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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 10th June 2018

I am a Jurassic Park sequel apologist. I am a Jurassic sequapologist. Thereâ€™s no shame in loving the original movie, obviously, and I maintain that Jurassic World was an unapologetic, fan-pleasing blockbuster that wanted to reach even farther than Michael Crichtonâ€™s visionary thinking. But the sequels? I am at war with myself. The Lost World sort of has some good bits? The birdcage bit in Jurassic Park III was cool, I guess? Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, sadly, is a different beast entirely: it is the first Jurassic movie I havenâ€™t enjoyed unreservedly from the get-go. With the other duffers Iâ€™d eventually pick up on the flaws after multiple rewatches - this is the only Jurassic Park movie Iâ€™ll have to learn to love.

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Atomic Blonde

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 11th August 2017

I'd have been cool if I lived in Berlin in the Cold War. You would've been too: we would've smoked constantly and worn elegantly distressed charity-shop peacoats and listened to Bowie in a Lada. Maybe we could've been happy there, you and me.

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Sunday fun: Spot the difference!

Movie Feature | Ali | 16th December 2012

Can you spot the five differences between these two pictures of Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock for TV drama The Girl? Take your time!

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ITV's Titanic to be longer than Titanic, possibly worse

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 27th December 2011

Morning, ITV. What do you reckon to this dead horse I've got here? Hey, stop flogging it! I'll have to take it to the vet's now. Yes, I know it's dead already. I didn't think the whole scenario through, all right? Shut up, ITV.

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Why does The Guardian hate Tintin?

Movie Feature | Ali | 1st November 2011

You may have already seen Steven Spielberg's new movie, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. It's good, huh? Well, The Guardian couldn't disagree more: in fact, they've dedicated ~~FOUR~~ SIX separate op-ed pieces on why they disliked it so much. Protest much?

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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

Movie Review | Ali | 16th October 2011

Despite a directorial career that spans â€“ holy shit, 40 years? â€“ The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn is Steven Spielberg's first animated film. Techniques have come and gone over the years, barriers have been broken, box-office records and preconceptions shattered alike, but only now has Spielberg decided the medium is ready for him â€“ and he's picked his moment well. For all of the good work done by Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson and James Cameron, it is Spielberg who has justified the existence of motion-capture technology: The Adventures Of Tintin is a relentlessly thrilling, rip-roaring yarn that's as close as anyone has ever come to bringing a comic-book to life.

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Captain America: The First Avenger

Movie Review | Ali | 22nd July 2011

Even next to Thor, a movie about a space god with a magic hammer, Captain America: The First Avenger was always going to be one of Marvel's trickiest properties to do justice to. Here's what amounts to my review, in musical form.

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Frost/Nixon

Movie Review | Rob | 26th January 2009

David Frost. Many of us probably know him as that bloke who used to poke his nose through keyholes, but back in the '70s, Frost was kind of a big deal - a media playboy who was making a name for himself on the box both in London and Australia. However, after his New York chat show was cancelled, Frost was desperate to save ...

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The Mist

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd July 2008

First of all, forget any lingering thoughts you might have of the recent remake of John Carpenter's The Fog: the only thing it has in common with The Mist is shitty weather. Adapted from the Stephen King novel and released in November in the US, it's been awaiting a UK release for months - countries like Estonia, Latvia and even...

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