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  • Keytar solo! Dream casting for the Jem And The Holograms movie

    Movie Feature | Becky Suter | 23rd March 2014

    When I was seven, I attempted to make my own keytar by looping the ends of the belt from my dad's dressing gown around my clunky Casio keyboard. Inevitably, as soon as the dressing gown cord touched my puny shoulders, my awesome keys fell from my grasp, crashed to the ground and splintered into a million tiny plastic shards, shattering my dreams with it. Because I wasn't upset so much about the keyboard being broken – I could only play 'When The Saints Go Marching In' on 'Slow' anyway. No, I was upset because it meant I no longer had the chance of being Stormer, the Misfit with a conscience from '80s cartoon Jem and The Holograms and an awesome blue 'do.

  • G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

    Movie Review | Matt | 26th July 2009

    So here we have the next in line for the Hasbro toy-to-movie treatment, following on from the Transformers films and then probably exhausting all other brands until we get a live-action trilogy of My Little Pony Vs Hungry Hungry Hippos. Like the Transformers movies, G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is pitched as a fun, action-packed,...