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  • Review: Booksmart is all that was good about Superbad and more

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 6th May 2019

    The ten years since Superbad have passed in a heartbeat, that's a long time to leave between checking in with youth culture. I'm sure everything is still exactly as it was in 2009, right? [weakly] Fo' sho. Booksmart, the fantastic debut directorial effort from Olivia Wilde, is proof that while things change, they've very much stayed the same: today's high schoolers might be newly woke and progressive and tolerant, but they're still all about end of term ragers and macking with hotties. Kids still say all of those words, I assume? Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

  • No, Bret Easton Ellis. No.

    Movie News | Ali | 16th August 2011

    Author Bret Easton Ellis has been teasing a new movie version of his book, Glamorama, but we're not keen on the teen dream he's seen.

  • Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

    Movie Review | Ali | 4th July 2009

    First, an admission: I've not read the Harry Potter books. Go ahead: take me out back and shoot me. I've seen the films and enjoyed them as passing distractions, but never felt obliged to comment, given that they're so clearly aimed at the hardcore fans - trying to review them would be like pretending to support a football team ...

  • Confessions Of A Shopaholic

    Movie Review | Anna | 24th February 2009

    It seems that any female New Yorker worthy of screen time must be a writer or an aspiring writer - see: Betty Suarez (Ugly Betty), Carrie Bradshaw (Sex And The City), Andy Sachs (The Devil Wears Prada) - so we're already on familiar ground with Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher), a journalist in the Big Apple. Rebecca starts out...