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Review: Rebecca is an uninspired case of diminishing returns

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 26th October 2020

Here are a couple of film facts you can use to impress your TikTok audience: Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and John Carpenter's The Thing is a remake. Wait, one of the most awesome movies ever is a copy of another film? Well no, not exactly: Carpenter took an old story and improved it, adding his own ideas and explosions, and generally raising everything up a notch. Okay, so what's your point? That it is possible to create legitimate new art from old art. Oh right, is it worth obsessing over? Not really. Are you going to anyway? Yes, after this dab.

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Skyscraper

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 12th July 2018

Almost all films starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson (or ‘Dwock’, as I will now call him, for ease) play on the fact that he is an impossibly-shaped human with overinflated balloon arms that are at constant risk of bursting and jettisoning his screeching cannonball head around the room. Not to mention that he acts like a small child that has somehow Freaky-Fridayed with his favourite He-Man figure and doesn’t know how long he has left to make the most of it. As such, Dwock always plays larger-than-life characters in larger-than-life films. Skyscraper, however, sees a return to relatively more serious action. It’s still an overblown, ludicrous mess, but it’s genuinely refreshing to see a film like this played with such sincerity. Such ridiculous, idiotic sincerity.

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The Drop

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 13th November 2014

Now look. You might have seen some pictures of Tom Hardy and a puppy. And yes, it's all very cute and everything, but I'd like it if we could just get past that and focus on what is after all a very atmospheric crime thriller that makes good use of AWWWW LOOK AT ITS WIDDLE FACE

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Obvious Child

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 29th August 2014

If you are a hipster, then you are welcome here. This website is a broad church and no one is turned away. But know this: I do not understand you. Be you Williamsburg or Shoreditch, you are an alien to me, as are all your kind. Aren't your trousers uncomfortable? Aren't jam jars massively difficult to drink out of? Do you have to eat loads of jam just to get the jars? And yet you are a significant enough cultural phenomenon that you bear documentation through film and television, which is more than you can say for me.

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Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 18th July 2012

There's only one man brave enough to go up against the Batman on The Dark Knight Rises' release week, and that's Ice-T. You might know him as the author of the touching, heartfelt ballads 'KKK Bitch' and 'Ice Muthafucking T', but now he's made a documentary all about rap, and it's not half bad. Finally, a review in which we have a legitimate reason to use the expression 'the shiznit'.

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16 things we noticed in the Paramount 100th anniversary photo

Movie Feature | Ali | 12th June 2012

Hollywood's great and good (and just okay) gathered together in California to shoot a photograph celebrating 100 years of Paramount Pictures. Here's what I spotted in the crowd (sadly, George Clooney didn't have his little finger sticking out of his fly this time).

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Prometheus

Movie Review | Ali | 31st May 2012

For all the talk of Prometheus "sharing the same DNA" as Alien, Ridley Scott's prequel doesn't bear much family resemblance to its granddaddy. The economy of horror that served his 1979 effort so well is replaced by a big-budget, star-gazing sci-fi that wants you to know it has size on its side. Hugely ambitious and staggering in its grand designs, Prometheus is almost hamstrung by the fact it is an Alien movie at all – the mishmash of grotesque body-horror and chin-stroking existentialism does not always make for the most coherent movie, but it is at least an entertaining one and certainly no black mark on the franchise.

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When movies and pop music collide

Movie News | Ali | 12th May 2012

R.I.P. Lee Latchford-Evans and the fat one. (Goofy Prometheus set picture, courtesy of PrometheusForum.net via Reddit)

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Prometheus virals cross the line into 'actually genuinely disturbing'

Movie News | Ali | 3rd May 2012

Warning: fucking horrifying audio death scene revealed by Prometheus viral. Could be considered a spoiler if you're blind. (via Bleeding Cool)

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Prometheus viral: Fassbot will see to your every need (*winks*)

Movie News | Ali | 17th April 2012

Another Prometheus viral. Happy birthday, David!

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