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Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is low on laughs but makes a bold statement

Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 13th August 2020

I hate the Eurovision Song Contest. I hate the blinding shiny lights and the garish tackiness - it's what I imagine dropping acid in a Claire's Accessories would be like. I hate the awkward jokes and the hosts bumbling their way through, clearly wishing they were anywhere else. I hate the smugly sly politicisation, even if it is often an accurate and honest representation of feeling towards us and our continental neighbours. I hate the forced laughter. I hate the constant smiling. But most of all I hate the songs. Yes, I hate it. I hate the Eurovision Song Contest because I hate myself and can't admit that it is in fact FUCKING BRILLIANT!

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Doctor Strange

Movie Review | Ali Gray | 3rd November 2016

Considering the X-Men movies can't even stay consistent one movie to the next, it's a minor miracle the Marvel Cinematic Universe remains a cohesive whole, 8 years and 14 movies after Nick Fury first asked Tony Stark to join his professional LinkedIn network. We've had men of technology, beasts of rage, Gods from other realms and soldiers forged in war, all now reading from the same script. The latest recruit to the MCU is Doctor Strange, who heralds the arrival of the world of magic, but - like Arrested Development's Gob Bluth and his Alliance of Magicians - demands to be taken seriously. Disbelief is being suspended at a comfortable level by now: if you're cool with purple space tyrants and talking raccoons, chances are the addition of sorcerers, supreme or otherwise, isn't going to upset the apple cart.

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Spotlight

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 19th January 2016

Spotlight appears to tick all the boxes as far as the true-life awards-season investigation drama goes. All-star, mainly male, ensemble cast to demonstrate serious dramatic heft; weighty subject matter in dealing with the cover-up of institutional child abuse. It makes a few choices you aren't expecting, though, and I can't figure out whether or not this elevates it.

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Six things that might actually be bloody going on in True Detective

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 31st July 2015

Yeah no, the bit where he gets shot by a crow? That's a metaphor for ... I want to say the war in Iraq? Don't worry, I'm all over this.

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Southpaw ad saved by last-minute reference to other boxing movie

Movie News | Ed Williamson | 16th July 2015

Upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal film Southpaw has been saved from obscurity at the eleventh hour by a journalist's agreement to be quoted comparing it to another boxing movie.

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Things that only happen in Richard Curtis films #326: laughing at rain

Movie Feature | Ali | 15th May 2013

First Four Weddings, now About Time. I think I know what Alan Partridge would have to say about this...

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Plot details for Malick's To The Wonder revealed!

Movie Feature | Matt | 8th January 2013

Plot details about Terrence Malickâ€™s latest meadow-gazer To The Wonder are scarce â€“ mainly because everyoneâ€™s still trying to find plot details for The Tree Of Life. Thankfully, weâ€™ve managed to ascertain a few clues from the available stills and posters for the film and have managed to work out a vague synopsis. Itâ€™s basically an arthouse Stuck On You.

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Rachel McAdams as Spidey's Black Cat?

Movie News | Ali | 10th November 2009

Internet fuss suggests that Rachel McAdams, who it turns out is incredibly hot when blonde*, is up for the role of Black Cat in Spider-Man 4. That's it. That's the entire story. Read on if you're bored. I am.

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The Time Traveler's Wife

Movie Review | Matt | 20th August 2009

Sci-fi geeks across the globe are scratching their heads at this one. "So there's a guy who has harnessed the power to traverse past and future...and this film is about his missus?"

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