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Review: Alita: Battle Angel has one foot in the future, one in the past

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 13th February 2019

Does James Cameron's name attached to a movie mean anything anymore? With the skidmark of Terminator Genisys refusing to fade from the collective pop culture underpant, and the inevitable Avatar sequel debacle still a few merciful years away, we have a new Cameron project to mull over in the meantime. Alita: Battle Angel, a live-action sci-fi epic based on a popular Japanese anime, has been on JC's to-do list since the early 2000s but he's finally delegated it off his plate, handing over his dusty old screenplay to best pal Robert Rodriguez. I don't like the phrase 'sloppy seconds', but, well, I've said it now, it's out there, and in actual fact, in saying it I've basically answered the question I set out in the first line, so here we are, the review has begun, strap yourselves in everyone.

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LFF 2017: Downsizing

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 18th October 2017

You would think that a film about shrinking people down to miniature size would primarily be about doll houses and hilariously oversized pencils â€“ and there is a lot of that here â€“ but mostly Alexander Payneâ€™s new 'short' film is concerned with socio-political issues and climate change. Itâ€™s a film that says you should be doing more for your fellow man and for the environment. Basically, it has the power to make you feel very small indeed.

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Spectre

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 21st October 2015

If Daniel Craig's incarnation of 007 had any agenda over the course of his previous three films, it was to get Bond back to basics, away from the spoofable superspy tropes of volcano lairs and invisible cars. Acting as a prequel series to the franchise sold this idea rather well, presenting us with a simple, bold and brutal spy at the start of his game. The problem is, each Craig film so far has ended with Bond primed and positioned to become the man we see at the start of Dr No, and they have created hidden steps along that journey. As such it has felt like a cheat, like counting down "three, two, one, er... a half, a quarter, an eighth" and so on. But now Spectre really feels like we have finally reached the end of that countdown, and it does so in part by tying all the previous films together into one conclusion. But it also does it by embracing all the embarrassingly awful 007 traditions that this modern Bond had previously shied away from.

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Horrible Bosses 2

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 19th November 2014

Nobody expected a sequel to Horrible Bosses - least of all the people who made it. However, a $200 million box-office receipt was too big to ignore, so Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis are back with their horrible bosses (that aren't even really their bosses) along for the paycheque. There's a palpable sense here of making hay while the sun shines: some might see Horrible Bosses 2 as the most cynical of sequels, but just as the hapless characters wing their way through each step of their terrible, ill-thought-out plan with a wink and a smile, so do the filmmakers, making sure we know they're having fun while doing so. That kind of infectious goofiness can't be faked, thus Horrible Bosses 2 is a very easy movie to enjoy.

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Muppets Most Wanted

Movie Review | Rob Young | 25th March 2014

As the jovial opening number points out, the Muppets are back, by popular demand. Because that's what they do in Hollywood, even if everybody knows the sequel's never quite as good. Nevertheless, the studio considers them a viable franchise. The tune, happily poking fun at Hollywood's fascination with sequels, is just one of the many self-depreciating, self-aware gags that litter this sequel.

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Django Unchained

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 14th January 2013

I've seen Django Unchained twice now. After the second viewing, I looked back through the notes I'd made after the first, and realised that most of them were now useless. As with a lot of Quentin Tarantino's work, it takes more than one watch to fully form an opinion, but in this case I'd changed my mind almost entirely. I read back through them, crossing out complaints regarding its lengthy, meandering scenes and its jarring refusal to end at its obvious conclusion. But I understand these things better now for what they are: exercises in character development that make this one of its author's richest and most engaging works.

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Final trailer for Django Unchained features rap, funk, GUNS

Movie Trailer | Luke | 29th November 2012

(*makes gun fingers*) Pew pew! (*laughs*) Hey, you're meant to pew pew back! Pew pew! (*looks at smoke coming from fingers, body on floor*) Oh my God it's happening again BRAAAAAHHHHHHM

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Carnage

Movie Review | Matt | 2nd February 2012

If you type 'Carnage' into IMDB, you'll find it is the alternative title to The Nail Gun Massacre, A Bay Of Blood and even Prime Cut, an early Gene Hackman film about a cattle rancher who "grinds his enemies into sausage". It's the kind of title you'd expect to see propped up on the bargain shelf at Asda with a cover showing Stone Cold Steve Austin walking away from an exploding jeep. And yet here I am reviewing Roman Polanski's new low-key character-based comedy. It's almost a shame.

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The Three Musketeers is certainly shaping up to be a film

Movie Trailer | Ali | 29th June 2011

Look at this new trailer; it has human actors in it, special effects of some derivation, it even appears to have a script. Yes, Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers will be a film all right.

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Trailer: The Three Musketeers looks suitably ridiculous

Movie Trailer | Ali | 27th March 2011

Unsurprisingly, given that it's from the director of the Resident Evil franchise, historical accuracy is not high on the agenda. Sword-sporting gimps and giant airships on the other hand? YO.

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