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  • Cheat Sheet: Brad Bird

    He’s been the driving force behind some of the most elegant and successful animated films of all time, he’s won two Oscars in four years, and now he’s taking over the Mission: Impossible franchise from J.J. Abrams. Who is this miracle man (don’t be misled by his surname, sexist 1970s chaps, he is indeed a man)? Read on!



  • Friday Drinking Game #14 – X-Men

    To celebrate the triumphant release of X-Men: First Class, we’ve decided to get extravagantly trolleyed and pretend we can manipulate magnetic fields. What? Don’t tell us you’ve never tied a fork to your wrist with thread and then pretended to fling it across the room using your mind! Or is that genuinely just us? Whoops…



  • Viva Riva!

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a Grand Theft Auto game done with real actors and a tiny effects budget? Then look no further! Blood, Breasts and Stock Characters in Africa: or, Viva Riva!, the first full-length feature film to make it from the Congo to the US, could scarcely be a more crude and depressing reflection of the worst and most pointless aspects of Hollywood. For shame.