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Michael Sheen and Simon Pegg in horror-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez

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Review – ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ skewers boarding school snobbery, but has little horror edge

20/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Asa Butterfield, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Crispian Mills, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Horror, Jo Hartley, Margot Robbie, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Simon Pegg, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Tom Rhys-Harries

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the producers behind Slaughterhouse Rulez, which is a below par horror-comedy.

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Henry Cavill takes to the skies in Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Review – ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ weaponises Tom Cruise’s madness

25/07/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Certificate: 12, Christopher McQuarrie, Henry Cavill, July 2018, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Rating: Pop, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames

Tom Cruise has no fear, and that’s what Christopher McQuarrie uses to make Mission: Impossible – Fallout a wild action ride.

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Tye Sheridan stars in sci-fi adventure Ready Player One

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Review – ‘Ready Player One’ is a rip-roaring adventure with an injection of pop culture nostalgia

05/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: 12, Lena Waithe, March 2018, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, Rating: Pop, Ready Player One, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, TJ Miller, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Steven Spielberg has distilled an exhausting book into a shot of pure cinema that is genuinely a joy to watch with Ready Player One.

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Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison in political satire In the Loop

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11 best uses of the C-word in movie history

29/07/2017 Tom Beasley 1 Comment Alan Ford, Blade: Trinity, Brendan Gleeson, Bridesmaids, Chloe Grace Moretz, Colin Farrell, In Bruges, In the Loop, James Buckley, Kick-Ass, Kristen Wiig, Peter Capaldi, Ralph Fiennes, Richard E Grant, Robert Carlyle, Ryan Reynolds, Shane Meadows, Simon Pegg, Snatch, Stephen Graham, The Inbetweeners 2, The World's End, This Is England, Trainspotting, Withnail & I

It’s the only word that guarantees an instant adult rating in Hollywood, but which movies have made the best use of the C-word?

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Tom Hardy at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of The Drop

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News Round-up – Tom Hardy cast as Venom, Emoji Movie trailer, Johnny English returns and more

21/05/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Antoine Fuqua, Crispian Mills, David Ayer, Diego Luna, Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile, Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Berlinger, Johnny English, News, News Round-up, Nick Frost, Oscars, Patrick Stewart, Rowan Atkinson, Ruben Fleischer, Scarface, Simon Pegg, Slaughterhouse Rulez, The Emoji Movie, Tom Hardy, Venom, Zac Efron

Suddenly, Sony’s antihero property Venom looks like something a little more interesting than a shameless cash-in.

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Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto in Star Trek Beyond

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Review – Star Trek Beyond

26/08/201625/08/2016 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2016, Action, Anton Yelchin, Certificate: 12, Chris Pine, Idris Elba, John Cho, July 2016, Justin Lin, Karl Urban, Rating: Pop, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, Star Trek, Star Trek Beyond, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana

Review of 2016 sci-fi threequel Star Trek Beyond, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban.

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Review – Absolutely Anything

18/09/2015 Tom Beasley 2 Comments 2015, Absolutely Anything, August 2015, Certificate: 12, Comedy, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Kate Beckinsale, Monty Python, Rating: Poop, Rob Riggle, Robin Williams, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Pegg, Terry Jones

Review of 2015 British comedy Absolutely Anything, starring Simon Pegg and the surviving members of Monty Python.

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Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

06/09/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2015, Action, Alec Baldwin, Certificate: 12, Christopher McQuarrie, Jeremy Renner, July 2015, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Rating: Pop, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney, Simon Pegg, Thriller, Tom Cruise, Tom Hollander, Ving Rhames

Review of 2015 action sequel Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson.

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Review – Man Up

07/07/2015 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2015, Ben Palmer, British, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Lake Bell, Man Up, May 2015, Ophelia Lovibond, Rating: Pop, Romance, Romcom, Rory Kinnear, Simon Pegg

Review of 2015 British romantic comedy Man Up, starring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg.

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Review – The Boxtrolls

27/09/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, Animated, Animation, Anthony Stacchi, Ben Kingsley, Certificate: PG, Elle Fanning, Graham Annable, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jared Harris, Laika, Nick Frost, Rating: Pop, Richard Ayoade, September 2014, Simon Pegg, The Boxtrolls

Review of 2014 stop motion animated family film The Boxtrolls, starring Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning and a deliciously hammy Ben Kingsley.

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Review – Hector and the Search for Happiness

24/08/2014 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2014, August 2014, Certificate: 15, Christopher Plummer, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Peter Chelsom, Rating: Poop, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Stellan Skarsgård, Toni Collette

Review of 2014 dramedy Hector and the Search for Happiness, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

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