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Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 11th August 2017

I'd have been cool if I lived in Berlin in the Cold War. You would've been too: we would've smoked constantly and worn elegantly distressed charity-shop peacoats and listened to Bowie in a Lada. Maybe we could've been happy there, you and me.

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Sunday fun: Spot the difference!

Movie Feature | Ali | 16th December 2012

Can you spot the five differences between these two pictures of Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock for TV drama The Girl? Take your time!

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ITV's Titanic to be longer than Titanic, possibly worse

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 27th December 2011

Morning, ITV. What do you reckon to this dead horse I've got here? Hey, stop flogging it! I'll have to take it to the vet's now. Yes, I know it's dead already. I didn't think the whole scenario through, all right? Shut up, ITV.

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Why does The Guardian hate Tintin?

Movie Feature | Ali | 1st November 2011

You may have already seen Steven Spielberg's new movie, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. It's good, huh? Well, The Guardian couldn't disagree more: in fact, they've dedicated ~~FOUR~~ SIX separate op-ed pieces on why they disliked it so much. Protest much?

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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

Movie Review | Ali | 16th October 2011

Despite a directorial career that spans – holy shit, 40 years? – The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn is Steven Spielberg's first animated film. Techniques have come and gone over the years, barriers have been broken, box-office records and preconceptions shattered alike, but only now has Spielberg decided the medium is ready for him – and he's picked his moment well. For all of the good work done by Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson and James Cameron, it is Spielberg who has justified the existence of motion-capture technology: The Adventures Of Tintin is a relentlessly thrilling, rip-roaring yarn that's as close as anyone has ever come to bringing a comic-book to life.

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