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Tom Hiddleston

Crimson Peak movie review: humorous gruesome

Thu, Oct 15, 2015
12 comments

A deliciously creepy haunted-house story. Oozes eldritch atmosphere yet plays with our genre expectations in ways that make it as funny as it is scary.

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Only Lovers Left Alive movie review: full-blooded

Thu, May 15, 2014
47 comments

I want to crawl inside this movie and curl up in its lap and stay there forever. This movie is so languid and so uncoerced. I want to keep it a secret and let everyone know about it at the same time.

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Tom Hiddleston, if someone were clever enough to cast him as Buckaroo Banzai

Mon, Feb 03, 2014
2 comments

It’s long past time for a reboot or a sequel. Let’s do it!

| 2 Comments

best British cats (Benedict Cumbercat, Tom Kittenston, etc)

Sun, Jan 19, 2014
2 comments

So deeply adorable.

| 2 Comments

2014 preview: only movies left underived

Wed, Jan 15, 2014
1 comment

Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.

| 1 Comment

Only Lovers Left Alive trailer: maybe we aren’t “supposed” to be talking about this?

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
6 comments

Someone appears to believe they can control the dialogue about this film. Too late! People are already talking about it.

| 6 Comments

Thor: The Dark World review: Viking with a chance of wormholes

Thu, Oct 31, 2013
23 comments

Think heavy-metal Lord of the Rings. With wormholes. It’s completely mad and kind of awesome.

| 23 Comments

London photo of the day: Tom Hiddleston arrives at London Film Festival premiere

Sun, Oct 20, 2013
1 comment

Honestly. That’s Tom Hiddleston, arriving for the Cult Gala screening of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive.

| 1 Comment

Tom Hiddleston as Owen Wilson as Loki

Fri, Oct 11, 2013
3 comments

Because Tom Hiddleston was not already awesome enough.

| 3 Comments

cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2013
5 comments

I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.

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