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Top 10 best films to see in 2012
The best blockbuster, indie and foreign films to see in 2012. We pick ten of the best upcoming cinema releases, and also highlight a few more pretty cool movies we're keeping our eye on. Because when it came to picking the best movies in 2012, ten just wasn't enough...
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Top 30 Horror films in 2012
Top horror films in 2012: Looking for the best gore, suspense and supernatural horror films to see in 2012? Mookychick has it covered, from foreign horror to Lovecraftian thrillers and witty, energetic slashers. Pass the popcorn. Fangs.
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John Carter official movie trailer
Ladies, gentlemen, don your monacles / opera spyglasses and peruse the official film trailer for Disney's steampunk-ish JOHN CARTER at your earliest convenience! We plan to watch it wearing rose-tinted brass goggles.
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Batman news - Help record the Batman Dark Knight Rises chant and be in the film!
So you know that Batman film, Dark Knight Rises? Yeah, sure you do. Record a quick and easy chant on Ujam, and your scary gregorian / insane asylum growlings may end up in the film. Creepy/exciting, no?
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REAL STEEL review
Film reviews - Real Steel has fighting robots in. And even though it's a Disney movie it's still got sharp dialogue. Surely we had you at FIGHTING ROBOTS...
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Death Bell review
Film reviews - What do you get if you cross cheeky high school slashers with SAW, BATTLE ROYALE and classy Korean cinema? DEATH BELL, that's what! We're a bit surprised nobody thought of doing it sooner...
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Silent Movies
Do you find 3-D glasses more irksome than enhancing? Do thrilling special effects leave you yawning? Immerse yourself a fascinating film form! No, not the advent of 4-D, but the advent of film itself - silent movies.
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Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 - Official Movie Trailer
Check out the first official film trailer for Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 - and enjoy articles covering a feminist approach to Twilight, Stephane Meyers' romantic fantasies and how Twilight breaks with vampire tradition.
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Top 20 Best Korean Films of All Time
Bookmark and then see the best Korean films of all time - From eerie horror to surreally quirky romance and unique action thrillers with beautiful cinematography. Mookychick proudly presents the best Korean films ever...
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Love And Other Impossible Pursuits review
With a soundtrack featuring Adele and the Flaming Lips, this Natalie Portman / Lisa Kudrow film is a look at grief and redemption that feels sad, sweet poetic and very real...
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Source Code review
After the warm, eerie splendidness of 'Moon', all eyes were on Duncan Jones and his next big budget venture. Sophisticated time travel thriller 'Source Code' raises questions, but it's still better than the rest...
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Super 8 review
Channeling early-era Spielberg, JJ Abrams concocts a retro summer adventure when a bunch of kids filming a home-made zombie movie discover something terrifying has escaped from a wrecked army train... and they may be the only ones able to help.
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Hua Mulan review (2009)
'Hua Mulan' (the chinese live action epic, not the Disney song-and-dance affair) tells the gut-wrenching story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who becomes an army general and fights to defend her father. A traditional, raw, and utterly, eye-searingly beautiful movie...
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Pictures of THE HOBBIT movie!
See Mookychick's pictures of THE HOBBIT movie! Check out pictures of the dwarves and Martin Freeman as the Hobbit, along with the Hobbit cast news, the Hobbit curse and more...
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Easy A - review
'Easy A' is an american high school movie with offbeat characterisation and one of the sharpest scripts in town. Fans of 'Mean Girls' and 'Heathers' will probably already have seen it. If you haven't, your penance is to watch it immediately, you big filmy floozy.
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Villain - review
A pretty teenager is murdered, but who did it? The popular bully that Mitsuyo has a crush on or the loner weirdo she meets on a dating site? Japanese film VILLAIN is gripping, beautiful, long... and the world never stops raining.
Grrl Arts & Events
The Last Day of Innocence gothic fashion DVD
Multimedia DVD: We checked out underground gothic fashion video 'The Last Day of Innocence'. See Wave Gothic, Cyber Goth, Gothic Lolita, Wave Punk, Victoriandustrial, Fetish fashion and cool goth guys with metal legs come alive before your very eyes!
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X Men First Class - review
Bad: What's worse than being a mutant? Being a non-white mutant, apparently. Good: Xavier and Magneto's bromance = BRING. IT. ON. We check out 'X-Men: First Class' and make NO jokes about whether it's first class or not because we're, like, above that.
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Stake Land - review
Gripping apocalyptic vampire road movie STAKE LAND (out June 17) features teens, even pregnant ones, but expect no Twilight sparkles and predators to run from rather than die for. Double thumbs up from Mookychick.
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Ghost Ship - review
Horror movie 'Ghost Ship' only got 13% on Rotten Tomatoes but it promises to scare you shipless. With its pathos and cheese wire on the dancefloor, it's a guilty pleasure that's tense, tragic and strangely human.
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Where The Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze has moved from directing Beastie Boy music videos to a richly symbolic love letter to the wild imagination and freedom of childhood. 'Where The Wild Things Are' blends animation and reality with a gorgeous soundtrack by Karen O. One word? Genius. Four words? Yay for wolf suits!
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Hachi - A Dog's Tale Review
Look. What can we say? We reviewed 'Hachi - A Dog's Tale', a movie about a dog so faithful it waited 9 years for its Japanese owner to return. Did we really review this? Yes. We really did. We reviewed a movie with Richard Gere in it. We're eclectic like that. Prepare to cry your eyes out.
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Black Swan Review
Lots of girls dream of being ballerinas, but what if the dream becomes a nightmare? The dark fairytale 'Black Swan' has its roots in the psychological trials that genuinely plague professional dancers. Unmissable.
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La Belle et La Bete
The mythology and symbolism loving director Jean Cocteau created the surreal 'La Belle et La Bete'. He made a Beauty and the Beast with Belle, Gaston and all the characters you'll know from the Disney version... but transformed into a timelessly dark fairytale...
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Tangled: Review
Disney's latest take on the classic Rapunzel fairytale echoes the decisions made when leaving home for college. Though named 'Tangled' for more boy-appeal, it even strikes a balance between feminism and singing animal friends. Thumbs-up from Mookychick!
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The Art of Hammer: Posters from the Archive of Hammer Films
Now considered classics among many, originally the horror and comedy productions of Hammer Films were unappreciated by critics. Campy or controversial, the Hammer Horror & Comedy posters were often painted works of art...
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Teenage wasteland - the slasher movie uncut
Every horror film fan with a soft spot for slasher films would do well to pick up 'Teenage wasteland - the slasher movie uncut'. Explore the roots of slasher films and discover thousand of hidden film gem thrills...
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Hannah Montana review
Hannah Montana: The Movie is a cheap cash-in on a terminally ill TV show; it's in an existential crisis. Yet it's this very thing that gives the movie a pleasing added depth.
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Drag Me To Hell review
Returning to form from his outing with the Spiderman trilogy, Sam Raimi - with more bucks at his disposal - goes back to basics, delivering the type of horror that made him a household-name on the cult circuit during his college years.
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Battle Royale review
Must-watch Japanese films: Battle Royale is the ultimate dystopian nightmare: A bunch of riotous schookids put on an island and encouraged to kill each other in the name of a Government experiment. Good grisly fun with a social message.
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Shine a light on... Old movies
Some old movies are dark and hard, not a fuzzy monochrome box of chocolates and a tearful tissue on a wet saturday afternoon. We look at some of the black and white gems out there.
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Interview with a Vampire-Slayer
In the minds of Transylvanian locals, vampires (strigoi) abound. Their beliefs are stranger than sparkling hotties and even King Vampire Boris Karloff, and anyone delving a little deeper into vampire mythology has to grapple with it. Meet the real vampire slayers.
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Perfect Blue review
Anime: 'Pefect Blue' is a 1998 Japanese animated psychological thriller directed by Satoshi Kon. As a j-pop idol changes her career to actress, she displeases her fans - and a stalker - to the point where reality and fantasy blur...
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Scott Pilgrim film review
You've probably read enough film reviews on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World to know it's had a mixed reception. We at Mookychick think unicorns leap in formation out of Edgar Wright's bottom. He is that good. But is Scott Pilgrim?
Movie News
The Last Airbender Controversy
Hollywood is filled with casual racism. Inter-racial kisses are rare. The black guy rarely survives. And now in the Last Airbender we have a bunch of asians played by white leads. Nice gesture, M. Night Shyamalan - shame about the values.
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Whip It! See it! Do it!
Film reviews: Skinny indie boys & feisty inked rollergirls jam it out in 'Whip It!', a teen movie about Roller Derby!. Exhilarating & damn good fun.
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Dead Snow review
Dead Snow is a horror film with zombies and Nazis. Nazi zombies. Brush up your German and prepare for a little Ein... Zwei... Die.
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Bright Star review
Movie reviews: Bright Star (2009) is a romantic costume drama following the tragic love affair between John Keats, one of Britain's best loved romantic poets, and Fanny Brawne.
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Kamikaze Girls
Japanese movies: Like Japanese clothing and culture? Kamikaze Girls is a secret japanese gem of a movie. A Lolita and Bosozoku (biker girl) become unlikely friends as they search Tokyo for frilly dresses and the meaning of life...
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Zombieland review
Zombie movies: Zombieland is a zombie rom-com that has no interest in explaining how the zombie apocalypse happened. Who cares? We just want to enjoy the 33 rules of zombie survival and Bill Murray...
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10 Indie romcoms for perfect comedy romance
Indie romantic comedies: Let's take the alternative route to love with these 10 quirky, offbeat indie romcoms. What girl doesn't want imagination, mental hospitals and the afterlife along with the sweet comedy and romance?
Movie Reviews
Full metal alchemist - brotherhood
Anime reviews: Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a remake of the original classic anime about two young alchemists trying to regain their lost bodies after breaking the ultimate taboo...
Movie Reviews
District 9
Sci-fi films: District 9 is a welcome return to politics in sci-fi. It begins like an Apartheid spin on Brazilian ghetto drama City Of God, mutates into The Fly, and winds up pushing emotional buttons in a way reminiscent of ET...
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Firefly
Cult TV: Joss Whedon (Buffy, Firefly, Dollhouse) is the king of character development and successfully independent mainstream TV and movie making. Be it 2010 or 2517, humans still need love, equality and - according to Firefly - most of all, freedom.
Movie Reviews
MOON
Sci fi movies: MOON is the first feature film by David Bowie's son. It's an intimate and beautiful sci-fi thriller that has already won awards and is being ranked with Alien, Blade Runner and 2001...
Movie Reviews
The Last Day of Innocence gothic fashion DVD
Film reviews: We checked out underground gothic fashion video 'The Last Day of Innocence'. See Wave Gothic, Cyber Goth, Gothic Lolita, Wave Punk, Victoriandustrial, Fetish fashion and cool goth guys with metal legs come alive before your very eyes!
Movie Reviews
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Movie reviews: Terry Gilliam has always had a vividly imaginative approach to making films. When Heath Ledger died in the making of Dr Parnassus, the obvious solution was to split his character with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell...
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Repo! The genetic opera
Horror movies: Horror film fans take note! If you can imagine Sweeny Todd, Brazil, Rocky Horror and Blade Runner mixed with daily plastic surgery and drug addiction then Bam! You have Repo! The Genetic Opera...
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Princes et Princesses
Anime reviews: 'Princes et Princesses' is an animated movie released in Japan under Studio Ghibli comprised of 6 fairytales, though the settings range from a French Rococo garden to ancient Egypt to even the year 3000...
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Top Five Bad-Ass Females in Movies
Film reviews: Though women are still fighting for their right for equal pay, when it comes to being bad-ass, they're equal all the way. To celebrate the release of Dragonball Evolution (2 feisty females show boys a thing or two about feminism via kicking ass), the DE people have put together a list of 5 of the toughest women ever to fight their way across the screen. Okay, we've never seen Dragonball Z, but the list still made us giggle.
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The Age of Stupid
Comic reviews: The Age of Stupid is a film that will either change you or remind you why you bothered in the first place. Sometimes we need a kickstart to climb out of the doldrums and back into a state of empowered action. And with the Copenhagen climate change talks coming up, there's never been a better time to get involved...
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Big, blue and badass: Watchmen, we love you all...
Film reviews: In September of 1986, DC Comics released a series that would forever change the face of the comic book industry: Watchmen, one of the most well-known and well-loved comic books ever. Like LOTR, Watchmen is a book they said could NEVER be turned into a film...
Movie Reviews
Girls Rock Camp - the movie
DVD reviews: Girls Rock! The Movie is a music documentary follows the journey of four 8-18-year-olds as they are transformed by the liberating powers of music at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. Given the opportunity to bash the drums, wail like a banshee and take up space, the girls jettison gender stereotypes like old hats on their way to a joyous final concert that will change their lives forever.
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A girl's guide to J-Horror
Film reviews: We in the West have this peculiar habit of taking simple things and turning them into contrived, distinctly unsubtle and generally messy concepts. The horror film is no exception. Back in the 1950's, before we had the idea, the Japanese horror film ('J-horror') was already taking shape...
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What makes a perfect slasher movie - and how to survive one
Film reviews: Some people just don't get slashers. Some people are looking for an intellectual, thought-provoking, abstract piece of cinematic entertainment that supplies more than a predictable bloodbath. These people are missing the point entirely...
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Twilight - Nice film, shame it's not the dawn of cinema
Film reviews: "When you can live forever, what do you live for?" With fans going to see Twilight in droves, non-fans wondering what all the fuss is about, and the media delighted to spend column inches worrying about the perceived abstinence-pushing in the book, our intrepid reporter watches 'Twilight' on the big screen. Yes, but is it art?
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UK horror: Outpost review
DVD reviews: Recent years have put Britain back on the horror map, right bang where it belongs. So, what's Outpost all about? Apart from being a well-made low budget UK horror film about undead Nazis? And what is its position in UK horror history?
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And now for something completely different... Monty Python
Book reviews: It's possibly difficult now, forty years on and three or four comedy generations down the line, to appreciate just how groundbreaking Monty Python's Flying Circus was and still is. Before Michael Palin travelled the globe and Terry Jones became a historian. Before Terry Gilliam directed some of the best films ever made and Eric Idle produced Broadway musicals. Before John Cleese stopped being funny and Graham Chapman died. Before any of that, there was Monty Python's Flying Circus. And after all of that, there's a new DVD box set of the original TV Series.
Movie Reviews
This town ain't nothing but a Ghost Town
Movie reviews featuring sturdy deadpan funnymen:You may think that 'Ghost Town', a very mainstream film about a rude short stocky bloke, is an odd choice for a Mookychick review. Well, you'd be right. But it has Ricky Gervais in it. And that makes everything better.
Movie Reviews
Ben-X
Film Reviews: Ben-X is a film about an autistic emo teenager who's bullied at school and retreats to a world to online roleplaying games, aided only by Scarlite, a beautiful princess. But what happens when he meets her in real life? If you like Sigur Ros, Requiem for a Dream, geek references and gut-wrenching lip-chewing tension, it's time to find out more about the darkly intriguing world of Ben-X.
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Freaks - the movie
Film Reviews: Freaks is one of the all-time horror movie greats. It has hugely overblown acting and it's made in the 1930s, but the plot is fantastic and its B-movie royal status lies in all the freaks in the cast being genuine. From the 'human worm' to the 'pinhead' family to the question of what a freak really is, this film is a novelty must-see.
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Casino Royale
Film Reviews: Daniel Craig has brought the sexy back! Made furious by a recent scandal surrounding journalists reviewing Casino Royale without seeing it, Holly Kirkwood puts her money where her mouth is - and says that, yes, Casino Royale is a safe bet.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Film Reviews: There are comparisons to be made to the Star Wars trilogy and Pirates of the Caribbean is definitely borrowing heavily from The Empire Strikes Back. But any film which has the amazing Captain Jack Sparrow cannot be faulted...
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Bad Girls: Tough Girl Cinema
Film Reviews: There's an exploding genre of action films with uber-tough sassy girls. They kick righteous ass but never smudge their lipstick... and only bat their eyelashes at a guy for smooches, not for assistance. Tough girls of cinema, we salute you!
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Brief Encounter
Film Reviews: It's too easy to get turned off by black-and-white films but you really should see 'Brief Encounter'. It's kitsch, it's slow-moving, it's old-fashioned, it's black and white, there are no sudden plot twists and it's so, so British...
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Indie film reviews
Indie film reviews on Mookychick. From horror films to japanese films, from sci-fi movies and monster movies to quirky indie comedies, we've got them all. If you're looking for the best film from an alternative POV you'll find it at - Mookychick
