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Review: Period. End of Sentence. is a so-so doc, necessary conversation starter

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 1st March 2019

It's sometimes fun to imagine what aliens would make of our planet. What would they think of the huge green mass on the left committing a gross act of spiritual harm by putting a smaller orange mass in charge, for instance? Or the ones wearing bowler hats destroying their economy just because the neighbours are into Eurotrance? Madness. And pogs - what the fuck?! But probably the strangest thing to them would be seeing half the planet's population bleeding from their reproductive organs once a month as part of an essential species-prolonging biological function, and the other half going "ewww!" and repressing them since the beginning of time.

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Please enjoy this, shall we say, sideways look at the 2019 Academy Awards

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 25th February 2019

I didn't watch the Oscars. Might as well admit that now, right off the bat. I have kids and I'm just coming off the back of an exhausting weekend in Peppa Pig World, so staying up all night to watch Bohemian Rhapsody win the award for Best Editing wasn't particularly high on my agenda if I'm being honest, nor would it have been if I was lucid. Come to think of it, I've never stayed up to watch the Oscars. Is that weird? I just really value my sleep. Besides, I have Twitter. I have the internet. I get it. I've seen the pictures. I'm familiar with the big talking points so I'm qualified to discuss them and cast a 'wry eye' over the night's proceedings, like Alan Coren or Doonesbury or some shit.

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20 reasons why, actually, a Popular Movie Oscar is a good thing, actually

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 8th August 2018

Exciting news in the world of the Academy Awards, the most exciting academy awards there are!

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30 other Oscar slip-ups on the night that nobody noticed

Movie Feature | Ali Gray, Matt Looker, Becky Suter, Ed Williamson | 28th February 2017

The usually prestigious Academy Awards were reduced to farce earlier this week, when the wrong envelope was given to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who mistakenly announced the wrong movie as Best Picture. This titanic clusterfuck actually did the Oscars a favour, drawing attention away from these other 30 goofs that all happened on the night.

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If 2017's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth

Movie Feature | Ali Gray, Matt Looker, Neil Alcock, Becky Suter, Ed Williamson | 24th January 2017

The mainstream media is full of fake news. Hollywood is full of failing celebs, who don't even know me. If the big movies this Oscar season, which I hear are very overrated, told the truth, they'd look like this. Sad!

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Bollocks to theatre, says Rylance

Movie News | Ed Williamson | 29th February 2016

Newly crowned Oscar recipient Mark Rylance today told the theatre it could do one.

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28 things that other actors should now try to win an Oscar

Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 29th February 2016

Well done, Leo. After 25 years in the industry and 6 nominations, you have finally won an Oscar, and all it took was an epic feat of endurance, a disgusting loss of dignity and an entire internet's worth of pity.

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Art vs heart: why the bout of Birdman vs Boyhood had no real winner

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 23rd February 2015

Except Birdman. That was kind of the winner.

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If 2015's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth

Movie Feature | Ali Gray, Matt Looker, Ed Williamson, Luke Whiston, Becky Suter | 15th January 2015

Shut up everyone, the Oscar nominations have been announced! No one cares about your new haircut, Janice! As is customary around these parts, it's impossible for us to comment on a news item without making some sort of crudely Photoshopped picture, so we decided to make new posters for the nominees that tell you what you can really expect.

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What if John Travolta read the names of the Best Picture nominees?

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 6th March 2014

We've all had a good laugh at poor old John Travolta for his unfortunate lingual boner at the Oscars - the moment he introduced actress/singer Idina Menzel on stage as "Adele Dazeem", he practically invited the entire internet round to ridicule him. Travolta may have flubbed Menzel's name, but it could have been worse: what if John had been tasked with reading the names of the nine movies nominated for Best Picture? And we all had to just go with it? Let's dare to go to there.

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