Alistair Ryder
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Editorial @Zavvi by day, freelance film and TV critic by night. @DorianAwards member. He/Him. Trans rights are human rights.
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guy who has only seen Dune watching his second movie
With
#Eternals
, Marvel has made a “Dune”-sized, “Dune”-length, and almost “Dune”-portentous superhero movie about literally confronting God:
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Turning off Midnights and putting on the new Carly Rae Jepsen album instead
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Bernie Sanders should do a tweet about The Iron Claw getting snubbed, something for the fellas
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Seeing Multiverse of Madness a day after Everything Everywhere All At Once did make it a pretty underwhelming experience. A $200 million budget, and the craziest thing it can imagine happening in the multiverse is ‘what if cars drove at the red light instead of green’
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John Barrowman successfully getting a refund because he didn’t like Old reminds me of when I worked at a cinema while Into the Woods was out, and we had to give multiple refunds to people who ‘didn’t realise James Corden was in it’
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Michael Stuhlbarg shows up for 30 seconds in Multiverse of Madness, does nothing other than wear a wig that makes him look distractingly like Christopher Nolan, and walks away with the ‘with’ credit. He might have the most powerful agent in Hollywood
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For ladies who insure their cars
Shielas’ Wheels are superstars
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nearly 24 hours later and I fear I'm going to be quoting Ariana DeBose's dreadful BAFTA's rap until my deathbed
Sisters are doing it for themselves! The incredible
@ArianaDeBose
opens the 2023
#EEBAFTAs
with an iconic performance! ✨
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David Fincher dropping his hottest takes with the confidence of a man who has realised everybody now knows he fucked Madonna in the 80’s
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The Adam McKay movie that actually deserves thinkpieces about how critics were wrong
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"watched by all, seen by none" is also an accurate description of how Netflix records viewing figures
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Matt Damon wiping a tear as he changes Gus Van Sant’s nickname in his contacts list
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Entertainment journalists interviewing Pedro Pascal
Pretentious Baby Who Just Learned Word ‘Daddy’ Won’t Stop Inserting It Into Conversation
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the BBC declaring JK Rowling's transphobic blog post one of the best pieces of writing of 2020, and then justifying it by (checks article) comparing her to Enoch Powell
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Credit to Adam McKay where it’s due: he has made a movie the Netflix social media intern has no idea how to make into memes
With 5 days left in the year, Timothée Chalamet just swooped in with the best line in a movie of 2021
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I hope they keep this gimmick for the general release. Cinema ushers the world over getting to add "acted alongside Adam Driver" to their CVs because they were forced to go in to screenings to recite a line of dialogue at the screen
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Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (2017) to be banned in the UK under this law
The UK’s online safety bill has some weird ideas about online safety.
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Guy who has only seen A24 movies watching The Tragedy of Macbeth: Getting a lot of "The Lighthouse" vibes from this...
Something wicked this way comes 🗡️
Denzel and Frances star in Joel Coen’s
#TheTragedyofMacbeth
. In theaters December 25 & on
@AppleTV
January 14.
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When somebody puts Joker on their best films of 2019 list
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I suspect that, in a few years time, people who loved this movie on release will finally revisit it and have the same reaction as you would when rewatching American Beauty or Garden State today
Spike Jonze’s
#Her
is the best movie to not appear on a single 2022 Sight & Sound ballot, according to a new critics’ poll:
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my guy, you also can't make movies without sufficient funding for the arts
Rishi Sunak is speaking now on his pledge to make maths mandatory until 18. He’s chosen the London Screen Academy - “because you can’t make movies without maths, you can’t make visual effects without vectors…”
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very funny to remember people were worried that expanding the critic pool would lead to Paddington 2 topping the S&S list, and because that didn't happen, we have people acting like Portrait of a Lady on Fire at number 30 is an existential threat to film history instead
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Interviewed Steven Spielberg today, and I cannot stress this enough, I did not ask him for his thoughts on Marvel movies
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Also mostly feels like Sam Raimi playing his greatest hits, which means it’s superficially very fun, but only a few moments (the music note battle!) feel inspired. Everything Elizabeth Olsen does is great though
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Michael Stuhlbarg shows up in Bones & All for less than five minutes, delivers the single greatest ‘saying the title of the film in the film’ in cinematic history, and leaves with third billing. Nobody is doing it like him
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Don’t normally binge watch TV, but just caught the first 3 episodes of the new season of Mindhunter, and it’s ‘cancel all plans until you’ve finished it’ level good
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Biggest complaint with Dune? At the start, they set up the idea that you have to do a funny walk on the sand so the worms won’t get you - and then there’s only five seconds of funny walks, over two hours later. Fix this in part two, Villeneuve!
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Moonfall lets you know you're in for a good time at the movies immediately, as it opens with the logos of five production companies that look like elaborate money laundering schemes, followed by the sweet sounds of Toto's Africa
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hoping she gives an interview where she says she's never seen a Bond film, I want the old men watching this to be IRRITATED
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Was expecting a lot of tiresome ‘Glass Onion is woke’ discourse from conservative Twitter, but pleasantly surprised to see ‘I don’t understand how a murder mystery narrative functions’ is the top complaint
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Important Sight and Sound poll reminder: only the aggregated lists come out today, not the individual ballots - this is only discourse round 1, the naming and shaming of filmmakers and critics for their terrible choices comes much later
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me watching Portrait of a Lady on Fire when I see the portrait of a lady being set on fire
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I’m sorry, but if you can’t even directly reference what the protest is about (let alone bring yourself to say the word Palestine) then what’s the point of making such a speech. Meaningless word salad
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what Paul Schrader film is this
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congratulations to Don't Look Up: you had fierce competition from Being the Ricardos, but today, you've officially been crowned this year's awards season villain. I wish you the very worst of luck
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The Jurassic World: Dominion social embargo has lifted! I saw it a couple of weeks back, but was told I’d have to go to a second screening if I wanted to review it. So, my review for now is simply: why the fuck would I ever put myself through that again
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Congrats to Rami Malek for winning the Best Actor Oscar for pretending he didn’t know about the Bryan Singer allegations
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny got more Oscar nominations (1) than All of Us Strangers, The Iron Claw, Priscilla and Ferrari combined
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Look, I’m not supposed to tell anyone, but you know the Butcher? That freakin’ nut job that just goes around chopping people up? Well, the feds heard he was going to be at the Premiere, so they set up a trap for him. That whole premiere? It’s a trap
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The Loneliest Time: possibly the best pop album of 2022?
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Watching I Saw the TV Glow when it finally gets a UK release in October 2025
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What did Stanley Tucci do to deserve this disrespect
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Congratulations to The Curse, the latest inductee in the "too good for the Emmys" club
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This is getting too close to overtaking the Boss Baby tweet for my liking, so please stop liking this, and go back to respect the definitive post of our time instead
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The latest odds are in… here’s who the bookies are predicting will be the real Agent Argylle!
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The ‘no film should be longer than two hours’ and ‘all sex scenes in movies are pointless’ people should all join together to watch Drive My Car, a film that proves both boring takes wrong and does it effortlessly. My new favourite film of 2021, quite easily
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awards season rules, endless weeks of imagining a guy whose favourite film of the year is Being the Ricardos becoming responsible for deciding what represents the best of the cinematic art form
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Once again reminding people of the main reason why Kristen Stewart (and Spencer) didn't get a BAFTA nomination
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Please enjoy a bunch of awards bloggers getting angry at the New York Times for disrespecting the Oscar season, simply by suggesting there are better films than the Oscar front runners
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My first day as Liam Neeson's PR manager is going well
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@Lurple
I earnestly hope he's sincere, because that sounds like he's having the greatest week ever if true
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This is the longest thing I’ve ever seen on the IMDb quotes page
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Some fantastic responses to this tweet from JD stans, all performatively pretending they’ve never heard of the star of one of the biggest shows on TV in the same way your dad pretends he’s never heard of any famous musician who got big after 1988
Brian Cox says he ‘feels sorry’ for Amber Heard after Johnny Depp trial
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Fun fact: the best film criticism is found scrawled on the walls of pub toilets
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The Academy is reportedly looking into why “Apartment for Sale” by Lydia Tár did not secure a Best Original Song nomination.
The issue will also likely be raised at the board of governors meeting this Tuesday.
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going insane by how many people are glossing over this bit in the guardian article (or worse, writing it off as a mere "hit piece" with an agenda, which one prominent critic already has) - I want to see Megalopolis too, that doesn't mean I should overlook this:
This must be investigated further. Casting Shia LaBeouf as well is unacceptable.
I’d also urge critics at Cannes to consider refusing to cover the film in light of these two things.
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haven't seen Back to Black but assuming they don't recreate this scene, because critics would be giving it 5's across the board if so
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I saw Britain Erects trending and I assumed it was a reference to Matt Hancock's very visible quarter chub here
To reiterate what I said at the hustings today I’ve not started making pledges about the green belt , new hospital etc because there is a General Election. I’m a local candidate who has been championing these for some time and not going to stop as GE is underway!
@warringtonnews
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For those wondering just how much he looks like Christopher Nolan:
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tbh, pretty uncomfortable with the trend of distributors releasing all their films by female directors in the middle of a pandemic, while continuing to push ones by male directors back. Same thing for festivals; Searchlight took Wes Anderson out of TIFF, replaced with Chloe Zhao
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Just watched The Good Nurse on Netflix, which sadly doesn’t dramatise the best part of the true story: the character Eddie Redmayne played being so annoying in court, the judge sentenced him to six additional life sentences because he wouldn’t shut the fuck up
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what the fuck is going on at Cannes this year. It hasn't even been 24 hours yet
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Congratulations to the winner of Outstanding British Film: a film set in America that hasn’t even been released in Britain yet
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we need to cancel the Razzies once and for all over this
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based on this poster, Scarlett Johansson IS playing a tree in this
Noah Baumbach next film, "Marriage Story," is a portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
It stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.
@LauraDern
, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta co-star.
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Glad that Zarah Sultana went into politics instead of film criticism
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10 - IGN
10 - Inverse
10 - RPG Site
10 - Gamespot
10 - Destructoid
10 - Nintendo Life
10 - CG Magazine
9.8 - Game Informer
5/5 - VGC
5/5 - VG247
5/5 - GamesHub
5/5 - ComicBook
4/5 - Eurogamer
Metacritic: 97
Opencritic: 98
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Eternally fascinated by the Exhibitor Relations account - immediately cracking gags when some indie or non franchise movie bombs, but quick to offer weird excuses when a Disney tentpole underperforms
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Honey Boy joins Ad Astra in 2019’s ‘wait, Natasha Lyonne is in this?’ canon
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You couldn’t make a film like Tropic Thunder today, because all of Hollywood is in lockdown, you can’t make any films today
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As always, I look forward to seeing this year’s Cannes prize winners when they finally arrive in UK cinemas sometime in April 2024, long after the hype has died down and the discourse is months old
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seeing these announcements side by side really does make the UK's biggest film festival look like a joke
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Among the most offensive things ever published by The Guardian: the suggestion Ted is a better talking bear movie than Paddington 2
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Call me old fashioned, but I remember the days where we all accepted the simple fact that The Last Duel bombed because the studio didn’t bother marketing a film with four A-list stars and a massive director, to the extent nobody outside of Twitter knew it existed
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Disney: Here's a $300 million blockbuster with an entirely Asian cast, breaking new ground for representation in giant blockbusters
random guy on twitter: yeah but where's the dragon
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I only use your site to watch music videos and movie trailers, and yet alt right stuff is consistently in my recommendations box. Only removing violent footage of the attack and not the videos that promote the hateful ideology that caused it is missing the problem altogether
Our hearts are broken over today’s terrible tragedy in New Zealand. Please know we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage.
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(watches a bunch of Americans doing comedy Italian accents) this, to me, is an outstanding british film
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‘But tonight thank god it’s them, instead of you’ - most psychopathic lyric ever written. Bono, this is a charity song about starving children
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how's he going to be able to do this while completing his prison sentence for making Jojo Rabbit
Very Exciting Thing: Taika Waititi will write and direct Netflix’s first ~two~ Roald Dahl animated series events – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a wholly original take on the Oompa-Loompas.
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With Indiewire naming Lost in Translation as one of the best comedies of the century (?), let's look back and remember when their chief critic David Ehrlich wrote one of the all time creepiest pieces of film criticism about it
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This tweet implies he’s sneaking his two young daughters in to see a 15 rated movie straight after Barbie - please come get this man
@BBFC
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the people posting a black square on instagram (after not saying a thing about the protests for a whole week) rn
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Richard Linklater’s HIT MAN is the best PR straight people have had in years. A movie that succeeds in convincing audiences that heterosexuality can sometimes be sexy - the power of the movies
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The best thing about hiring Noah Baumbach to co-write a Barbie movie is the guarantee that you'll get lots of film bros heading to their nearest cinema, looking the cashier dead in the eye, and asking for a ticket to see Barbie
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The most rebellious thing you can do in society is walk out of a Marvel movie as soon as the end credits start
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Important PSA: The new film from the director of TRAIN TO BUSAN is streaming on Netflix worldwide from today - and they haven't bothered publicising this fact whatsoever!
Psychokinesis (2018) 1hr 41m [15] (Korean) Suddenly possessed with supernatural powers, a father sets out to help his estranged daughter, who's at risk of losing everything she's lived for....
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Just saw Free Guy, and it’s clear that Taika Waititi is entering his ‘taking the roles James Corden turns down’ era
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I say this every year, but: imagine if the BAFTA's actually celebrated the best talent in the British film industry and weren't just another awards ceremony that exists purely as a way to gauge where the Oscar race stands right now
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