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FANTASY: Do you think actor Michael Cera has ever contemplated playing a character that is not a shy, awkward yet lovable geek? Me thinks not. But here's a few roles he should consider taking on to avoid that big black typecasting cloud hanging over his weird head ...

 
 

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Strong choice for Green Lantern villain

PREVIEW: While his name sounds like it could have top billing in a dodgy porn, theatre-trained Brit Mark Strong is cementing his status as the new Rutger Hauer ...

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Rodriguez into battle for bold new Predators

PREVIEW:You couldn't help but groan when the rumours started doing the rounds about 12 months ago that another Predator film was being prepared ...

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Year One a time
best forgotten

REVIEW: Michael Cera is not wholly and solely responsible for making the alleged comedy that is Year One a shitty experience, literally, but he doesn't help ...

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Send in the Clones - 12 Films About Cloning

LIST:They mightn't be as well-known as Dolly the sheep, but the movie industry has produced its own fair share of intriguingly cloned mammals over the years ...

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Sam plays it again ... and again on the moon

REVIEW: How many Sam Rock-wells does it take to make a good science-fiction film? Well, one would certainly be enough. With Moon we get two and its great ...

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Likable villain Butler lays down the law

REVIEW: After doing it's best to try and break them in all manner of ways some bordering on ridiculous, Law Abiding Citizen follows too many rules in the very end..

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Holmes sweet Holmes, despite dodgy accent

REVIEW: He's performed better than the last American actor to portray a British legend, but there is still a question mark over Robert Downey Jnr's Sherlock Holmes ...

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Whatever Happened to The Breakfast Club?

LIST: On February 7 it will be a full 25 years since The Breakfast Club had its premiere in Los Angeles. So what better time now to see how its members have turned out ...

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Avatar takes cinema into a new dimension

REVIEW: James Cameron has delved into the veritable treasure trove of science-fiction greats to help create his own masterpiece for a new generation ...

 
 
 

The Greatest & Ugliest Alien Creature Visitors

LIST: Forget those aliens that drop in on planet Earth - or come to invade it - looking like us. We want creativity in our ET visitors. Uglier the better ...

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Blomkamp's District 9 out of this world

REVIEW: District 9 is another fine example of taking a less than unique idea for a movie and presenting it on the big screen in an entirely unique way...

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Evolution of the
Movie Werewolf

LIST: When it comes to werewolves in film, we're about to go full circle. Paying homage to the original big-screen portrayals, The Wolfman is released in 2010...

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Titans to clash like never before in epic

PREVIEW: Perseus has certainly come a long way. The character looks to have turned majorly bad-ass just as the Clash of the Titans remake he appears in does...

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Rare horror treat finally surfaces

REVIEW: For all the crap churned out by Hollywood, it makes you wonder why a clever little horror film like Trick 'r Treat is left on the studio shelf for almost two years...

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Worth a ride on the Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train Review

REVIEW: Clive Barker hasn’t enjoyed a hell of a lot of success in recent times when it comes to how his stories have been adapted for the screen. This one is okay...

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Alternative superhero movies that kick-ass

LIST: With the upcoming Kick-Ass in mind, Rogue Joker looks at past left-of-centre superhero movies that have done their own ass-kicking on the big-screen...

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Alternative superhero promises to kick-ass

Kick-Ass

PREVIEW: You know it's going to be something different when Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar get-together for a film. In this case it's a Kick-Ass offering...

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7 Stephen King
Movie Mash-ups

FANTASY: We've had Monsters v Aliens, Alien v Predator, Freddy v Jason, The People v Larry Flynt. It's time to bring together the horror author's best ...

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Dominik's vision for Jesse alive and well

REVIEW: Thank God for the test audience. If not for them we may never have seen just how brilliant The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford truly is

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Wanted a fun action movie and got one

REVIEW: What would The Matrix be if you replaced Laurence Fishburne with Morgan Freeman and killer machines with daddy abandonment issues? ...

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Abram's Enterprise bargaining pays off

REVIEW: I've always been in the Star Wars camp when it came to picking sci-fi sides. But, having watched the new Star Trek film, I’m thinking of swapping teams ...

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15 Lamest Superhero Movies of All-Time

The 15 Lamest Superhero Movies of All-time

LISTS: Batman can vouch for the fact the superhero has had a rough time on film. In fact, they have more often than not gone wrong. Batman and Robin wrong ...

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Snyder delivers super Watchmen effort

REVIEW: Watchmen the movie got me into graphic novels - two and a half years before I even saw the thing. Director Zack Snyder's film doesn't disappoint ...

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37 Vampire Films
That Really Do Suck

LISTS: The vampire movie genre is harder to kill than the bloodsuckers themselves. But, by god, many films featuring the creatures of the night have tried ...

 

     
       
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