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Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home but back to brilliant basics

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 28th June 2019

The epic, end-of-times extravaganza of Endgame left us with many questions: Has the timeline now been irreparably changed? Who are the Avengers now? Where the fuck did Valkyrie suddenly get a flying horse? And also, how does the world adjust to half of its population now having a five-year age gap? What about all the parents that missed out on seeing their children grow up? All the spouses that remarried in that time? All those people that were snapped out of existence while on their way to return something to a shop, only to be brought back and find out that their receipt is now five years out of date? If those questions are going to be addressed at all, it isnâ€™t happening with this first film out of the gate since the 'snapback'. No, this is just very much Spider-Man back to doing whatever a spider can.

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Marvel's Cine-CHAT-ic Universe: Iron Man 2 (2010)

Movie Feature | Ali Gray, Matt Looker, Becky Suter, Ed Williamson | 12th November 2017

It's time for a brand new installment of the feature we can't believe no one else is doing: talking about Marvel movies! After kicking off with Iron Man and seriously questioning the format with The Incredible Hulk, we're officially into sequel territory with Iron Man 2, the first movie that knew it was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or should we say... Cine-CHAT-ic Universe? No. No we shouldn't. We should use the correct terminology.

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Marvel's Cine-CHAT-ic Universe: Iron Man (2008)

Movie Feature | Ali Gray, Matt Looker, Becky Suter, Ed Williamson | 22nd September 2017

Is it too late to change the name?

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 30th June 2017

Following his glorified cameo in Captain America: Civil War, everyone has been wondering exactly how how Marvel will reboot the character in his own solo outing. No one wants to see another bitey radioactive spider, but how do you tell an origin story without actually telling the origin story? Is he definitely part of the ongoing Marvel timeline forever more? Can he suddenly slot into the meticulously planned MCU? Basically, is the title correct? Is Spider-Man really coming home?

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The Jungle Book

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 15th April 2016

Will they... will they be singing? The 1967 classic animation is so embedded in the public consciousness that it's difficult to know what to expect from this live-action retelling. What will the life-like animals look like when they talk? Will Mowgli look just like cartoon Mowgli? Will Baloo at any point wear coconut shells and a hula skirt? And what of the songs? Those legendary earworms so infectious that it's going to be hard not to resort to punning references throughout this entire review? Thankfully, Jon Favreau delivers a film that is just as wonderful and captivating as that original classic, and he does so by concentrating on the bare n-... the basics. He concentrates on the basics.

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Interview: Jon Favreau on Swingers, Friends, Iron Man and Chef

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 23rd June 2014

This may not have escaped your attention, but I like films. I also like food, which definitely hasn't escaped your attention. I've loved the work of Jon Favreau ever since Swingers got me out of a five-year relationship slump, so you can imagine my delight when I learned of Chef: a film about food, written by, directed by and starring Jon Favreau. On the surface it's about sandwiches, but it's really all about getting back to your roots; for Favreau, it's a return to the style which made Swingers so beloved by proto-hipsters like myself. When given the chance to interview Jon, I practically bit his hand off. Because I was hungry. Hungry for journalism. And sandwiches.

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People Like Us

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 9th November 2012

It's fair to say Disney's been getting a little edgier in the films it distributes in recent years. But here's a new one on me: People Like Us, a likeable enough cookie-cutter 'douchey guy learns to be less douchey' flick, is at its core a film about incest. You heard.

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TheShiznit.co.uk presents... Swingers: the whole swingin' shindig

Movie Feature | Ali | 2nd July 2012

As I think I may have previously mentioned, we hosted our very own screening of Swingers on Thursday last week, and now we'd like to tell you all about it, because this is our website and we can do whatever we want with it, so there.

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Back later, out swinging

Movie News | Ali | 28th June 2012

Although it's not too late to swing by...

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A poster for a thing we're doing

Movie News | Ali | 18th June 2012

Pretty sure I've mentioned it. (Details here, full size poster here).

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