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Jacques Audiard’s films ranked from worst to best

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Matthew Lee ranks Jacques Audiard’s films from worst to best… To coincide with the release of Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan [read our review here], the winner of last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, we’re looking through this auteur’s back catalogue. With consistent critical acclaim, we’re here to see if such receptions still hold up, and […]

Why Mindhunter Is One of Netflix’s Greatest Ever Shows

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Samuel Brace on Netflix’s Mindhunter… “How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” This is the central question behind Netflix’s original drama Mindhunter, a series based on real life events and characters, a series that delves into the formation of the FBI’s behavioural sciences unit. Mindhunter has an awful […]

Why Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars movie

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Luke Owen looks back at Attack of the Clones… The year is 1999. The excitement and buzz surrounding the release of the first Star Wars movie since 1983 is at an all-time high. We’d recently just relived our love of the original trilogy via the 1997 Special Edition re-releases, and now here we are with […]

Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film

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Tom Jolliffe looks at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s history of tournament fight films… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For a while in the earlier career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, that seemed to be more or less the case. When Enter the Dragon ended up as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon, a host of imitators […]

Three Films and Six Van Dammes: The JCVD Dual Role Routine

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s dual role films… Who doesn’t love an action star? Oi, put your hands down now! Still, for us that do, we all have our favourites. Occasionally there were rivalries and camps. You could be an Arnold Schwarzenegger kid or a Sylvester Stallone kid. Maybe you were secretly […]

The Best Story Arcs from Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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Ricky Church on the best story arcs from Star Wars: The Clone Wars… With Star Wars: The Clone Wars currently airing its long-awaited seventh and final season, it’s high time to get caught up on the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano during the widespread Clone Wars. Though Disney+ recently put out a list […]

30 Years On: Steven Seagal in Marked For Death

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at one of Steven Seagal’s early works, as Marked For Death turns 30… After breaking out with Above The Law, a lot was expected among action fans for what would follow from Steven Seagal. It would take a couple of years waiting until the next one, but 1990 saw two Seagal […]

A Double Hit of Luc Besson Assassin Films: Nikita and Leon

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Tom Jolliffe double bills Luc Besson’s Nikita and Leon…  Think back to the 90’s. A transitional time for action films. It was also an era that saw a French director hit it big in Hollywood. Then think about the best assassin films of the decade. Chances are when piling up candidates, you’re likely to have […]

Has Showgirls actually become kind of good?

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Showgirls, once universally derided and considered one of the worst films ever… but is it actually misunderstood? Upon its release in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s trashy spectacular, Showgirls was obliterated by critics. It was a lavish, Vegas set tale with plenty of excess dismissed as vacuous, grimy and seedy. […]