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Battle your own monsters with our Pacific Rim poster playset

Movie Feature | Luke | 12th July 2013

Pacific Rim is out in cinemas today (Ali's glowing review here), and sure watching giant monsters mangle giant robots is all well and good, but what if you could control the action yourself? Well now you can: behold, our interactive Pacific Rim poster playset!

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Shocked to discover this sort of language in a Disney film

Movie Feature | Luke | 7th July 2013

Although it does explain why those kids keep calling me it at the park.

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5 things you may have missed on the shiny new Riddick poster

Movie Feature | Luke | 6th July 2013

Yes! It's the return of our '5 things on a poster' feature! No, it's not a slow day and we needed an easy post, how very dare you! Maybe some people haven't heard about the new Riddick film and need to be brought up to speed in a list fashion.

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Insane Japanese movie in insane Japanese trailer shocker

Movie Trailer | Luke | 21st June 2013

At 1:03 into this trailer for Gatchaman (known as Battle of the Planets in the West) the words "BUMP OF CHICKEN" appear on screen, and it's the only thing that comes close to making any sort of sense.

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Before Robocop there was... FUTURE COP!

Movie Feature | Luke | 8th June 2013

I stumbled upon this amazingly awkward intro for 1970s sci-fi show Future Cop, after discovering the main guy - an actor named Michael Shannon - had played 'President's Aide' in Superman II and was trying to turn that into a feature. But this is much better. By which I mean much worse.

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Adding motion to movie posters

Movie Feature | Luke | 5th June 2013

You've all seen a motion poster before, right? Newfangled marketing thing that isn't quite a poster, isn't quite a trailer, yet shimmies and you look at it for a bit? I know, they perplex me too. Nethertheless it got me thinking: what if older movies were given the motion poster treatment? So many questions - well, one question really - and here's the answer: our exclusive gallery of motion posters for films that don't already have them.

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9 grumpy people who could be in the Grumpy Cat movie

Movie Feature | Luke | 30th May 2013

Hooray! Have you heard? There's going to be a movie made of smash-hit internet meme sensation Grumpy Cat! To celebrate, we've assembled a gallery of some of the most grumpy people and actors and things who could possibly appear in the film maybe for some reason.

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Weekly weekend international box office analysis #1

Movie Feature | Luke | 27th May 2013

A new feature where we dissect the highs and lows of the global box office, in a week where Iron Man 3 overtook Transformers: Dark Of The Moon as the fifth highest-grossing movie worldwide of all time.

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The 5 (million) dumbest things about Star Trek Into Darkness

Movie Feature | Luke | 24th May 2013

When Matt reviewed Star Trek Into Darkness he echoed what many others have said: lots of fun but bobbins plot and too much reliance on nostalgia. So with my expectations suitably lowered I embarked upon a little trek of my own to the cinema, and - unfortunately - it turned out to be much more of a Slow Slog Into Dumbness than I had feared. Here's my best attempt at explaining why. (Mahoosive spoilers and frothy entitlism ahead - you have been warned!)

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Trailer breakdown: you mess with Riddick, you lose

Movie Trailer | Luke | 16th May 2013

Geddit? 'Riddick you lose', ridicul- ah what's the point. Here are a dozen and a bit sarcastic comments below some stills from the first trailer for the new Riddick film, Riddick, which stars Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick. I literally just found out that's his full name.

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