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Where’s the thrill in today’s cookie-cutter monster movies?

The CGI and technical wizardry in this year’s blockbuster sci-fi flicks can’t make up for a lack of ingenuity in design The big movies this year have been full of monsters, aliens, robots – all sorts of creatures and creations. On the surface, there’s never been a better time for lovers of monster movies. But [...]

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Where’s the thrill in today’s cookie-cutter monster movies?

The CGI and technical wizardry in this year’s blockbuster sci-fi flicks can’t make up for a lack of ingenuity in design The big movies this year have been full of monsters, aliens, robots – all sorts of creatures and creations. On the surface, there’s never been a better time for lovers of monster movies. But [...]

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Clip joint: Bowling

Hollywood leads a wholesome, family activity down a dark, twisted alley as we pin down five of the best bowling clips Bowling is as much of a wholesome, all-American past-time as going to the cinema and Hollywood often combines the two. The bowling lane is packed with cinema-friendly iconography – for every sugary evocation of [...]

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes takes over UK box office

Audiences go bananas for James Franco prequel, while The Smurfs hits the jackpot with the kids The winner When Twentieth Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes opened the first weekend of August in the US with $55m (£33.6m), the UK arm of the studio must have felt some pressure. An equivalent result [...]

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One Day: post your questions for the cast and crew

So far it’s been a complex relationship. Things have been said. Help us re-light the fire with questions for Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Lone Scherfig and author David Nicholls• Update: this interview has now been cancelled From the lows of 2007 to 2009′s giddy highs we’ve had a complex friendship with the director, writer and stars [...]

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Licence to spoil: why film fans need not look away now

Spoilers don’t ruin stories, they increase our enjoyment of them, says a new study. Do you get in a twist over plot revelations or devour every last movie morsel you can find? In the age of Twitter, blogs and YouTube, dealing with spoilers is an everyday battle. When you’re reading about movies that are still [...]

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Harry Potter studio tour: now everyone can go to Hogwarts

From the Great Hall to Dumbledore’s office, a new Watford attraction takes fans behind the scenes of the Harry Potter films Watford may not be an area you associate with the blockbuster movie business, but it was at a former aircraft factory in the area that eight of the largest-grossing films of the past decade [...]

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