Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
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Ask any actor and they'll tell you that onscreen romantic scenes are not in any way sexy. After all, does dry-humping a colleague while being shouted at by a director sound fun to you? Don't forget that camera guy who is eating a sandwich in the background. Nonetheless, there must be…
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While the rest of the world is in the throes of a heatwave, it appears that Bruce Willis is already looking towards the winter. The actor, who portrayed Die Hard's reluctant hero, John McClane, has famously remained tight-lipped as to whether the seminal action flick can be considered a Christmas…
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If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the good old days of Sacha Baron Cohen, though you may not have realised it was him until a little while later. Whether you're familiar with Ali G talking smack to Victoria Beckham or with Borat putting Kazakhstan on the map in…
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With the last season of Game of Thrones still roughly a year away, all of us fans are left to hungrily follow any breadcrumbs that the stars give us - and that's exactly what us desperate lot have done, hanging onto every single word they throw our way. The latest clue…
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For the best part of a decade now, Game of Thrones has been ruining the lives of its fans with its constant plot twists, stress-inducing storylines, and apparent apathy towards the wellbeing of any of our favourite characters. Ned Stark, Hodor, Oberyn, Rickon, Ygritte - we watched them all meet…
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At just 28 years old, Margot Robbie already has an impressively illustrious acting career under her belt. In just the past few years, she starred as the Joker's twisted love interest, Harley Quinn, in Suicide Squad, as the real-life figure Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, and as Jane Clayton in…
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Last week Scarlett Johansson announced she would play a transgender man in the film Rub & Tug. The project tells the true story of Dante 'Tex' Grill, who was born a woman, as Jean Marie Gill. Gill was a larger-than-life figure who succeeded in Pittsburgh's massage parlor and prostitution business in the 1970's…
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In the nineties, there was not one teenage boy who did not watch, and then rewatch American Pie. Not only did its tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the realities of being an adolescent ring true for about every high schooler, but it was also just plain funny. It's now 19 years later, and…
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There was recently a significant controversy when Scarlett Johansson was cast in the role of Jean Marie Gill, better known by the name Dante 'Tex' Grill, in the Rupert Sanders-directed film Rub & Tug. First news outlet published the announcement of the casting like any other movie, but things soon changed…
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Reality shows are entertaining, but they aren't always "reality." Life doesn't naturally happen in a three-act structure, with a host, challenges and elimination rounds. People on reality shows are sculpted into characters through editing, with one aspect of their personality exploited. Also, producers on the sidelines remind contestants to speak…
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Many kids dream of being a superhero when they grow up. Unfortunately, no amount of money can make a crime-fighting bat work or build an Iron Man suit (believe it, Elon Musk has probably tried), and a radioactive spider bite will probably send you to the hospital rather than give you…
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Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to star in a film called Rub & Tug, playing a character based on real-life trans man, Dante "Tex" Gill. It will be directed by Rupert Sanders - the director behind Ghost in the Shell - a 2016 movie which incited vitriol for whitewashing the popular…
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Sacha Baron Cohen revealed he may be returning to the mockumentary format that made him famous. In 2000, the actor created the satirical TV series Da Ali G Show. Sacha interviewed real people while playing three unorthodox journalists: wannabe streetwise rapper Ali G; outrageous Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev; and flamboyantly…
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Though we may think that a lot of A-listers have an unreasonably cushy life considering they don't seem to actually do a whole lot, there are some actors out there who are incredibly good at their jobs. Just look at anyone who's won an academy award or even just given a…
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It's safe to say that the final instalment of Game of Thrones is probably one of the most hotly-anticipated seasons of television drama ever, and everyone I know is absolutely frothing at the mouth to find out what the ultimate fate of Westeros might be. Will Daenerys and Jon be able…
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Game of Thrones is coming to its end. Well, it will be soon - and by soon I mean in around eight or nine months. That's when we'll be seeing the final six episodes of the show, which are set to be extra-long and sure to be jam-packed with the…
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Has there ever been a fictional character hated as passionately as Jar-Jar Binks? For Star Wars fans around the globe, the CGI Gungan seemed to epitomise everything terrible about The Phantom Menace, and the vitriol directed at him was bitter and vocal. It seems like nobody (aside from very young…
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If I handed you a shower cap, a couple of foam swords, some nipple covers, a beauty blender and a condom, and told you to turn yourself into Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants, would you know what to do? I'll be the first to put my hands up and confess that…
