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Review: Venom is a toothless throwback to the worst era of superhero movies

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 3rd October 2018

Letâ€™s get something clear: itâ€™s not grey-faced film snobbery, itâ€™s not misunderstanding why a villainous antihero deserves his own movie, itâ€™s not bad memories of Topher Grace, and it has nothing to do with Lady Gaga fans trying to help A Star Is Born top the box office chart. The reason why critics have felt their shitey sense tingling in advance of Venomâ€™s release is because it has always looked terrible. The trailers showcased a comic-book movie from a bygone decade in which superpowers were fuelled by cheesey dialogue, bad CGI and maddening plot holes. Weâ€™ve all been standing downwind of this turd for quite some time, so low expectations are entirely justified. Ok, maybe itâ€™s a little bit because of Topher Grace.

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Ranking all the Eddie Brock/Venom transformations so far

Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 3rd August 2018

Those new Venom trailers are something, eh? Lots of shots of Tom Hardy twitching, some nonsense science scenes and one truly excellent set-piece in which Hardy comes off his bike a bit and then uses his incredible alien powers to get back on his bike a bit. Still, at least we have some shots of the titular ET himself to gawk at and argue over.

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Dunkirk

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 18th July 2017

I don't want to write off an entire category of cinema, but... war films. They can be a bit heavy-going, can't they? Yes, there are some amazing standouts in this crowded genre, but it can be really hard to muster up the enthusiasm to watch a movie depicting the experience of war, which is basically: it's truly horrifying when not intensely boring. Luckily, things are different this time round, because a) Christoper Nolan films have never not been great, b) it's mercifully short at under two hours, and c) maybe there'll be a twist and the soldiers of Dunkirk will get rescued by Batman?

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Hardy to get knob out on CBeebies

TV News | Ed Williamson | 6th April 2017

Tom Hardy's popular stint on Bedtime Stories is to end with a series finale in which he just shows you his penis.

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The Revenant

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 25th January 2016

Poor Oscarless Leo. Just imagine the soul-crushing frustration that must come after enduring unimaginable feats of survival in the making of this film, only for everyone instead to talk about the (false) rumour that you get raped by a bear in it. Imagine having the fortitude of character to eat raw bison liver and climb inside a dead animal carcass for the sake of your art and then have all your efforts overshadowed by the collective public thinking that, at one point in the movie, a horny grizzly surprises you with a sexual ambush. And the worst part is, with all attention on that ridiculous story instead of Leo's dedication to his performance, it might actually cost him the Oscar. That bear might just end up fucking Leo after all.

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Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015's best film by a thousand miles

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 31st December 2015

I actually watched Mad Max: Fury Road in its week of release, but it was such an overwhelming experience it's taken me all of seven months to mentally unpack it all, like when someone emails you a crazy big zip file which basically nerfs your inbox and you can't do anything until it's properly downloaded. That, with writing. Anyway. This is the best film of the year by a very long stretch, I'm off to watch it again because it got it on Blu-ray for Christmas and oh you've already stopped reading.

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Legend

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 10th September 2015

Itâ€™s no great revelation to say that biopics, by their nature, are fundamentally flawed. Unless somebodyâ€™s life follows a perfect three-act structure, unless the subjects really are two-dimensional models of greatness, and unless any number of indiscretions or inaccuracies can be overlooked without raising too many eyebrows, then biopics tend to fall into the viewing equivalent of the uncanny valley. While all of these still apply to Legend, the film makes up for it with one brilliantly simple decision: to treat the Krays like completely ridiculous, larger-than-life, cartoonish characters of fiction. And itâ€™s probably safe to say that they are so much more fun that way.

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Well it's better than "Visionary"...

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 1st April 2015

The new Mad Max: Fury Road trailer probably wouldn't have been quite so badass if it was billed as "From the guy who has literally only directed Happy Feet movies so far this century."

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The Drop

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 13th November 2014

Now look. You might have seen some pictures of Tom Hardy and a puppy. And yes, it's all very cute and everything, but I'd like it if we could just get past that and focus on what is after all a very atmospheric crime thriller that makes good use of AWWWW LOOK AT ITS WIDDLE FACE

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Five Peaky Blinders anagrams that make better titles

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 2nd October 2014

Peaky Blinders, while being fairly good and having the advantage of a second-season role for Tom Hardy, which will factually be brilliant, is saddled with a rubbish title.

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