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FrightFest and the future of horror
This year’s FrightFest proved the horror genre is in damn rude health. Perhaps more than any other, horror is a genre that inspires devotion. It’s got a certain kind of appeal: the perverse thrill of...
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Michael Bay’s Pain is our gain
Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain suggests the director has been suppressing his directorial attributes for years. With his latest film, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay decided to take a step back from robots...
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Can the teen supernatural genre be saved?
Mortal Instruments is the latest young-adult flop – if only it’d taken inspiration from teen movies of old. Like it or not, Twilight and its three sequels were definitely a thing. With the blithe...
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2013 may be the year the superhero bubble bursts
With The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers as the peak, the end may already be nigh for superhero movies. Recently, it was announced that Ben Affleck is to portray the new Batman in Zack Snyder’s...
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Five ‘true story’ films that are complete lies
Ben Affleck and Ridley Scott lied to us all. Michael Bay’s latest, Pain & Gain, is the supposed true story of the Sun Gym gang, a Miami bodybuilding crew which involved itself in the kidnapping,...
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The Way, Way Back is the antidote to summer overload
Coming-of-age drama The Way, Way Back is a perfect alternative to 2013′s explodey Hollywood summer. This summer has seen the release of some pretty big films – Elysium, Man of Steel, World War Z, Pain...
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Don Bluth and the hand-drawn animation renaissance
A return to hand-drawn animation could snap Pixar and Dreamworks out of their creative funk. Next year, Dreamworks Animation will release a film called Mr Peabody & Sherman. I apologise now to the...
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As a new age dawns, film criticism cannot afford to lose influence
Following Philip French’s retirement and Roger Ebert’s death, professional film criticism needs to fortify itself. At the weekend, Philip French, long time film fellow at The Observer, put an end to...
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The rise of Peter Dinklage
Johnny Depp. Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Dinklage? How the Game of Thrones star has defied expectations for dwarf actors. List your five favourite actors, and the likelihood is that it will consist of the...
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Why does Hollywood support Roman Polanski?
The Polanski sex abuse case was never straightforward, so how does he have the unshakeable trust of Hollywood’s most powerful? In 2009, Hollywood’s biggest swinging dicks rallied together to sign a...
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