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Shame

Raw, emotional, stylish art house flick that's surprisingly slight and pretty depressing. Good OST.


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12th Nov 2013

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The 100 Best 100 Best Lists Of All Time

1. The 100 Greatest Singers
2. The 100 Greatest Music Videos
3. The 100 Greatest Novels Of All Time
4. 100 Best TV Shows Of All Time
5. The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time
6. The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
7. The 100 Greatest Movie Characters
8. The All-Time 100 Greatest Toys
9. 100 Greatest Shut-Ups In Films
10. The 100 Best TV Shows For Men
11. 100 Greatest First Lines In Books
12. 100 Greatest Director Cameos
13. Top 100 Movies of All Time
14. 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
15. Top 100 Comic Book Villains
16. 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time
17. 100 Best Apps For iPhone and Android
18. 100 Greatest Songs Of The 00s
19. 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time
20. 100 Best Graphic Novels And Comics
21. 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs
22. Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009
23. Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Movies
24. 100 Greatest Album Covers
25. Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time
26. 100 Greatest Punk Rock Songs
27. Top 100 Special Interest Movies
28. The 100 Greatest Movie Spaceships Of All Time
29. 100 Greatest Shoegaze Albums
30. Top 100 Comic Book Heroes
31. 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time
32. Top 100 Hotels & Restaurants In The World
33. 100 Best Graphic Novels Ever
34. The Best 100 Closing Lines From Books
35. The 100 Best Running Sneakers Of All Time
36. The 100 Greatest Drummers Of Alternative Music
37. 100 Greatest Television Episodes
38. The 100 Best Sneakers
39. 100 Greatest Movie Posters Of Film Noir
40. Top 100 Games Of All Time
41. The 100 Greatest Mash-Ups Of All Time
42. Top 100 Television Movies
43. The 100 Greatest Detroit Songs Ever
44. The First 100 Shoes To Cross The NYC Marathon Finish Line
45. 100 Greatest Wrestlers of The 90s
46. 101 Best Written TV Series
47. Top 100 Art House & International Movies
48. Top 100 Trailers
49. The 100 Best Games Of All Time
50, The Top 100 Global Brands
51. Top 100 Works In World Literature
52. 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
53. Top 100 Books
54. All-Time 100 Best TV Shows
55. America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
56. 100 Greatest Drum Beats of All Time
57. The 100 Best Horror Films
58. Top 100 Most Popular Modern Pinball Machines
59. 100 Best Villains In Video Games
60. 100 Greatest Graphic Novels
61. Top 100 Animation Movies
62. Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time
63. The 100 Most Iconic T-Shirts Of All Time
64. World's Best Top 100 Bars
65. All-Time Best 100 Albums
66. 100 Best Movie Soundtracks
67. 101 Best Stomp Boxes
68. Top 100 DJs
69. 100 TV Shows That Defined The Decade
70. The 100 Greatest American Novels 1893-1993
71. Top 100 ESA/Hubble Images 
72. The 100 Favourite Novels of Librarians
73. 100 Greatest Cartoons
74. Talib Kweli's Top 100 Hip Hop Songs
75. 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time
76. The Greatest 100 Movies Ever
77. Top 100 TV Drama Series
78. All-Time 100 Gadgets
79. Top 100 Albums Of The 1990s
80. Top 100 Indie Love Songs Of All Time
81. The 100 Best T-Shirts Of The 2000s
82. 100 Best Novels of The 20th Century
83. 100 Best Movie Quotes
84. 100 Best Singles Of All Time
85. 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time
86. 100 Best British Films
87. The 100 Best Eminem Songs Of All Time
88. The 100 Most Begun "Read But Unfinished" Books
89. The 100 Most Important Art Works of the Twentieth Century
90. 100 Major Works of Modern Creative Nonfiction
91. 100 Pop Culture Things That Make You Millenial
92. The 100 Greatest Entrance Themes in Wrestling History
93. The 100 Greatest Movie Soundtracks
94. Top 100 Richest People in The World
95. Top 100 Prime Numbers
96. Top 100 Most Valuable Records Of All Time
97. 100 Most Controversial Films Of All Time
98. 100 Best Opening Lines From Films
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100. The Hundred Best Lists Of All Time

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Trailer Park: Tuff Turf

"They can't shut him down. And they can't cool him off." Got a solid 1.5 stars in 1985 from Roger Ebert, who noted 

"Tuff Turf" is the worst teenage exploitation movie since "Where the Boys Are". It even has an equally wimpy hero, a young actor named James Spader who seems so laid back and introspective and sensitive and zonked that it is occasionally all he can to do rouse himself to the level of speech.

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End of Watch

Witty, tense, effective police procedural, despite the contrived hidden cameras. Heat meets Blair Witch.


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3rd Nov 2013

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Side Effects

Taught, surprisingly Hitchcockian thriller, that makes for a great final film from Steven Soderbergh.


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2nd Nov 2013

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Seven Psychopaths

A snappy script and a great ensemble cast make this an entertaining romp.


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1st Nov 2013

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Trailer Park: Bear Island

Extreme snowboarding/surfing/ice fishing/sledging arctic expedition.

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Gravity

Bullock & Clooney float in space. 3D pushed to the limit, breathless tension, great shots. A proper cinema film.


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31st Oct 2013

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Trailer Park: X-Men Days of Future Past

The X-men get into flares and kipper ties for next summer's time-travelling mash-up. The always epic Thin Red Line score gives the trailer some gravitas.

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Gangster Squad

Clumsy 1D actioner that has its moments. The subtlety of LA Confidential is a distant memory.


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27th Oct 2013

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Friends With Kids

I'm still not sure if I'd seen this text book romcom before. Don Draper disappoints.


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26th Oct 2013

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Dry 70s reboot, bogged down in impressionism and art direction at the expense of drama.


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25th Oct 2013

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Trailer Park: Captain America - The Winter Soldier

More comic book nonsense from Marvel. Looks fine, but surely they're going to run out of steam sometime...

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Dead Presidents

Prototype Hughes Brothers pic that fares surprisingly well in the post-VHS era ...until the 80m mark.


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24th Oct 2013

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Trailer Park: The Grand Budapest Hotel

New Wes Anderson film - complete with new font.

Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Léa Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and introducing Tony Revolori.

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Argo

Deftly handled period thriller, anchored by a solid script and a wide range of decent performances.


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19th Oct 2013

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Alex Cross

Dismal cop movie. Weak script, poor direction, bad casting and shocking acting. I couldn't stop watching.


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13th Oct 2013

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The Great Passage

Warm oddball epic about a 15 year quest to produce a new dictionary. Japan's Oscar entry - good bet.


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12th Oct 2013

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Django Unchained

Too long as usual, but relative restraint from Tarantino makes for his best pic since Jackie Brown.


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11th Oct 2013

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25th Hour

Classy love letter to NYC from Spike Lee, with a great script and a rare, restrained turn from Ed Norton.


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10th Oct 2013

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My Brother The Devil

You've seen this urban gang tale a thousand times. Decent direction brings a whiff of freshness.


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10th Oct 2013

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Flight

Pretty standard Denzel pic, as his sozzled pilot tries to do the right thing. Zemeckis plays it safe.


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9th Oct 2013

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Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett's delusional socialite is one of Woody Allen's best character studies for years.


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7th Oct 2013

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Trailer Park: Godzilla

Add the Mothra twins and we're in.

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Trailer Park: American Hustle

David O Russell is raiding the 70s dressing up box for his new art heist con man thriller.

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Flight

Denzel Washington booze-hound pilot plane crash drama. Good take off, bumpy ride, lands in routine territory.


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3rd Oct 2013

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The Master

Sumptuous, laborious epic. Someone needs to show this guy how to edit.


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3rd Oct 2013

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Lucasfilm on the future of film making

Do not adjust your set, this is not an Onion spoof. Can't wait for Episode VII!

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All Your Ships Are Us

#Nerdvana: Dirk Loechel has worked out the relative sizes of pretty much every sci-fi spacecraft ever, and compiled them in one handy diagram - here's the Death Star-sized version

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Skate or Die: Fallen Footwear

Loving this. Koyaanisqatsi meets Welcome to Hell with @jamiethomas and the heavy beards of @fallenfootwear. "Road Less Travelled" is online in chunks at @transworldskate, or get the whole thing on iTunes.

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Tyrannosaur

Depressing, traumatic drama from Yorkshire, with good performances and the tiniest glimmer of hope.


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25th Sep 2013

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Trouble With The Curve

Solid grumpy old baseball scout turn from Clint that pitches itself as the anti-Moneyball.


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21st Sep 2013

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Silver Linings Playbook

Assured, energetic dramedy with a good post-Bulwinkle turn from DeNiro amongst others.


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21st Sep 2013

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Shifty

Shoddy, uninspired and underwhelming Brit indie flick.


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21st Sep 2013

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Promo Promo: Pearl Jam

Via @coslive. "It’s easy to picture Friday Night Lights hero Tim Riggins cruising around Dillon, TX with this one blaring from his truck."

Another single of the forthcoming Pearl Jam album Lightning Bolt. They're getting more and more like the 90s band people think they are.

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The Searchers

Stagey, studio John Wayne western that falls short of its ominous classic reputation.

Halliwell says: Desultory, easy-going, good-looking western in typical Ford style; a bit more solemn than usual.**


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20th Sep 2013

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Trailer Park: Last Days On Mars

In space, everyone can hear Ray Donovan mutter under his breath.

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Trailer Park: Escape From Tomorrow

Looks like this wacked-out indie film shot illicitly on location at Disney World will be getting a release after all... 

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Trailer Park: Sample This

Jam on it! J-J-Jam on it! Documentary looking at the influence of the Incredible Bongo Band's classic version of Apache on hip hop.

SAMPLE THIS is the true story of how unknown music producer Michael Viner brought together the greatest studio musicians of the 1970's to create an album that ultimately went nowhere…until the summer of 1973, when DJ Herc took the percussion breaks from that obscure album and extended them by playing them back to back. His beats became an anthem on the streets of the Bronx and ultimately the genre of Hip Hop, becoming one of the most sampled tracks in history and used by artists from Will Smith and Missy Elliott to Amy Winehouse and Jay-Z.

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Trailer Park: The Double

It's Jesse Eisenberg x 2 in this drama from The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade. Premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival 

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The Rebound

CZJ and the guy from The Hangover stay safely between the lines in this predictable rom com.


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31st Aug 2013

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Down Terrace

Suburban crime drama that strays a little too close to 'Stella Street'.


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28th Aug 2013

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The Hunger Games

A generally satisfying mashup of Running Man, Battle Royale and X Factor that lacks a bit of spice.


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28th Aug 2013

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Upstream Color

Spellbinding, hypnotic indie sci-fi. A hugely individual vision, masterfully assembled.


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25th Aug 2013

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Elysium

Human USB stick Matt Damon tries to reach Jodie Foster's satellite paradise with routine shoot-out results.


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25th Aug 2013

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Celeste & Jesse Forever

Stylish, grown up, indie rom com - with a decent script and one foot in the real world.


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25th Aug 2013

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