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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Movie Review | Ali | 5th August 2013

Steve Coogan has been Being Alan Partridge for over 20 years. Over two decades, Norwich's finest broadcaster has read the sport on Radio 2, manned the sports desk on The Day Today, transferred his skill-set to chat in his very own talk show, traded his fame for a sitcom in a travel tavern and broadcast his unique stylings ("equidistant between chit-chat and analysis" - Ross Kemp) on the world wide web. Now, Alan Partridge is welcomed to big school: his very own feature film. Alpha Papa is clearly not the best fit for a character for whom even the small screen is too big, but it is as funny as the format allows. For a character who has survived 20 years on every broadcasting medium under the sun, it's a remarkable feat that Partridge has never outstayed his welcome.

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Well I for one did not see this Doctor Who announcement coming

Movie News | Ali | 4th August 2013

The signs were there, we just didn't know where to look. (Peter Capaldi announced as new Doctor Who).

Edit: For fuck's sake.

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Poster trend: bigging up the little guy

Movie Feature | Ali | 2nd August 2013

A new poster for Thor: The Dark World has been released, and features every resident of Asgard who has ever lived. It's systematic of a trend: squeeze every single famous person in the film on the poster, even if it makes them so small they're basically just a smush of pixels.

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MotherFUCKER.

Movie News | Ali | 1st August 2013

Can someone lend me Â£30+VAT? I've got a thing in October.

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Today I learned: Ron Swanson ran Parks & Recreation in Sin City

Movie News | Ali | 31st July 2013

I heard Ron eventually moved out of Basin City after he ate all the bacon and eggs they had. (Amazing find from reddit).

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A gif of the least ridiculous therefore best bit of the Insidious 2 trailer

Movie Trailer | Ali | 29th July 2013

A smart scare that uses blocking to hide a horror. All the rest is exactly what you'd expect from a franchise whose first instalment saw Patrick Wilson have a fist-fight with a ghost. (Full trailer here).

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Just a random photo of Bruce Willis, unrelated to anything he did recently

Movie News | Ali | 25th July 2013

Sometimes I like to post film stills of Bruce Willis at random, okay?

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Frances Ha

Movie Review | Ali | 25th July 2013

Could Frances Ha be the Greta-ist, Gerwiggiest film ever made? A black and white light-hearted indie comedy about a blundering yet loveable New York ballet teacher? It sounds like the kind of hardcore mumblecore destined to be of interest to all but the most entrenched Brooklynites, but Frances Ha is an unlikely feelgood crowd-pleaser - it's sweet and funny and darling and almost unbearably lovely. And thankfully, everyone enunciates.

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Not sure Chris Hemsworth is wearing enough make-up in this Rush poster

Movie Feature | Ali | 25th July 2013

Roll your mouse over his gorgeous face to apply even more slap.

Because Formula 1 drivers took this shit seriously in the 70s.

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What's wrong with this Metro ad?

Movie News | Ali | 22nd July 2013

Sounds like a great film! But what's it called? (via @bennhawkes)

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