Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
Reviews, premieres, and the latest on screen entertainment.
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For the last six months or so, the news has been awash with allegations and recollections of abuse in Hollywood. It all started with Harvey Weinstein, who was accused by upwards of 80 women of some sort of sexual harassment or untoward behavior, and the finger-pointing snowballed from there. Most…
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Imagine becoming a household name overnight. One minute you're sitting there, living your normal workaday existence - and suddenly you're projected to worldwide stardom. While of course, fame comes with some pretty sizeable perks, there are also some massive negatives to having your face on billboards and your name plastered…
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The gender roles that have been prescribed to us by society have formed an integral part of our identities for far too long. And the entertainment industry can undoubtedly be viewed as a smokescreen from which we can see our everyday woes play out. In 2017, a study was published…
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Red Sparrow has barely been in theatres for a week and it's already made a number of headlines - though most of those have been down to Jennifer Lawrence. In the film, the 27-year-old actress plays Dominika Egorova, a Russian "Red Sparrow" who is tasked to use her body as a…
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Taylor Hickson, the 20-year-old actress who starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool, is reportedly suing a production company after she received a gruesome injury while filming the movie Ghostland. Hickson, who was 19 at the time of the incident, suffered horrific cuts after she crashed through a glass door while…
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There are certain movies and TV shows from your youth that, whether you still watch them or not, have a place in your heart. So it can be difficult to look back on them and see how outdated they are, or notice that they contain a ton of weird undercurrents…
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In the 2000's, The Lonely Island - comprised of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone - produced some of the funniest content on Saturday Night Live. Their digital shorts were weird, silly and consistently great. But the music videos really stood out - Lazy Sunday, D--k In A Box,…
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Last Sunday saw the Oscars roll into town and with it came all the glitz, glamour, gossip and political statements that you would expect. While this year's ceremony wasn't anywhere near as headline-grabbing as the Golden Globes or the BAFTA's, there were some things that got people talking - mainly two…
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The Oscars this year had a few unusual entries. For the most part, awards ceremonies like this are full of 'Oscar-bait', with dramas that tick certain boxes always finding their way into the list of nominations. Yet this year has seen a lot of oft-neglected movies making their way into…
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Last year there was one of the biggest snafus in Oscars history. Thanks to an envelope mix-up, the Academy Award For Best Picture was mistakenly given to La La Land instead of Moonlight. The cast and crew of La La Land took the stage in triumph, only for a producer…
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When the American version of The Office came out, critics were skeptical it could capture the brilliance of the original British series. Well, that didn't last long. That's what she said. The U.S. Office quickly became its own brilliant show, with its own unique tone, using the longer episode count…
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Everybody knows The Simpsons. The animated series has aired for 29 seasons, producing an incredible 629 episodes. (And I can't even count how many jobs Homer's had.) It's the longest-running American sitcom, and shows no sign of stopping. When the show started, I was close to Lisa's age (Woo-hoo!). Now…
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Love Actually is one of those movies that pretty much everyone loves. It's a Christmas tradition for many families to gather around and watch it every year, and it works just as well for Valentine's Day. With its mix of comedic skits, hard-hitting drama and romantic sentimentality, you would think…
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As somebody who neither watched or liked Friends, I have always been against the idea of a Friends reunion. For people like myself - who are not fans of the show - the idea of a reunion would only bring about social exclusion. Imagine every conversation in the office, pub,…
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While movie making has come on leaps and bounds since the first cinematic enterprises began in Hollywood, some things never change. The femme fatale is a stock character that underpins some of the best movies ever made. It doesn't matter whether you're a fan of James Bond or film noir,…
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When American Pie first hit the big screens in 1999, it seemed to trigger a whole new genre of movies aimed specifically at teenage boys. The likes of Road Trip, Sex Drive, Harold and Kumar and Dude, Where's My Car? all followed suit, with the humour focusing on sexual embarrassment…
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It's hard to imagine what it would have been like to be one of the victims of the 2014 leaks, in which nearly 500 private photos of celebrities were hacked from their supposedly secure storage on the cloud and posted online for all to see. Eventually, the culprit was caught…
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Reality TV has never been the most moral of pursuits. From using extensive plastic surgery to transform a group of "ugly" women to convincing people they were fighting for the affections of a fake prince, producers must think about ratings rather than morals. The Push, which is designed to explore how social pressures and…
