the revenant

Friday Five: The Best Beards in Movies

Forget the wilderness, the bears and the power of the human spirit: the real reason The Revenant, which was released on DVD this week, received so much acclaim was Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy's wondrous beards. In honour of Leo and Tom's survivalist facial fuzz, we've decided to pick some …

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10/06/2016
Chris Smith

10 of the best kids movies from the 90s

Being an adult is rubbish. All those responsibilities, all that work, all that pretending to know what you're talking about. Sometimes we just want to stick some Power Rangers pajamas on, eat too many biscuits and watch kids movies from the best decade ever – the 90s (argue in the …

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31/05/2016
Chris Smith

11 movies from the 60s that everyone should watch

The 1960s: the decade of hippies, The Beatles and Don Draper's unstoppable mission to seduce as many women as possible. It was also a decade of fantastic movies, with countless classics hitting cinemas and burning their way into our collective consciousness forever. With so many great movies available, it's hard …

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25/05/2016
Chris Smith
Blu-Ray

Your eyes will thank you for watching these 10 movies on Blu-Ray

The movie industry spends billions of dollars trying to make movies as eye-poppingly gorgeous as possible, only for people to watch them on tiny smartphone and tablet screens. In fairness, not all movies need the home cinema experience. But some movies are best enjoyed on a huge screen on Blu-Ray. …

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19/05/2016
Chris Smith

8 of the weirdest upcoming movies

In the age of the internet, movie studios get the hype machine whirring by announcing films years in advance. It's why we know that there's a Star Wars movie coming out in 2020, and why we know that there are approximately 100 billion Marvel movies on the way. However, a …

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16/05/2016
Chris Smith
ps4 controller

6 video game movies that are actually good

Do "˜good' video game movies exist? The evidence suggests not, with the average score for videogame films on Metacritic a lowly 30. So why do people keep making them? Angry Birds is in cinemas now, Warcraft is released at the end of the month and films based on Assassin's Creed …

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12/05/2016
Chris Smith