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With just one day to spare, it’s time to reveal…
Once every twelve months, the day finally comes when I take it upon myself to be especially nice about a dozen or so movies in the interest of celebrating the year’s cinematic output. Today is that...
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This is a still from one of the best movies of 2013. Seriously.
Find out which one at my brand new, irregularly updated Best Movies of 2013 list.
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Five things it’s worth knowing about Run For Your Wife
With middle-age titans A Good Day to Die Hard and This Is 40 set to be the only major studio films competing for box office glory this Valentine’s Day, the field is wide open for a hip, young...
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Five teen movies to get stupidly excited for in 2013
With 2012 proving to be the best twelve months for teen movies in quite literally donkey’s years, all eyes are now on 2013 to deliver on the promise of its predecessor. Here are five titles due out...
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We’re ten days into 2013, and this is already the poster of the year.
With a US release set for March 22nd, a trailer primed to debut later this month, and now the unveiling of the monstrous dayglo masterpiece above, shit’s really gearing up for Harmony Korine’s...
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The five Dutchest angles in the trailer for Danny Boyle’s Trance
Perhaps the most astounding thing about Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony show Isles of Wonder was not its spectacular scale or painstaking exactitude, but the fact that its director managed to...
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Guess the number of seconds the BBFC will cut from Maniac and win a book...
I finally saw Maniac, Franck Khalfoun’s gruesome POV slasher starring Elijah Wood as a part-time mannequin enthusiast and full-time serial killer, on Monday night, and I can confirm that it’s one of...
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I’ve decided to save HMV, one £252.75 purchase at a time.
My heart sank on Tuesday afternoon when the news came through that the HMV Group had entered administration. Not because I’d actually spent any money there in the last five years or used any of their...
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“Nobody wants to buy a computer! Nobody!” proclaims Josh Gad, the Chris Pratt to 2008′s 2013, in this new clip from jOBS. The first (and almost certainly lesser) of two forthcoming Steve Jobs biopics...
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Here are the rules of my ‘Flight’ drinking game…
Sobriety initiative Dry January finally comes to an end this Friday, and what better way to celebrate than by going to see Flight, perhaps the drunkest movie of the year. To help you enjoy the film as...
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Evil Dead has been cut. Now, will somebody please give a shit?
The BBFC put a book out recently, and it’s a fascinating read for various reasons, not least of which is that it’s hard to read a single page without at some point exclaiming ‘you’ll never believe...
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What can we learn from the clouds on this Fast & Furious 6 poster?
Not since Robert Zemeckis favoured stargazing over star-power on his ultra-minimalist one-sheet for Flight has a studio marketing department allowed through a poster containing as much negative space...
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This is the first still from Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’
And what a showstopper it is. Helpfully, the image has been released with a resolution of just 600px by 336px, meaning the collapsed Charlotte Gainsbourg at the centre of its frame takes up all of...
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How to sell a film in which Danny Dyer plays a bi-curious sailor to the Great...
As British film distributors go, Revolver Entertainment is an unusual case. In its salad days, the company focused mainly on fringe releases — classy titles like Backyard Babes and Snoop Dogg’s...
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For my sins: a liveblog of the 2013 BAFTA awards
It seems like every year I pledge to do a BAFTA liveblog and every year I later come up with a reason why I can’t. This year, no such reasons were forthcoming, and I also realised I could really use...
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Rejoice! The BBFC haven’t taken a single scalping out of Maniac!
Against all odds, the British Board of Film Classification have seen sense and passed Maniac fully uncut at 18. Franck Khalfoun’s brutal POV slasher stars Elijah Wood (pictured above, looking...
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A Valentine’s Day love letter to the good people at Netflix, Inc.
I’m not one for brand loyalty. I’ve been stung far too many times not to realise that most of the products and services I enjoy mean more to me than I do to them. I’ll never forget the day that Sam...
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Overcoming cultural differences: the direct approach.
While fifty years of teen movies have effectively ensured that the entire Western world is now au fait with the idiosyncrasies of the American adolescent experience, the Brazilian distributor of 21...
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Watching Run For Your Wife with the senior citizens of N10
Despite my evident enthusiasm for the event, I’m ashamed to say that I wasn’t in attendance when Run For Your Wife inexplicably premiered at the 1683-seat Odeon Leicester Square earlier this month....
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Check out all the advertising Disney aren’t doing for Oz the Great and Powerful
Disney’s $200 million fantasy adventure Oz the Great and Powerful hits UK cinemas today, but you wouldn’t know it from the inexplicable dearth of advertising spend they’ve afforded the film outside of...
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