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Review: The House With A Clock In Its Walls is a fun waste of time

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 18th September 2018

Ugh. September. The worst month by some distance. Nothing good has ever happened in September. I checked history, which verified and confirmed: September is a dud. All the blockbusters are a distant memory, the big Christmas movies are too far away (see also: Christmas) and even the tiresome slog that is Oscar season has yet to get underway. That just leaves shitty geriaction movies where Denzel Washington kills people, horror movies that are too crap to save for Halloween and oddball movies that genuinely don't fit in anywhere else in the calendar. Mercifully, that last sub-genre occasionally yields surprising results, which is where The House With A Clock In Its Walls chimes in: it's not quite enough to salvage the September cesspool, but it is a fun kids' fantasy that does just about enough to distract you from the backslide into the arse end of the year.

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The Muppets

Movie Review | Ali | 11th February 2012

I'm not quite old enough to have enjoyed The Muppet Show the first time around, so despite being a fan of Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal and all things Henson, I never really had Kermit and co as cultural touchstones growing up. However, even without that built-in base of nostalgia, I can wholeheartedly recommend The Muppets' big-screen comeback to moviegoers young, old and in between â€“ I can't remember the last time I giggled so long and hard at such wanton silliness.

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Fight For Your Right Revisited

Movie Feature | Ali | 8th May 2011

I was all set to use my unparalleled exclusive access as an iTunes customer to review the new Beastie Boys short film that came with their new album, but then I realised it was on YouTube and you could watch it for free. Durr.

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Gulliver's Travels

Movie Review | Rob | 30th December 2010

Gulliver's Travels - written by Jonathan Swift in 1726 - is one of the most popular stories of all time; it's never been out of print. We'll forgive a 2010 remake, then, but our memories of the text are a little foggy; we're hard pushed to recall the scene in which Gulliver is given a wedgie by a giant robot. Teacher did always say we should pay closer attention!

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Jack Black has a small part for Jason Segel in new Gulliver trailer

Movie Trailer | Luke | 3rd November 2010

Like a dolphin in the Thames, gasps of joy soon turn into muted worried looks, as we watch the latest trailer for Gulliver's Travels.

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Gulliver's Travels' trailer is exactly as good as its poster

Movie Trailer | Ali | 4th June 2010

Get it? It's funny because he's such a man-child! Again!

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Gulliver's Travels poster: can you people do NOTHING right?

Movie News | Ali | 2nd June 2010

Not only have Hollywood's elite shown themselves completely incapable of thinking of any new ideas, they can't even make humans look human on their posters any more. I despair, I really do.

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Year One

Movie Review | Ali | 20th June 2009

Director Harold Ramis first had the idea for Year One over thirty years ago. In 1975, after watching a documentary on the Stone Age, he wrote an improv with Bill Murray and John Belushi as cavemen; the former as a hip-talking Cro-Magnon Man, the latter as a grunting neanderthal. Sadly, what makes a funny sketch in the seventies ...

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Tropic Thunder

Movie Review | Ali | 22nd September 2008

It's been seven years since Ben Stiller directed a movie, poking fun at the conceited world of male models in Zoolander. Now he's jabbing at a target closer to home - Hollywood actors and their diva-esque behaviour. There's no danger of Stiller being castigated by his own industry, mind - he's not so much biting the hand that fe...

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Kung Fu Panda

Movie Review | Rob | 6th July 2008

Dreamworks have always played second fiddle to the almighty Pixar, churning out mostly second-rate films when compared to the Nemos and Ratatouilles of the world. Kung Fu Panda, though, may just make Andrew Stanton and friends worry that they have some serious competition. It goes without saying that the visuals are astounding -...

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