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10 Best Films of 2010
Gents, it has been an amazing year for movies. With all these dream-raiders, teenage billionaires, improvised superheroes and child-eating cannibals it's no wonder our DVD players are more redundant than a labrador's lightsabre. What follows is our extremely scientific best movie poll. Essentially…
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10 Most Underrated Films
(Our Top 10 at Ten -- It's a list of ten that we put up at 10am. You get that, right?) It’s Sunday afternoon, you’re watching TV and you’ve just tuned in to a famously panned film. But you can’t turn over; this film’s engaging, it’s funny and it features that bloke from that sitcom you…
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Unlikeable film heroes
Hero. It's a powerful word. A bit like 'hammer' or 'boom'. Film heroes are supposed to be amazing, the most perfect wonderful people for whom we all want the best. Or they can be 'anti-heroes', who aren't perfect or wonderful, but it's made very clear that they're not supposed to be perfect or…
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Unseen Hollywood
In today’s world of instant information, not even a closed film set is a place of sanctity. It seems the second an actor loses their temper, recordings are immediately posted on websites, parodied on Family Guy and edited into comedy hip-hop tracks. But it wasn’t always like this. Before…
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Iron Man 2 Exclusive
Most superhero films used to either be brooding and dark like Chris Nolan's Batman or goofy and daft like Fantastic Four. But then Iron Man came along and fused great gags with big themes before chucking Robert Downey Jr's mesmerising central performance into the mix. The show-stopping sequel is…
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Best on-screen resignations
“Bosses”, muses Bill Hicks in his 1989 stand-up show, Sane Man, “aren't they something?” He mimes slapping an insect away from his face and continues, “They're like gnats on a camping trip… Get the f*ck off me. It's just a job; it doesn't mean a thing”.
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Machete: Exclusive clip
There was a time when granite-faced actor Danny Trejo couldn't get a word in edgeways in a Robert De Niro film. Trejo, less we forget, played the getaway driver in the 1995 De Niro/Pacino epic Heat managing all of one line in the 170 minute duration. Things have changed a touch. The Mexican is now…
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Exclusive: Clip from Buried
We’ve all woken up in some strange and unpleasant places, but you’d have to go some distance to match Ryan Reynolds’s predicament in new film Buried. A truck driver in Iraq, he wakes up at the beginning of the film to find himself in a coffin six feet underground, with only a mobile phone for…
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