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Kick-Ass 2

Movie Review | Ali | 15th August 2013

Remember the key word of superhero sequel The Dark Knight? Escalation. Christopher Nolan took the events of Batman Begins and used them as a foundation for the mayhem to come: how would Bruce Wayne's actions in the first movie affect the world in which he lived? Well, Kick-Ass 2 takes exactly the same approach by expanding its world, but somehow manages to feel smaller and less impressive as a result.

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The Big Wedding

Movie Review | Ali | 22nd May 2013

I've seen my fair share of wedding movies over the years but the damn things all melt into one in my head afterwards. Once you've established your wacky line-up of one-note characters, the screenplay practically writes itself. Having forced myself to sit through marital comedy The Big Wedding, I thought I'd take a similar approach with my review and just write an exhaustive list of every single wedding clichÃ© I spotted. That's the bare minimum, but in this genre, the bare minimum is all you need.

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Taken 2

Movie Review | Matt | 21st September 2012

When Liam Neeson uses his particular set of skills - y'know, the ones that he has acquired over a very long career - to hunt you down, it turns out that what he'll do to you is nothing compared to the butchering you'll receive in the editing suite afterwards.

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Liam Neeson dials down threat following Taken 2's 12A rating

Movie News | Ali | 15th September 2012

Revenge-fulled violent kidnap torturefest Taken 2 goes for the teen pocket money demographic with a 12A rating. (Full BBFC details here).

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Taken 2 to feature guns, mourning, torture, extreme air guitar

Movie News | Ali | 1st September 2012

If it's anything like its predecessor, Taken 2 will feature lots of shots of Liam Neeson looking pained, plenty of gunplay and more than its fair share of torture. One new addition for the sequel, however, is the inclusion of rockin' out. Let me explain.

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Incredible synopsis for Taylor Lautner's parkour movie, Tracers

Movie Feature | Ali | 17th May 2012

Good old T-Lautz hasn't let the end of Twilight get him down: he's picked himself up, signed on to a movie about free-running and got his ass down to Cannes to sell it to the highest bidder. Anyone? Anyone?

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Dark Shadows

Movie Review | Matt | 10th May 2012

Time to break out the Tim Burton checklist then. Comedy-horror with supernatural elements? Check. Johnny Depp? Obvs. Score by Danny Elfman? Yuh-huh. Helena Bonham Carter? Of course. Pop culture retread? Yes. The time has long passed when one of Hollywood's most original directors has become a parody of himself. And as his once twisted gothic visuals have now given way to colourful cartoonish CGI, you have to ask "Damn - why didn't you make a vampire movie 15 years ago?"

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Mind-blowing movie-based time-lapse video of the day

Movie News | Ali | 3rd April 2012

Courtesy of Jeff Desom of Vimeo (via @James_Warren)

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Competition: Win Faster on DVD

Movie Competition | Ali | 1st August 2011

(*plays jingle*) It's compe-tition tiiiime! (*dances awkwardly*)

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Let Me In

Movie Review | Matt | 5th November 2010

Ugh, remakes. Am I right, guys? Take a perfectly good Swedish vampire film, strip the subtitles, gloss it up and re-release it for American audiences to cash in on the Twilight craze. Sound about right? Well no, actually we were all wrong. I was expecting to walk out of the cinema spitting vitriol at Let Me In's vast inferiority to the 2008 original (already cult favourite) film Let the Right One In, but this remake is actually pretty good. No, it's better than that - it's almost just as good.

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