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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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7 things you didn't spot in the first-look photo of the new Terminator film

Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 1st August 2018

Whether you want it or not, Untitled Terminator Reboot is on the way. Arnie is back! Because lol. More importantly, James Cameron is back too! Now we just have to wait and see if his producer credit amounts to any more input than that time he tried to convince us all that Terminator: Genisys was a â€œRenaissanceâ€. His actual word.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D

Movie Review | Becky Suter | 31st August 2017

3D movies are a bit like the T-1000: you can knock them down, but they will keep getting back up. Killing time until the Avatar sequels come out, James Cameron spent six months post-converting his 1991 classic to 3D, at the precise moment that major TV manufacturers announced theyâ€™re not going to make any more 3D TVs. You donâ€™t need me to tell you that Terminator 2: Judgment Day is as close to perfect an action movie can get, so the question is: why bother with a rerelease? Fortunately the answer is simple: because it looks fricking awesome.

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Dear James Cameron, please stop encouraging Terminator sequels, ta

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 14th August 2017

This is not a hit-piece on James Cameron. I love James Cameron. I think Terminator 2 is one of the best films of all time. I held the first screening of True Lies in London for 20 years. I cried at Titanic. I will vigorously defend the concept of the Avatar sequels to the hilt. But this is not a love letter to James Cameron either. This is a sternly worded warning to James Cameron that politely requests he stops encouraging, endorsing and/or making Terminator movies. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

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You made Avatar a success, now quit complaining about the sequels

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 15th April 2016

Is there a word used on social media and comment threads more cringeworthy than "Avatards"? Not only is it not remotely funny, it's usually accompanied by a lazy, sneering dismissal of James Cameron's Avatar sequels, or more specifically, the rapidly increasing volume of them. I admit, I am fascinated by the highs and lows of the Avatar franchise, the record-breaking box office haul and the subsequent disappearing act from the nation's consciousness (this article from Forbes, on Avatar's lack of "pop-culture footprint", is sadly accurate). But have we really become so jaded and so short-sighted that we're dismissing out of hand sequels to the most popular movie of all time; a movie that, just seven years ago, we ALL paid money hand over fist to go and see? You and I are both complicit: we all were Avatards and we will be again (and again, and again, and finally once more in 2023).

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One from the mailbag: A True Lies extra gets in touch

Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 28th May 2015

I honestly have no idea how he got hold of my email address.

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TheShiznit.co.uk presents... True Lies: the whole covert operation

Movie Feature | Matt | 6th April 2013

Just a few nights ago, we hosted our very own screening of True Lies at London's bestest venue for film events, The Prince Charles Cinema. You may have seen us invite you once or twice. Sorry about all the begging. And the threats. And the crying.

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11 amazing truths about True Lies

Movie Feature | Matt | 1st April 2013

Because we need SOMETHING on which to hang another shameless plug of our screening.

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TheShiznit.co.uk presents: True Lies

Movie Feature | Ali | 25th January 2013

True: TheShiznit.co.uk are hosting a screening of James Cameron's underrated action epic True Lies on Weds 3rd April, 8.30pm, at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square. Lie: it will not be awesome.

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So that's why he went down there...

Movie News | Luke | 30th March 2012

Source: a shit joke I made on twitter.

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