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Watch The Snow White & The Huntsman Trailer & Try Not To Drop Dead From Sheer Boredom

by Michael Park

Well, it’s almost that time of year. You remember, right? The time of year when the two Snow White films come out at exactly the same time, injecting new, vampiric life into the classic tale of Snow White. No seven dwarves here- just TEENAGE ANGST. Although, if we’re being fair (which we rarely are) the [...]

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Movie Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin

by hecklerspray staff

We Need To Talk About Kevin is one of those films where everybody says they loved it for its gritty portrayal of a mother coming to terms with the fact her misunderstood son killed a load of people at school for no apparent reason, making everyone throw their hands in the air and scream ‘WHY [...]

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The Reviews Are Wrong: Drive, A Lesson In Absolute Tedium

by Mof Gimmers

At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Drive was loved so much that, when the movie finally finished, everyone leapt to their feet to give it a standing ovation. A film. A standing ovation. One can only assume that this ovation must have been like the tears cried by a hostage when they receive a rare [...]

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The Inbetweeners Movie Breaks Box-Office Records, Despite Being Desperately Unfunny

by Matthew Laidlow

When E4 had eventually grown tired of showing endless repeats of Friends and Scrubs, the channel eventually spat out its own unique programming, aimed at the sort of person that hecklerspray writers aren’t; the young, the cool, the hip and the trendy. Arseholes, basically. On one end of the spectrum, there was Skins, a programme [...]

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HecklerPlay Festival Preview: August

by Si Sharp

Ah, festivals. Possibly the best thing about living in Britain is that because the weather is so dreary most of the year we party like idiots as soon as the sun comes out. We used to have to either choose between about four festivals or go to Ibiza to combine hedonism and music. Now we [...]

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Review: Batman Live @ MIF

by hecklerspray staff

Following on from the cultural apocalypse of The Manchester International Festival comes Batman Live; another intellectual tour-de-force which sees everyone’s favourite schizophrenic do battle with a bunch of villains for two-and-a-bit hours at the glamorously named Manchester Evening News Arena. It’s worth noting, straight-out-the-gate, that this isn’t really a story about The Dark Knight (old [...]

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Movie Review: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Or, We Went To Watch Transformers 3 And Things Went Kaboom!)

by hecklerspray staff

Right lets cut to the chase, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has a crap script and the acting is, for lack of a better word, shit. Sorry Michael, but bear with us because you come off good in the end… It’s still got those bloody parents in it, it’s rife with dodgy racial stereotyping, the [...]

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Film Review: Bad Teacher

by Justrestingmyeyes

Let’s get one thing straight. No-one, but no-one, likes a worthy teacher film. Nothing brings up the traditional blogger’s lunch of White Lightning and pocket fluff into a hecklersprayer’s gullet quicker than watching some earnest nonsense where some skinny blonde chick like Mickey Piffler changes the lives of a gang of murderous children simply through [...]

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Film Review: Attack The Block

by Justrestingmyeyes

Britain’s had a rum old time when it comes to fictional alien invasions. They started early, with steampunk martians getting all up in our Victorian grills before idiotically sneezing themselves to their constituent pieces in War Of The Worlds. We had a bit of respite in the ’50s as the fashion in the alien travel [...]

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Belated Easter Film Review – Hop

by Paul Pencott

We hope you all enjoyed Easter. But if you had to sit through the massively dispiriting ‘Hop’ you probably haven’t. We here at hecklerspray hate Russell Brand as much as the next man. We despise the huge gummy gap between his teeth and his top lip, we hate his misguided belief that ex-junkies are interesting [...]

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