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Review: Halloween is hollow and joyless, like a sad old pumpkin left out to rot
Movie Review | Ali Gray | 11th October 2018
I've always thought of slasher franchises like DIY chemistry sets. Once your hypothesis has been proven - that's your murderer, your motive and your gimmick - subsequent tests should be relatively simple to assemble: all of your elements are still available for use and you're aiming for the same reactions, but you can have a little fun in how you put them all together - experimentation is the name of the game! This Halloween revival, set 40 years after the John Carpenter original and discounting the entire subsequent sequel lore of Michael Myers, had the potential to be an interesting experiment, but it's carried out with all the zeal of someone joylessly following the instructions to build a sturdy IKEA bookcase.
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Prince Avalanche
Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 17th October 2013
The London Film Festival's in town, and that means one thing: arty stuff. Yes, lots of films about French people dicking about on windy beaches staring moodily at the horizon, or sitting in bedsits looking fed up for an hour and a half. Cracking. Here's one: Prince Avalanche. It's about these two blokes, right, and they're in the woods, and they don't talk to each other much. Now this is what a film festival's all ab... wait a sec, it's not playing at the festival? Has anyone told them?
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Pineapple Express
Movie Review | Ali | 14th September 2008
"Dude... we should, like, make a movie about a couple of potheads. They witness a murder and, like, go on the run and are chased by bent cops and shit... then at the end, we give them loads of guns and they blow loads of shit up. It'd fucking rock... Pass the bong, dude." The stoner comedy: a movie usually conceived on drugs, fi...
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