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Warm Bodies: Not all zombies love eating human flesh
Friday 22 February 2013
With zombie fiction trending so heavily, you could be forgiven for thinking that this fascination with the undead, much like the vampire before it, may be in danger of being done to, well, death. For where else is there to go? The answer, perhaps, lies no longer in aiming for the head, but getting inside it. Or at least that's what Jonathan Levine's new zom-rom-com, Warm Bodies, suggests. A film that is leading the pack in telling us that zombies are people too.
I won't have what she's having, thanks: Valentine's Day films are chocolate box coupledom
Thursday 14 February 2013
If we must have smoochy films for Valentine's Day, can't the schedulers come up with something more imaginative than this?
Caitlin Moran wins Attitude magazine's ‘Honorary Gay of The Year' award
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Caitlin Moran, journalist and author of the bestselling feminist memoir 'How To Be A Woman' has won the coveted award 'Honorary Gay of The Year' at the Attitude magazine awards last night.
The Daylight Gate, By Jeanette Winterson
Sunday 12 August 2012
This visceral Hammer horror-style restaging of the 1612 Pendle witch trials falls between two stools
Twilight adds to awards haul at Teen Choice
Monday 23 July 2012
The Twilight Saga is going to need a bigger garage.
'Black Swan' lesbian sex scene led to most viewer complaints
Thursday 12 July 2012
A lesbian sex scene helped make ballet thriller Black Swan the most complained-about film last year.
DVD & Blu-ray: Carnage (15)
Saturday 16 June 2012
Jodie Foster and John C Reilly play an earnest couple whose son has been bashed up by a fellow pupil.
In Dead Space 3 your buddy just might hear you scream
Monday 11 June 2012
But just how much does bringing a friend along diminish the franchise's signature atmosphere?
The Hunger Games wins four MTV movie Awards
Tuesday 05 June 2012
Box-office smash The Hunger Games fought off rivals to pick-up four of the eight gongs it was nominated for at this year’s MTV Movie Awards.
More glitz on Cannes red carpet than on screen
Sunday 27 May 2012
There are few big contenders for the Palme d'Or in this mediocre year
A novel approach to making blockbuster movies
Wednesday 25 April 2012
The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron and out next week, is not just another Hollywood romance, it's another Hollywood romance from author Nicholas Sparks.
Ren Harvieu, Bush Hall, London
Thursday 12 April 2012
Ren (short for Lauren) Harvieu is swaying her hips, and pouting to the sultry number "Through the Night" which has attracted comparisons to Dusty Springfield and Shirley Bassey for its replication of 60s soul.
'I'm desperate that the next book shouldn't disappoint people'
Thursday 26 January 2012
One Day author David Nicholls talks about adaptations, aging characters and having a tough act to follow
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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