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Here’s a teaser for The Bling Ring, with a really nice title treatment
I’m a firm believer in the notion that a film’s quality can usually be divined from the amazingness of its title treatment, which bodes well for Sofia Coppola’s forthcoming teen rebellion epic The...
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Exclusive: here’s the UK poster for Simon Killer, starring Brady Corbet
The concept of an ‘online exclusive’ is a funny one. In the old days, if, say, Empire Magazine got an exclusive still from Batman & Robin, it would probably take Total Film a good day or two to...
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Anyone for a game of Sandler James Rock Spade?
With a comedy titan like Adam ‘$2.2 billion lifetime gross’ Sandler on board, you can hardly blame the team behind Growns Ups 2 for wanting to go surnames-only on this new teaser poster. Unfortunately...
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Finding just the right word to describe Identity Thief
Hollywood comedy is in a really weird place at the moment. In the absence of any emergent young leads, its casting patterns have stalled in an area of identikit 40-something white men, and despite a...
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Last Friday’s Ultra Culture Cinema screening of Spring Breakers, featuring the loudest sound-system the film will ever be played on and more drunk Harmony Korine fans than a Vice Magazine launch, was...
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There are some female characters in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
Well, two. The more narratively significant of the pair, as played by Friday Night Lights‘s Adrianne Palicki, is a military operative by the name of Lady Jaye. Now, give that a moment to sink in. The...
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Flaming money falling from a helicopter: thoughts and feelings on movies like...
You know when you spend a fair bit of time with someone and you start to realise that they’ve got quite a lot more money than you have? Not because they flaunt it necessarily, but because they’re...
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Super-psyched for this one!
The biggest circle-jerk ever committed to celluloid hits cinemas this summer.
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So the Queen, George Lucas and I walk into a castle…
Yesterday afternoon I got the 16:32 train from Vauxhall to Windsor & Eton Riverside in order to attend ‘a Reception to be given at Windsor Castle by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh for the...
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Win a Ryan Gosling cosplay kit! No, seriously.
Okay, so it’s less a Ryan Gosling cosplay kit and more a Ryan Gosling’s character in The Place Beyond The Pines cosplay kit, but still, if you want to look like this… … then do I have the competition...
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A structural analysis of this new poster for The Hangover Part III
There’s been a lot said about the apparent half-arsedness of Warner Brothers’ marketing campaign for their big summer hope-pinner The Hangover Part III, which has so far consisted of a series of...
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A closer look at the best / only joke in the Grown Ups 2 trailer
The first thirty seconds of a comedy trailer are absolutely crucial. If a killer gag doesn’t grab the audience within that first half-minute, many viewers are liable to switch off, either...
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Zach Braff wants you to give him $2 million, or a quarter of what he made on...
Earlier this year, I raised £12k on Kickstarter to fund my first feature film. I was completely blown away by the whole process, and instantly turned into into the sort of insufferable bastard who...
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Okay, so Melissa Joan Hart also wants $2 million, and if you ask me she...
In a clear sign that Hollywood has finished eating itself and is now starting to retch up some of the less digestible chunks, Melissa Joan Hart has today joined Zach Braff in appealing to the world’s...
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When in doubt, stick an arbitrary number on the end of the title.
(2012) (2013) The straight-to-DVD Mischa Barton vehicle Apartment 1303 hits UK stores on June 3rd, and will look great alongside last year’s Spanish horror import Apartment 143 on your shelf — with or...
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The best use of parentheses on a poster for a Danish sex epic you’ll see this...
The first half of Lars von Trier’s impossibly exciting two-part sex odyssey Nymphomanic, starring — amongst others — Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, Kate Ashfield, Willem...
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I’ve come up with a few names for future Tom Hanks characters
By now, we’re all pretty much up to speed with the fact that Tom Hanks is a nice man, which is perhaps why he rarely attempts to convince us otherwise on screen. In Captain Phillips, as in so many...
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I’m covering the Cannes Film Festival via the medium of Snapchat. Obviously.
When it comes to social networking, I pride myself on remaining at the forefront of progress. At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, I documented my time spent queueing in the rain for Romanian arthouse...
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The ten most selfless acts committed by the protagonist of Fruitvale Station
A Grand Jury Prize winner earlier this year at Sundance, Fruitvale Station sees Ultra Culture favourite Michael B. Jordan (Steve from Chronicle, Wallace from The Wire) play Oscar Grant, a young...
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The Bling Ring is the self-reflexive clusterfuck Sofia Coppola was born to make
There’s a lot of fuss made over films that manage to ‘get inside the mind of a criminal’, as though the average cinemagoer might be so unimpeachably ethical that only a storyteller of the highest...
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