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  • Things that only happen in Richard Curtis films #326: laughing at rain

    Movie Feature | Ali | 15th May 2013

    First Four Weddings, now About Time. I think I know what Alan Partridge would have to say about this...

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  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 23rd February 2012

    It's very hard to go into a film with no preconceptions. Unless you give Ali's 'no advance knowledge of Man of Steel' project a go yourself, there are too many posters, trailers and blogs around not to have some prejudice when you walk in. I certainly did. I thought I'd hate The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; that it'd be full of lovely old middle-class people being lovely, old and middle-class, who then go through life-changing crises I wouldn't care about because they're lovely, old and … you get the picture. It is, of course, full of exactly this. But it's also crammed with some of the best British actors you could want to see on screen, and that's just about enough to carry it. Which is annoying really, because I had to scrap most of the put-downs I'd written on the way there.

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  • Arthur Christmas

    Movie Review | Ali | 9th November 2011

    I always feel a little pang of guilt whenever I give a kiddy film a negative review, because obviously they are made for small, easily pleased children and not hardened, 30-year-old cynics who spend their evenings sitting in front of a computer thinking of witty put-downs while wearing Batman pyjamas and eating pies. Thankfully, with Arthur Christmas, I don't have to feel bad, because – brace yourselves – it's an absolute Christmas cracker. Hands off, Robbie Collin – that one's MINE.

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  • Wild Target

    Movie Review | Matt | 23rd June 2010

    Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman, even Rab C Nesbitt...all secretly smirking on a bright white background surrounded by guns and money. Yup, this is a poster for a right ol' English caper. There's even a pink cat, because we Brits love a good 'animal dyed a funny colour' joke. And then there's Emily Blunt who should just know better. Not that this is a particularly terrible film, it's just that everything about it screams silly and twee British farce. And for once Richard Curtis is nowhere to be seen.

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  • Shaun Of The Dead

    Movie Review | Ali | 12th September 2004

    Aside from the ridiculously high placing of the Vicar of Dibley in the BBC's recent backslapping Britain's Best Sitcoms event, perhaps the most bogus omission from the coveted list was Spaced. Channel 4's slick twentysomething flat-sharing sitcom failed even to make the top fifty despite having more cutting wit and cultural nou...

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