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Movie Review | Ali | 23rd June 2008

If you can think of a new and exciting way to have one man shoot another, you score a point. If you can think of several, you deserve a round of applause. If you can find a way to include them in a movie that doesn't result in embarrassed laughter but rather sustained awe, then congratulations - you've officially made the pages ...

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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd June 2008

Sunday morning, at the Prince Caspian screening in the West End. There's a queue, winding from the cinema lobby, out into Leicester Square and down the road, 350-400 strong at least. At 10 o'clock in the morning. What the hell? I guess it's easy to forget that to some, this is just a sequel - another production line fantasy epic...

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Funny Games U.S.

Movie Review | Ali | 11th April 2008

"Why are you doing this to us?" asks Tim Roth's housebound hostage. "Why not?" says his tormentor. Why not indeed? Michael Haneke certainly needs no further excuse to repackage his 1997 thriller for American audiences - it is, after all, the audience the movie was originally aimed at. Shot in a near identical...

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[REC]

Movie Review | Ali | 6th March 2008

Given the huge success of The Blair Witch Project in 1999, it's strange that's it's taken almost ten years for horror filmmakers to jump on the shaky-cam bandwagon. In January this year we had the awesome Cloverfield, a monster movie documented on camcorder by various Abercrombie & Fitch models, and in March we've got Diary Of T...

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Rambo

Movie Review | Mark | 26th February 2008

Rambo is better than Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. Which is kind of like saying being punched in the face until you black out is better than having your foot sawn off by a hedgetrimmer. Rambo is The Blacksploitation Flick of the Noughties. Twenty years after the monumentally stupid Rambo III (dedicated to the freedo...

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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

Movie Review | Ali | 14th February 2008

The teen slasher market is so damn saturated these days, you'd better have a hook if you want to catch my attention. It's clear from minute one that All The Boys Love Mandy Lane has nothing in its corner apart from an unfeasibly attractive lead in Amber Heard. Apparently the Weinsteins sliced and diced this picture over a year a...

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Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem

Movie Review | Ali | 30th January 2008

Although I'm ashamed to say I was drunk when I saw Aliens Versus Predator at the cinema (well at least I had fun), I've been assured that it isn't much more fun when sober. A clumsy cut-and-shut of two trusty franchises directed by a true cinematic hack, it took a great concept - pit two of the baddest alien motherfuckers in the...

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The Cottage

Movie Review | Ali | 16th January 2008

Paul Andrew Williams is only two films into his career, and already it's impossible to predict what he'll do next. His debut movie, London To Brighton, was by all accounts a harrowing and distressing drama, two hours of relentless misery in the company of pimps, whores and frightened little girls. His second movie, The Cottage, ...

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Planet Terror

Movie Review | Ali | 14th November 2007

Robert Rodriguez's half of the summer's biggest sensation finally hops into UK cinemas, left choking on the exhaust of Death Proof and hoping the dust of the Grindhouse debacle has well and truly settled. Still, if you're willing to overlook the 'two movies for the price of two' screwjob, then you'll have no doubt enjoyed Tarant...

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Top 50 Movie Fight Scenes

Movie Feature | Ali | 7th November 2007

"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" The wise words of one Tyler Durden, and a maxim we live by here at TheShiznit. The fifty scenes celebrated in this article represent the finest fights in cinema history, the almighty showdowns that shook the Earth to its very core. Featuring men, women, dino...

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