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Frost/Nixon

Movie Review | Rob | 26th January 2009

David Frost. Many of us probably know him as that bloke who used to poke his nose through keyholes, but back in the '70s, Frost was kind of a big deal - a media playboy who was making a name for himself on the box both in London and Australia. However, after his New York chat show was cancelled, Frost was desperate to save ...

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Valkyrie

Movie Review | Ali | 24th January 2009

As weird as it may sound, the Nazis have become pantomime villains in recent years. This is not down to a lack of respect - after all, the way to rob an organisation of its power is to remove its credibility and Lord knows there's enough holocaust films to remind us of the Horrors Of What Really Happened. But all those B-movies ...

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My Bloody Valentine 3D

Movie Review | Ali | 17th January 2009

A few months back, I reviewed a film called Scar 3D. It sucked, not only because it was a terrible movie, but because it was a terrible waste of genuinely exciting technology - 3D specs have been around for yonks, but it's only now that films are being /shot/ in three dimensions. Aside from a cool scene with 3D tits, I argued th...

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Defiance

Movie Review | Kirsty | 12th January 2009

The story of the Bielski brothers and their resistance movement is not a famous one and isn't taught in GCSE history like Oskar Schindler's, despite the fact that they were responsible for the survival and protection of a similar number of Jews during WWII. Defiance, co-written and directed by Oscar-winner Edward Zwick, is the f...

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The Spirit

Movie Review | Ali | 3rd January 2009

There's no question Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City - and the subsequent Robert Rodriguez movie adaptation - glorified violence. In Miller's own adaptation of Will Eisner's '40s superhero serial The Spirit, he's guilty of glorifying something else: tits. Rather than swing with Sam Raimi's light and frothy Spider-Man movies...

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Righteous Kill

Movie Review | Ali | 5th October 2008

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver, 1976. Thirty odd years later and Robert De Niro has finally taken those words to heed in Righteous Kill, playing a crooked cop dishing out street justice to evil-doers alongside fellow crusader Al Pacino in a match-up that's had f...

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Bangkok Dangerous

Movie Review | Ali | 7th September 2008

They say don't judge a book by its cover. It stands to reason then, that you shouldn't judge a movie by its poster. In this case, though, it's really, really tempting. I mean... what the hell is that? One arm buried impossibly deep in the other's armpit, one arm clutching a non-existent firearm, while the poster's tagline reads ...

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The Strangers

Movie Review | Ali | 30th August 2008

"Why are you doing this to us?" asks Liv Tyler's tearful victim. "Because you were home," says her tormentor. If that sounds like the beginning of my Funny Games review, that's because The Strangers shares many a sensibility with Michael Haneke's clinical exercise in torture - both films feature a house-bound couple being terror...

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The X Files: I Want To Believe

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd August 2008

Aliens. Victor Tooms. Government cover-ups and black goo. That fish-faced sewer mutant thing. All reasons to tune in to The X Files TV show every week, and all conspicuous by their absence in this disappointing second big-screen X Files outing. For Mulder and Scully's movie reunion, the story is more in line with the singular 'm...

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The Ruins

Movie Review | Ali | 26th June 2008

"This doesn't just happen!" yells one of The Ruins' clueless young protagonists. "Four Americans on vacation don't just disappear!" These guys obviously don't watch many horror films. Firstly, they think it's a great idea to go "off the beaten path" in Mexico. The path's beaten for a reason, a-holes. Secondly, if they'd seen rec...

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