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Still excited about seeing the original cast in the new Star Wars film?

Movie Feature | Matt | 26th July 2013

Just to be clear, these are the guys that we want to see in the biggest action blockbuster film of 2015, right? Ok, good. And you're definitely sure about that? Ok fine. No, no reason. (via Reddit)

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I can't watch that 'Electro' teaser without thinking of this

Movie Feature | Matt | 20th July 2013

This might be Spider-Man's least fearsome enemy yet (original Amazing Spider-Man 2 teaser here).

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The Wolverine

Movie Review | Matt | 18th July 2013

Considering that Wolverine is one of the most-loved comic-book characters, his cinematic adventures really have been borne out of a mixed gene pool. The 'edgy loner' was ingeniously made the centre of the X-Men franchise under Bryan Singer's direction, but by the time we got to his origin story, he had mutated into a caricature of superficial rage and testosterone (not to mention someone forgot to tell director Gavin Hood how to make his claws look realistic). It seems, for all the fan support for Wolverine, his stories are only as good as the person telling them. So how does newcomer-to-the-franchise James Mangold fare?

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The World's End

Movie Review | Matt | 9th July 2013

"Want anything from the shop?" For fans of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, there is only one answer to that question, such is the cult cultural impact these films have had on the collective film nerd consciousness. And now, here we are with the conclusion of the so-called Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy in the offing and the pressure is on. This is basically as eagerly awaited as the never-going-to-happen third series of Spaced. So would we like anything from the shop? Yes, we'd like a film that's just as sharp, funny and quotable as the previous two instalments, please. Thankfully, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have returned with just what we asked for.

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Now You See Me

Movie Review | Matt | 3rd July 2013

In The Prestige, Michael Caine's Cutter posits that "every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts". You have the 'Pledge', in which the magician shows you something ordinary, the 'Turn', in which he turns that into something extraordinary and the 'Prestige', in which he makes the original item return. Now You See Me does plenty of Pledging and Turning, but fails to win over with the Prestige part. What we have here, is all the wondrous showmanship of a well-performed illusion, followed by the crushing disappointment of reality as our magician explains that it's all down to specially-built rigs and fake props. Except, here, that doesn't even make all that much sense.

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Attention film scholars: Every instance of Kevin James falling over

Movie Feature | Matt | 30th June 2013

This is oddly mesmerising. It's like watching someone struggling to thread a tiny needle but, in this case, the needle is a film career and the thread is a very fine, practically invisible, slither of dignity (via Reddit).

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10 dumbest things about Man Of Steel

Movie Feature | Matt | 20th June 2013

We've all seen Man Of Steel now, right? So I don't have to worry about spoilers? Good, in that case: IT BE STOOPID.

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Interview: Joss Whedon

Movie Feature | Matt | 16th June 2013

It is with no exaggeration when I say that this interview might be the peak of my professional career as a sometime two-bit blogger. It probably even beats that time I wrote a feature making fun of Mark Wahlberg's face.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Movie Review | Matt | 12th June 2013

There are two types of Joss Whedon fan: the kind that admires how he managed to give due weight to each character in the Avengers while still littering the film with cool and funny moments, and the kind that yells "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? JOSS IS A GENIUS-GOD WHO SHOULD HAVE HAD HOLLYWOOD EATING OUT THE PALM OF HIS HAND YEARS AGO! ALSO I CAN SING ALL THE LINES TO EVERY SONG IN THE MUSICAL EPISODE OF BUFFY". I fall very much in the latter camp, which basically makes me a horrible person to be around. It also means that I'm the kind of person who will blindly squee his way along to see this film without giving a moment's thought to the fact that, oh yeah, everyone in it is going to be speaking 'Shakespeare'.

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Superman superpowers we probably won't see in Man Of Steel

Movie Feature | Matt | 10th June 2013

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Also able to create miniature versions of himself and kiss like a date rapist!

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