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Leonard Nimoy sings ‘The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins’

Compared with the attention paid to the more well-known attempts by his Star Trek co-star William Shatner to forge some kind of musical career (through the medium of proclaiming songs, rather than by singing them), Leonard Nimoy’s pop sensibilities have been all but overlooked. Hearing this trippy 1960s tribute to the diminutive hero of The … >

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‘House’ in seven minutes

If you’ve never seen House, this video is filled with more spoilers than the good doctor’s medicine cabinet used to be overloaded with painkillers, but it’s still worth watching – just to get a flavour of what you’ve been missing. For fans still lamenting the end of the greatest medical drama to grace the airwaves, … >

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James Brolin screen tests for James Bond

Although the concept of having an actor from outside England play the quintessentially English James Bond has been pretty much de rigueur since the beginning of the film series (there have been Scottish, Australian and Irish Bonds, although not really a Welsh one, as Alan Partridge once claimed; Timothy Dalton might have been born in … >

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The 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time

Cinema has always been in love with violence; the two have been in an abusive relationship since the first fistfight was committed to celluloid. Yet despite the zillion gory bloodbaths and punch-ups littering Hollywood’s history, few have ever been as memorable as the threats which preceded them. Here are 99 of the best (and Buford … >

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‘Batman Forever’ recut by Christopher Nolan

Batman Forever was the weediest of the 1990s Batman movies – and ergo the worst entry in the Caped Crusader’s celluloid chronology. It wasn’t as dark and moody as the two Tim Burton films or Christopher Nolan’s greyscale trilogy of gloom, and it wasn’t a camp, so-bad-it’s-funny rubber fetish fest like Batman & Robin, which … >

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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ vs. ‘My Little Pony’

Dodgy mash-up ahoy! What do you get if you combine the cutesy, harmless innocence of the merchandise-opportunistic equine chums from My Little Pony and the massively-overexposed main trailer from violent gloom-fest The Dark Knight Rises? You get Rainbow Dash as Batman, Scootaloo as Alfred, Discord as Bane and a headache at the wrongness of it … >

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