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Paradise Lost (Turistas)

Movie Review | Ali | 26th June 2007

From the cinematic visionary who brought you Kate Bosworth soaking up the surf in Blue Crush and Jessica Alba getting wet in Into The Blue comes another tale of bikini-wearing teens getting hot and bothered overseas. Released a year ago in the States under the name Turistas, Paradise Lost arrives a little too late to hop on the...

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Zodiac

Movie Review | Chris | 22nd May 2007

This latest effort from director David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club) is an intensely detailed, powerfully thrilling look into the nature of obsession and the power of fear; a throwback of sorts to the type of films made during the very era it depicts. The film is razor sharp and wholly engaging, filled to the brim with fantastic ...

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Hannibal Rising

Movie Review | Mark | 12th February 2007

Turning Anthony Hopkins' most memorable performance into a pretentious Jason Voorhees takes a certain, rather considerable ability. Hannibal Rising is the work of an undoubted artistic vandal: it's not an intriguing character study into the mundanity of evil. It's just an exercise in the inanity of evil. Perhaps what is mor...

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Why I Hate... Modern Horror

Movie Feature | Ali | 20th January 2007

Let's assume, for all intents and purposes, that I scare easily. Let's say, just theoretically, that I lose control of my limbs every time I see a spider, jump several notches up the homo-o-meter when I hear bumps in the night and break into a cold sweat whenever someone tells Noel Edmonds 'no deal'. Theoretically. One would ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Movie Review | Ali | 19th October 2006

A while ago I was asked to review a book that deconstructed the Western genre, pulling apart classics like the Leone films to see what made them tick. One such chapter attempted to de-mystify Clint's 'Man With No Name' from the Dollars trilogy, giving him a political agenda and transposing all of these social values and ideolog...

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Saw 2

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd March 2006

The original Saw was something of a triumph - a tightly-plotted schlock horror that used its budget limitations to its advantage and pinched all the right bits from the genre to forge a grisly identity all of its own. Just a year later, the inevitable sequel rears its ugly, pig head - it wasn't particularly wanted or needed, ye...

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Wolf Creek

Movie Review | Ali | 28th February 2006

Teeth, tits and ass: three things that signify exactly what is wrong with horror movies today. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting kind of tired of seeing fresh-faced young teens get chased by cardboard cut-out lunatics and getting themselves into situations of mild-peril - if ever there was a genre that no one wo...

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