Surreal Moments On Film
ShortList has taken a surreal turn this week. Not only is our latest issue dedicated to this most mind-bending and discursive of aesthetical, philosophical and political theories – including…
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Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds
"Cream-crackered!” yells Denzel Washington. The actor’s expressing his feelings after he and co-star Ryan Reynolds have met a long line of journalists for their new film, Safe House.…
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The Amazing Spider-Man trailer
While living in the present is great and all that, thanks to being raised on a diet of Tomorrow's World and posssessing little to no patience, we're always looking to the future.
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Daniel Radcliffe Video Exclusive
Daniel Radcliffe is an articulate fellow. We're sure you'll agree with us once you've clicked on the link above. And while that statement isn't especially shocking, we bet, after watching our…
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Nicolas Winding Refn
“I’m just so sick of talking about Drive,” says an exasperated Nicolas Winding Refn. As opening interview exchanges go, it’s far from ideal. But, given its ubiquity, you can…
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Scorsese goes 3D
Martin Scorsese is not a name you’d associate with 3D family films. But, as he tells Andrew Dickens, he’s been waiting his whole career to make one.
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Eddie Redmayne
Having starred opposite Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn, wowed the West End in Richard II and rolled around with British model Cara Delevingne for a Burberry campaign in recent months,…
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The Golden Globes 2012: best moments
It was the night that Hollywood was both excited and nervous about. Excited as it meant a good evening of back-slapping and award-giving and nervous because Ricky Gervais was hosting.
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Alternative Ferris Bueller posters
Who, at some point, during their teenage existence didn’t have a Ferris Bueller moment? A burning desire to escape from the precipice of adulthood and take it easy? Even into the gaping chasm…
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Alternative Hitchcock posters
Despite Saul Bass’ pivotal artwork for Vertigo, most of the posters that accompanied Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful films were, to put it bluntly, pony. North by Northwest, Psycho, Dial M…
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10 least plausible movie stunts
Complaining about implausibility in Hollywood can be something of a forlorn exercise. What did you expect, reality? Boring. However, some stunts are so far beyond the pale that we feel duty bound to…
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Prometheus trailer
While this week in December has traditionally revolved around getting excited for Christmas, a bumper selection of 2012 trailers have made us more pumped for the year what comes after.
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Alternative Home Alone posters
As festive films go, few can top Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin's magnum opus.
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First Hobbit trailer lands
It’s time to dust off your leather jerkin, ragged three-quarter length trousers and hairy feet – the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has emerged…
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Enter the dragon
Hollywood’s version of Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is finally upon us. We speak to the enigma that is Daniel Craig.
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Johnny Depp
“I am preparing myself to forgive you,” says Johnny Depp, dramatically. “I think you’ve been punished enough.”
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Seth Rogen
As we make our way to interview Seth Rogen, there’s an unmistakable sound echoing down the hotel corridor.
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The Dark Knight Rises Trailer
We deserve this. After a four year gap since The Dark Knight and a flurry of hype, including the recently released teaser poster, we've been rather impatient for footage.
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Movie alphabet posters
Okay so we know that it's still taking a while to get back into the swing of things after the Christmas break but we have something to force your brain into a workout.
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Child actors: then and now
Dismissed as a hopeless write-off by your early teens, obligatory substance abuse problems to follow and an ill-advised reality show comeback aged 20, who wouldn’t want to be a child prodigy in…
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The Dictator trailer
While Bruno might be best forgotten about, there's no denying the Oscar-nominated brilliance of Borat.
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American Horror Story house for sale
The house featured in American Horror Story is for sale for $4.5 million (£3 million)
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The Inbetweeners exclusive
Any drink which has the word suicide in the title is never going to be a good thing. Especially if it's right next to the word shot. Since we're slightly, ahem, older than the characters in The…
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Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Exclusive
Was anyone else knocked for six by Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes? We were. The visuals were stunning and the level of detail in the motion capture technology is bought home by this exclusive video…
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The worst trailers ever
These days at the cinema, after sitting through 20 minutes worth of ads before the trailers even begin, we're not always in the best of moods. So it takes a little something special to stop us from…
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Michael Shannon
If you've ever seen a film or TV show with Michael Shannon then you'll be aware that he's a very serious man. The Oscar-nominated actor has played a variety of intense characters in Boardwalk Empire,…
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Seth Rogen
It's not easy making a comedy about cancer. Anyone who's read our script about a clown going through chemotherapy will attest to that. But in the acclaimed new film 50/50, writer Will Reiser tries to…
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Bad reviews for good movies
It's hard to make everyone happy. Just yesterday, we bought Snickers bars for the whole office and it turned out that one person was on a diet, another didn't like caramel (?!) and someone else had a…
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The 30 Coolest Films Ever
To celebrate the commemoration of all things cool in this week's issue, we decided to trace the evolution of that tricky concept – cool – through the medium of cinema. So, without…
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10 Worst Supervillains
To define a great hero, he must face a worthy adversary. Ali is the greatest because he faced and beat Foreman. England took down a formidable Australian side in the 2005 Ashes. The 1974 German side…
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Simplified movie posters
The busier a film poster, the larger our frown tends to be. Floating heads, frenzied quotes, exploding trains; we'll have none of it.
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Dangerous movie jobs
In the real world, the most dangerous jobs are fairly obvious. Lion tamers, skyscraper window cleaners, Naomi Campbell’s personal assistants: All these employees live with the constant threat…
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