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What a week for DC. With the first full trailer for 2016’s Batman v Superman dropping only days ago, we now have our first official look at the Suicide Squad, much to Marvel’s displeasure. Instead of a film based around heroes, Suicide Squad looks to bid ‘bad vs evil’ in...
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In October 1888, Louis Le Prince shot a 2.11 second sequence titled Roundhay Garden Scene followed by the faintly longer Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge. In 2015, David Nicholas Wilkinson’s basis for his 32 year documentary project, The First Film, is to prove these were the earliest motion pictures in...
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Sometimes, you just need to feel like there is some good in the world, and that there is a way to help people. The Blind Side is a film which encapsulates this, despite, or possibly because of its Hollywood spin. The film is based loosely around the story of...
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John Cusack and Paul Dano play Brian Wilson in two separate chapters in the turbulent life of the Beach Boys front-man. The two time-lines are interspersed throughout, and combine to form an unconventional yet altogether exceptional biopic. Director Bill Pohlad eschews the usual linear narratives reserved for films such...
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Three series of this BBC comedy obviously weren’t enough for Jack Whitehall, as the ‘posh boy comic’ reprises his role as useless teacher, Alfie Wickers, in The Bad Education Movie. Joined by series regulars Matthew Horne as Fraser, headmaster of bantercademy and Sarah Solemani as Alfie’s crush Rosie, many...
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The fact that you know how the story will end gives Amy a sense of foreboding, which amplifies as the documentary develops. The film is entirely told through the use of existing footage – much of it previously unseen – and interviews with the most important people surrounding Winehouse...
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*Season Spoilers Ahead* Coming off an incredible first season that was followed by an explosive second season, expectations were high for Arrow Season 3. Episodes one to nine felt up to standard, concluding with the best mid-season finale the show has produced yet. But the episodes that came in the second...