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Film review | Looper – Rian Johnson’s sci-fi noir: no need for time-travel to spot a future cult classic

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s debut film, teen mystery thriller Brick (2005), was Dawson’s Creek meets The Big Sleep. His second, quirky con-men comedy The Brothers Bloom (2008), was The Sting remade by Wes Anderson. What then to make of his third … Continue reading

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Pete’s Peek | Want to play Tokyo Gore School’s deadly game?

From Yohei Fukuda, who directed the bikini-clad cowboy zombie flick Chanbara Beauty and was the cinematographer on the banned shocker Grotesque comes Tokyo Gore School. Popular student Fujiwara is set upon by a group of students one day without any … Continue reading

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Greatest Action Heroes – The Top 10

Sylvester Stallone is the greatest old-school action hero! We asked you to tell us who was the best of the bunch of muscular screen heroes who burst onto the screen in the 1980s and early 90s – and your verdict, … Continue reading

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Terminator Salvation Competition Winners

Our competition to win a copy of the blockbuster sci-fi action movie Terminator Salvation on DVD is now closed.  Thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes and well done to all the entrants who answered correctly that … Continue reading

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Win a copy of Terminator Salvation on DVD

This competition has now closed.  Christian Bale’s resistance hero John Connor leads the fight back against the killer robots in Terminator Salvation, but can he trust Sam Worthington’s enigmatic Marcus Wright, a death-row prisoner from the past who has somehow … Continue reading

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Out on DVD: Terminator Salvation

An unstoppable juggernaut at the box-office over the summer, Terminator Salvation finds Charlie’s Angels director McG at the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action thriller franchise. The series has now reached the year 2018, where Christian Bale’s … Continue reading

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The Best View | 9 – Too grim for children; not clever enough for grown-ups

Animated movies have reached such heights of visual sophistication that we’ve come to take the most astonishing feats of technical virtuosity for granted. Which is all to the good. Now that we’ve stopped gasping at animators’ skill at rendering fur … Continue reading

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Pete’s Peek | From Within – packed with chills!

Supernatural fans will get a chill of excitement out of this scary little tale of sorcery, revenge and murder. Like a feature-length version of the popular TV drama, albeit minus that show’s heartthrob leads, From Within, has its own pin-up … Continue reading

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Terminator Salvation destroys all opposition at the box office – We have explosive clips

The reviews for Terminator Salvation have mostly been scathing, but the fourth movie in the Terminator series has proved as unstoppable as those killer robots – relentlessly blasting its way to the top of the UK box office charts over … Continue reading

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The Best view | Terminator Salvation – The Robot killing machines return, McG is at the helm: Be afraid, be very afraid!

Bloodcurdling. Chilling. Terrifying. They strike fear wherever they appear. No, not the unstoppable robot killing machines. I mean the three words ‘Directed by McG’. Admit it, even the hardiest of souls quake at the mere mention of the phrase. McG: … Continue reading

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