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This lame Bridesmaids rip-off is going to be *scary* awful.
Those who predicted that Bridesmaids would herald a new dawn for female-focused mainstream comedies have been sadly disappointed in the intervening years, as audiences have instead been treated to a...
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My e-mails with Deirdre: a glimpse inside the bungling underbelly of the PR...
There’s a lot of unnecessary antipathy between journalists and PRs (publicity wiz Georgie Hobbs and I recorded a podcast on the subject last summer) and if you ask me, you can trace most of it back to...
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My ten favourite promotional images from The Christmas Candle’s Facebook page
As regular readers will already know, I am extremely excited about the forthcoming Bible-bashing yuletide epic The Christmas Candle. For nearly three months now, I’ve been keeping abreast of...
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Paul Walker, 1973-2013
Much to my detriment, I’ve never seen a single film in Universal’s (The) Fast (and / the) Furious franchise, but over the last twelve months I have seen most of the other films listed on the resume of...
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I’m so excited to see how Justin Bieber’s new movie explains this footage of...
Fawning, puff-piece pop star documentaries like Justin Bieber’s Believe (by the way Justin, ‘believe’ called, it wants its status as a verb back) rarely touch on the more troubled aspects of their...
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Here’s the first poster for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and the poster...
The ape is a bit bigger on the new one.
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A festive afternoon with Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Earlier this week, under cover of mild fog, I took the tube down to the Curzon Soho in Central London for a very special event, scheduled to begin at midday and run on until the streets outside would...
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Netflix need to lose the star ratings and embrace the chaos
I’ve just about tuckered myself out going on and on and on in praise of Netflix. Safe to say, I think it’s a brilliant service. Nonetheless, there are a few niggling oddities in the system — mostly...
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Bizarre fact for a Tuesday morning
It’s a little-known fact that Ron Reagan, son of 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan, had a small role in the film Soul Man (in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to qualify for a...
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Here are this year’s BAFTA nominations, beneath five paragraphs of arbitrary...
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The mysterious case of Blood Glacier, a.k.a. The Station
At the beginning of the year, I took over the Guardian Guide’s home entertainment column. After half a decade of covering only theatrical titles, my letterbox is now laden on the regs with forthcoming...
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How to review movies you haven’t seen (and get away with it) in 2014
Every now and then I’ll write something about a film — either for this blog or another outlet — that isn’t true. This is usually down to a lapse of concentration on my part, rather than anything...
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THERE IS NO GOD
I’m going to Los Angeles next month. I’ll be there for a week. I return home on February 15th. The following announcement was made this morning: “On February 20th, Arclight Hollywood will play host to...
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Roger Ebert deemed too grumpy for ‘Life Itself’ movie poster
Here’s an archive photograph of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, taken to promote their long-running TV show At The Movies. And here’s the new poster for Life Itself, a documentary about Ebert from Hoop...
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Has it really been 20 years since the release of Forrest Gump?
In his 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, Albert Einstein posited the theory of special relativity, which sought to explain the relationship between space and time. Three years...
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Can you imagine suing Seth MacFarlane for stealing one of your ideas? That’s like punching someone in the face for copping to your murder charge. Well, that’s exactly what Bengal Mangle Productions...
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Distributors hate him! Learn these 10 weird tricks to self-releasing a film...
You may have noticed I haven’t been around ‘these parts’ much lately. That’s because for the past few months I’ve been working with a small team to self-distribute Beyond Clueless — an essay film about...
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So, what was Ultra Culture?
Hello! My name’s Charlie Lyne and from 2008 to 2014, I was the sole author — despite my use of an affected editorial ‘we’ for much of that time — of Ultra Culture, a moderately popular British film...
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