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Hit Stop: We Still Kill The Old Way

12/22/2014

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by Cookie N Screen

Gritty crime movies have been the diet of the British film industry since they gave cockneys guns. The idea that the streets of London are teaming with different mafia type gangs and people with debts that they’d pay off with stone slippers and a Chelsea grin has filled our television screens with varying levels of success. For every Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels, there is a Rock N Rolla (Guy Ritchie also provides varying levels of success). They’ll never stop churning out these films that sometimes feel like Eastenders just on bigger budget. Which is exactly how the grim We Still Kill the Old Way feels, expect with more red stuff and gore. 


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Hit Play: Dumb and Dumber

12/19/2014

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by Robbie Jones 

Jim Carrey is one of the best and most iconic comedic performers in film, and has showered us with many great comedies over the years. But it was in the year 1994 that his career shot up like a rocket. In February, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was released. It garnered mixed reviews, but nowadays is considered his most iconic character. Then, we had The Mask, a wacky film about a down on his luck banker who discovers a powerful mask that turns him into a magically powered trickster. Finally, at the end of the year, Jim starred in Dumb and Dumber, a buddy road movie featuring him and Jeff Daniels. At the time, it was an odd combination but it worked so well, and the duo are back 20 years later to do it all again in Dumb and Dumber To (A title that is only genius when it’s being read. It just sounds normal when you say it). It’s out today, so let’s take a look back at what is definitely one of Carrey’s best comedies to date.


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Hit Play: The Killers

12/10/2014

 
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 by Cookie N Screen

Film noir is one of the greatest genres if done well. The smokey detective stories that are stylish, flirtatious and cynical, with a puff of criminality in the shape of curves and femme fatales. Though they have been adapted in modern culture with films such as Brick or Memento, the term is often related to the black and white films of the 1940s and 1950s. There is a whole heap of films that work around film noir: The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard and Strangers on a Train to name but a few. But one of the most alluring pieces of films noir is Robert Siodmak’s The Killers. 


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Hit Play: The Expendables 3

12/8/2014

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by Robbie Jones

Action films are an absolute blessing, and they’re quite diverse; there’s smart action films, there’s stupid action films, there’s slow action films, there’s fast action films, there’s good action, there’s bad action films and finally, there are ‘So bad it’s good’ action films. A lot of films from the 80s fall under that last category, but they are just so damn enjoyable. So it was exciting news in 2010 when we heard that there was a going to be a film that brings together all the old action stars of the 80's and some of the modern heroes we see today for a big action romp under the direction of Sylvester Stallone.



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Hit Play: Juno

12/5/2014

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by Cookie N Screen

Everyone is bounding around the idea that Jason Reitman has had a few flips and flops and is running out of steam. Especially because Men, Women And Children, has already had a sharp intake of critical breath as it lands into cinemas today.  But when you look at his body of work, you can't help admire it. Up In The Air, Thank You For Smoking, Young Adult - they are all good, if not great, pieces of work. 

But his shining moment is Juno 


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Hit Play: The Inbetweeners 2

12/1/2014

 
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by Liam McMillen

In the last few years, British TV has had a big influence on British cinema. Within a matter of months, we’ve had The Harry Hill Movie, Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie and Pudsey the Dog: The Movie. These three films started because of the massive success of The Inbetweeners Movie, a film that surprised critics and audiences alike with its massive success. Its sequel, The Inbetweeners 2, pushes the latter films aside and shows that its predecessor wasn’t a fluke.


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