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Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 20th November 2014

Pop star biopics don't really work, do they? They love to take great, heavy-handed pains to hint at the inspiration behind the subject's most famous work, like a whole film comprising Forrest Gump telling John Lennon how in China the people have no possessions, and no religion too. Get On Up, the story of James Brown, isn't quite as guilty of this as most, and boasts a standout lead performance by Chadwick Boseman, but by Christ, its script is funky, and not in a good way.

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DVD weekly: True Blood - season four

TV Feature | Matt Looker | 22nd May 2012

Hey, it's that thing about the girl who's in love with a vampire. No, no - the OTHER thing. Nope - not that one either. The OTH - oh, just read the title.

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True Blood trailer surprisingly light on boning

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 16th May 2012

Then again, it is only the first of probably two or three, so I guess the others will be crammed full of rimjobs, DPs and Voltaire's Angry Glove.

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New series of True Blood will feature witches, of course

TV News | Matt Looker | 27th June 2011

Because, after vampires and werewolves, witches are next on the list of 'supernatural things everyone has heard of'.

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True Blood: get your teeth into season four (sorry)

TV News | Ed Williamson | 17th May 2011

"Hello? ... Oh, hi. A couple of hundred words about the new True Blood season four promo clip? Sure, it's just ... no, but I've never actually seen it before ... What? A YouTube vid and a couple of half-arsed vampire puns will do the trick? Well then, BAT's no problem! ... What? ... No, you're right, sorry. There was no need to start straight away."

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