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Review: Bohemian Rhapsody isn't the real life, it's just fantasy

Movie Review | Becky Suter | 25th October 2018

Watching Bohemian Rhapsody is a bit like seeing Queen perform with Adam Lambert: yeah, the songs are all good, but at the back of your mind you know you're not getting the real deal. Bryan Singer/Dexter Fletcher's biopic is the sanitised retelling of Queen that leaves out all the good stuff in order to be family friendly. Where are the dwarves with trays of cocaine on their heads? The nights out with Kenny Everett and Princess Di in drag? Naked renditions of We Are The Champions? Can anybody find me something to love?

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X-Men: Apocalypse

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 19th May 2016

Forgive me for sounding like I'm on the company payroll, but have Marvel movies ruined superhero movies for everyone else? I fear they have. The Marvel Cinematic Universe made its own space in the superhero sphere; it owns the area marked 'fun'. DC, as a countermeasure to all the lousy fun everyone was enjoying, staked their claim on the 'serious' space; heroes with grim faces carved out of rock, pre-tantrum lip-wobble expressions lashed with rain. Where does this leave the X-Men? I'm sure I don't know anymore, because X-Men: Apocalypse attempts to be all things to all people and ends up being neither overtly fun or remotely serious, just entirely ridiculous. It feels like a superhero movie back from when no one really knew what that was supposed to mean, or, as a friend of mine put it so perfectly: "It's like a shit superhero movie from the nineties".

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X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 13th May 2014

Have you seen all of the X-Men films? Including the First Class prequel and both Wolverine movies? AND all of the mid-credits and post-credits stings that were tagged on to the end? Good. Then you may proceed. Welcome to X-Men: Retcon. I hope you've been paying attention.

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Eight astonishing things on the new X-Men: Days Of Future Past poster

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 24th March 2014

The X-Men don't historically have a lot of luck when it comes to cool poster designs - who could forget 9/3/11? - and that trend continues with this mental new one-sheet for X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Featuring: ALL OF THE THINGS.

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Jack The Giant Slayer

Movie Review | Rob | 22nd March 2013

Having grown up in a small, middle-class Conservative-voting Cambridgeshire village, Iâ€™ve seen enough poorly-acted productions of Jack and The Beanstalk to know when something isnâ€™t quite right. And "Fe-fi-fo-fum, ask not whence the thunder comes" isn't quite right.

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Jack The Giant Slayer posters spell out classic... wait, what?

Movie Feature | Matt | 13th January 2013

"... I smell the blood of an English... mallon?". (via IMP Awards).

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Tyler Mane can currently be found waiting next to all of the phones

Movie Feature | Matt | 1st December 2012

As Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Hugh Jackman get tapped up to reprise their X-Men roles in Bryan Singer's forthcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past, please take a moment to spare a thought for Tyler Mane, who has been practising his best growl all week just in case.

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World exclusive: TheShiznit.co.uk interviews Bryan Singer

Movie Feature | Ali | 25th May 2011

Unbelievably, we managed to secure a short but fascinating interview with X-Men and Superman legend Bryan Singer during his brief stay in the UK. And we're not even kidding this time.

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Bryan Singer wanted Taylor Lautner. For X-Men, I mean

Movie News | Ali | 19th July 2010

Count yourself lucky Bryan Singer was too busy to direct X-Men prequel First Class: he wanted to hire Taylor Lautner. Was there a young mutant called Pignose Manchild I wasn't aware of?

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Don't hold your breath for more Superman

Movie News | Matt | 30th November 2009

If you see something coming from Warner Bros studios in the near future, it's probably just a bird or a plane, because it sure ain't Superman.

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