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Feeling a million years old at the London YouTube Space 20 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
Odd as it seems, I don’t think I’ve ever really understood YouTube. Actually, let me rephrase that: I’ve never really understood the YouTube community. Sure, I can hit play on an embedded Thor 2 trai...
Explain this one, atheists: EuroTrip coming to Blu-ray on December 3rd 13 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
I don’t think it would be boastful or misleading to say that I’ve done more to further the cause of the 2004 teen sex comedy EuroTrip than any other human being living or dead, and that includes the f...
A memo to Jeanne McCarthy, casting director on the upcoming Vince Vaughn movie Delivery Man 1 Aug 2013 | 03:17 pm
This is Jack Reynor, from What Richard Did. This is Chris Pratt, from Parks and Recreation. These two men look alike. Here they are looking alike, in Delivery Man. In fact, they look so alike that...
If we want documentaries to get better, we need to stop giving them a free pass 25 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
You might remember a little over a month ago when I returned from Sheffield Doc/Fest and wrote this piece arguing that documentary filmmaking was in a bit of a rut. Well, along with everything else I ...
First they came for the rape simulations… 23 Jul 2013 | 03:42 pm
One of the most reassuring aspects of the British Board of Film Classification has always been its limited remit. The fact that the board’s control extends only as far as the cinema, the video shop an...
We the undersigned do solemnly swear that we will do everything within our power to raise Pain & Gain’s Rotten Tomatoes score above 60% 16 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
A year and a half ago, Kenneth Lonergan’s masterful Margaret was rescued from obscurity after British critics turned their backs on their mostly apathetic US colleagues and took the film under their w...
7 things I learned by reading the BBFC’s annual report this morning 12 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
Each summer, the good (and incomparably whimsical) people over at the British Board of Film Certification release their annual report, a 100-page document outlining their ongoing struggle to cope with...
Let’s take a look at the level of pun on display in these ‘Planes’ character posters 10 Jul 2013 | 02:52 pm
Has it really been two years since Cars 2 exploded onto our screens in a blaze of critical apathy? If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the intervening 24 months longing for a return to ‘the world...
This new poster for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake gets sillier the more of it you take in 9 Jul 2013 | 03:51 pm
First impressions: It’s a pretty strong tagline, especially held up against the one that accompanied the 2003 South Korean original — ’15 years forced in a cell, only 5 days given to seek revenge’ — w...
Five things it would be nice to see in a movie like Pacific Rim 8 Jul 2013 | 07:36 pm
A joke. There was a single moment of laughter during the screening of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim I attended last Friday, and that came with the introduction of a character played by Ron Perlman...
