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David Lewis

A bad lip-reading of ‘Twilight’

The geniuses at Bad Lip Reading have been hilariously mocking politicians for ages by redubbing their speeches and campaign advertisements. Now, they’ve turned their attention to the Twilight franchise – and have finally produced a clip from the tedious vampire saga that’s worth watching…

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‘Community’ presents: ‘Inspector Spacetime’

Community‘s Abed instantly falls in love with Inspector Spacetime – a British science-fiction TV programme that’s been on the air since the early sixties, featuring a time-travelling telephone box. There’s something very familiar about all this…

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The Muppets sing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Twenty years on from the death of Freddie Mercury, this pomp-rock-mock-opera-warblefest remains Queen’s most enduring and well-known hit. Yet even during the days when the band attended parties featuring dwarves peddling cocaine from bowls attached to their heads (allegedly), they couldn’t possibly have envisaged this superb interpretation from Jim Henson’s legendary puppets. Even the video … >

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Polish Spider-Man

Contrary to popular belief, Spider-Man isn’t a nocturnal, gawkily cocky Twilight-y teen played by Andrew Garfield or an uptight, Dunst-fancying undergraduate who looks like Tobey Maguire under his mask; he’s a laidback dude from Poland with a silly string surplus – and he’s a genius…

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‘Doctor Who’ review: ‘Asylum of the Daleks’

Let’s be brutally honest for a moment. The Daleks may have been the most terrifying monsters on telly once upon a time – back in the 1960s or 1970s, say – but since Doctor Who was revived in 2005, they’ve mostly been… well, a bit rubbish. 2005’s ‘Dalek’, in which Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper … >

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‘Dragnet’ music video: ‘City of Crime’

Back in 1987, Dan Ackroyd and a fresh-faced Tom Hanks starred in a big-screen, comedic adaptation of the 1950s US cop TV show, Dragnet. Whether the film is a slice of genius or otherwise, we couldn’t say (we borrowed the DVD from our friend Laura three years ago and never watched it, sadly) but one … >

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