Ben Child

London

Freelance Writer at The Guardian

Film Critic and Writer at Freelance

Film critic and blogger. The Guardian's Week in Geek column and now on Yahoo! https://t.co/HjWJWNpqrF

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a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

6 days ago | msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

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Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.
The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?

1 week ago | msn.com | Ben Child

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The original Star Wars is back - but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

Cast your mind back, lightsaber-wielding relics of a certain age, to the first time you saw the 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars. Was it in a cinema, surrounded by gaggles of wide-eyed space cadets astounded by this glittering, laser-blasted disco ball? Or perhaps on a VHS recorded off ITV’s small-screen premiere in 1982?
will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Child

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Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

Pixar’s film-makers are famously asked to pitch three unique ideas when proposing new projects. In terms of Elio, unique is very much the operative word.
a doomed character pile-up or a masterstroke-in-waiting?

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Child

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a doomed character pile-up or a masterstroke-in-waiting?

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Child

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Avengers: Doomsday: a doomed character pile-up or a masterstroke-in-waiting?

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

Marvel’s big cast reveal for Avengers: Doomsday earlier this week was like something out of an avant garde endurance piece curated by Andy Warhol, a five-hour extended live stream during which a row of empty director’s chairs stood solemnly under the harsh glare of studio lighting.
Is Hollywood really going to ditch the anti-fascist satire in its Starship Troopers remake?

1 month ago | msn.com | Ben Child

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