souls, which recalls Stanley's involvement in the ill-fated big budget 1990s take on The Island of Dr. Moreau. To say it didn't go well is an understatement, with everything from the elements to his erratic star Marlon Brando working overtime to derail things. Subsequently Stanley left the mainstream under a cloud (literally a cyclone), which is why Color Out of Space is being bandied as 'The Return of Richard Stanley' - given a fresh chance to bring a H. P. Lovecraft short story to life with Nicolas Cage in the lead. With such a dizzying rider it can't possibly live up to the hype, can it?

  • Review: Cam teases a great premise but just can’t deliver the goods

    Movie Review | Matt Looker | 19th October 2018

    The internet is wonderful. Just the other day I traced my family history, recovered a lost set of IKEA assembly instructions and watched a monkey fuck a frog in the mouth. But there’s a dark side. There are areas of the internet that encourage horrible behaviour, such as giving racists a platform for their hate speech, or letting nerds have a place to argue about Transformers or whatever. And then there’s the murky morals of online sex stuff, which this film sheds a light on. It’s a thriller set in the world of ‘cam girls’, who are participants in ‘pornographic’ materials. These are images and videos of ‘nudity’ and ‘sexual acts’, none of which I knew existed online before, and I have several blank Incognito windows open on my computer to prove it.

  • American Made

    Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 30th August 2017

    I'm sorry, the old Tom Cruise can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, because he's DEAD.

  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 7th August 2015

    Bel Powley is a very arresting and idiosyncratic actor, so expect to see her playing a superhero's girlfriend pretty soon. For now though, here she is in a fairly straightforward yarn about a teenage girl who has a bunch of sex. It has some good visual ideas and does a nice line in chiding you for forgetting the seediness of its main relationship, but none of this quite elevates it above a decent watch.

  • Billy Brown should probably just give up law enforcement

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 7th February 2013



    He has rubbish luck with it. Can't seem to stay alive five minutes.

  • Snooker tips with Arnold Rothstein

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 27th November 2012



    Arnold Rothstein, racketeer and crime kingpin, gives the first in an almost-certainly-not-regular series of tips on snooker. Jointly sponsored by Highland Spring mineral water and the Jewish Mob.

  • Andrew Lincoln gets a phone call

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 19th November 2012

    Always the way. You get in after a hard day at the office/factory/zombie killing fields, all you want to do is enjoy a nice sit-down, and the bloody phone rings. But who's calling? The Governor? Merle? The ghost of T-Dog?

  • Mad Men blooper: that's the wrong song, Don

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 9th May 2012

    Don Draper, you goof. Your wife hands you a new copy of one of the greatest albums ever made, and the only thing you had to do was put the needle in the right place.

  • Danny Dyer on Casualty: EXCLUSIVE first-look clip

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 16th February 2012

    Ahead of Danny Dyer's guest spot on Casualty on Saturday, we've got hold of a WORLD EXCLUSIVE clip of his scenes. More accurately, we made one ourselves.

  • Downton Abbey Christmas special shown early in North Korea

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 20th December 2011

    With morale low in North Korea, the UN has sent an advance copy of the Downton Abbey Christmas special to Pyongyang.