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Review: The King is a noble effort, if not majestic, rings Hollow, etc.
Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 20th November 2019
To my shame as an Englishman I am not well-versed in the works of William Shakespeare. I know the gist of Romeo & Juliet, and that there's a character called Bottom in another one. But if you put me on the spot and told me to write an analysis of The Taming of the Shrew, you'd probably walk in on me on the toilet half an hour later watching YouTube tutorials on how to hypnotise small mammals. Not that I don't appreciate the plays - their effect on the world's culture is undeniable - just beyond my school years I've struggled to find the enthusiasm and time to really get into them. Don't ask me why I can recite Congo word-for-word, though.
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It Comes At Night
Movie Review | Becky Suter | 7th July 2017
The real monsters are inside us, you know. For example, there’s a demon that lives inside of me that comes out after approximately 3 glasses of Chilean chardonnay. Aside from my semi-serious drinking problem, It Comes At Night teaches us that any external creepy threats are nothing compared to the horrors at home. Yeah, think on that.
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Black Mass
Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 4th December 2015
There are a couple of premises on which Black Mass relies in lieu of a unique selling point. One is the idea, mainly established by marketing over the years, that a radical physical transformation for a role equals a daring and probably great performance. The other is that the audience's familiarity with the structure of the real-life gangster movie is enough to justify doing it all over again. Both are fallacies, and neither is enough to make it sparkle.
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The 10 greatest Gatsby trailer faces
Movie Feature | Ali | 5th April 2013
Baz Luhrmann: master of subtlety.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Movie Review | Neil | 21st January 2013
If you think your job's difficult, try being a CIA officer on the hunt for the world's least favourite terrorist. If it's not bad enough that your quarry is probably holed up in an anonymous cave in the middle of nowhere, you can barely enjoy your lunch break without something exploding all over you and you have to be across some of the world's most baffling jargon. So next time your PC point blank refuses to communicate with the office printer, think yourself lucky you're not involved in a black bag operation at angels two zero AGL with only three mikes left before you're completely winchester.
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 6th December 2012
Star Wars or no Star Wars, here's Disney's bread and butter: family films about something magical happening. Now, there's not a lot of point complaining that they're overly saccharine: you knew what you signed up for and you got it. The Odd Life of Timothy Green spoons on a couple of extra helpings of sugar, sure, but I can hack that happily enough. What's tougher to get around is a structure that means it's painted itself into a corner within the first five minutes. Wait a second: bread, butter, sugar, paint ... nope, no mixed metaphors there. We're good to go.
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Win Warrior on Blu-ray by looking inside this internet page
Movie Competition | Ali | 16th February 2012
Here's your chance to win officially the sixth best film of 2011 on spangly Blu-ray: three copies of Warrior are up for grabs. And punches. And crotch-punches. And kicks. And face-kicks.
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Warrior
Movie Review | Ali | 19th September 2011
At a glance, Warrior looks like just another scrapper drama – dudes get into fights, one emerges victorious, life lessons are learned along the way, someone angling for a poster quote compares it to Raging Bull and we all go home with our bloodlust slaked. Shortlist's poster quote – "All the Rockys rolled into one!" – reads more like a back-handed compliment than an enthusiastic recommendation. As it unfolds, however, Warrior reveals itself to be more than just a brainless slugger – like the best boxing movies, it's able to utterly wrap you up in the moment and have you punching the air come its conclusion. Oh, and Warrior doesn't just have punching... it has kicking, too. Face kicking.
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The Thing prequel has a trailer; the trailer has Inception Horn
Movie Trailer | Ali | 14th July 2011
(*THIIIIINNNNGGG*) The long-dormant prequel to The Thing has a trailer. (*THIIIIINNNNGGG*) It stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and that guy from Dumb & Dumberer. (*THIIIIINNNNGGG*)
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