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68 h. ago How to take the whole family to the cinema for £1.18 each this Easter bank holiday

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5 d. ago Cinema chaos as kids bring actual chickens into Minecraft Movie screenings

The latest Box Office hit, The Minecraft Movie, has sparked a bizarre social media trend – which one teen took to another level by bringing live animals into the cinema

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6 d. ago There’s a place for audience participation, but ‘chicken jockey’ chaos takes it too far | Kate Maltby

Barrages of popcorn and even live poultry are featuring at screenings of A Minecraft Movie‘Chicken jockey!” If you know what this phrase means, you’re either a preteen boy or have accompanied one to a recent cinema screening of A Minecraft Movie.Warner Bros’ latest money-spinner is a movie adaptation of the Swedish game Minecraft, a prerequisite in the social lives of children between the age of eight and 12. The game enables children to explore and reconfigure a creative digital environment, accumulating resources in a world built from blocks. The movie enables children to explore and reconfigure the codes of basic decency in a cinema environment, testing the limits of any hapless usher left to supervise. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Minecraft Movie causing chaos in UK cinemas as fights break out and food flung

A Minecraft Movie has seen teenagers attend screenings and engage in a bizarre social media trend, which has left some cinema workers wanting to quit due to the disruption

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8 d. ago Minecraft movie mayhem: UK Cinemas threaten to pull film as 'Chicken Jockey' trend triggers fighting and screaming during screenings

Cinemas around the UK have issued warnings to viewers of A Minecraft Movie after chaotic scenes from inside screenings circulated on TikTok thanks to a bizarre trend.

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8 d. ago Nuclear pests, Hockney’s best and dozens of swimming tortoises – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?The Thursday quiz has taken a brief respite from shouting “chicken jockey” and throwing popcorn at fellow cinemagoers, giving it just long enough to cobble together today’s offering between screenings of the Minecraft movie. Silently waiting for you, like a creeper about to blow up your base, you will find 15 questions that veer from the topical, to general knowledge, to pop culture and back. There are no prizes, but we always love to hear how you’ve got on in the comments.The Thursday quiz, No 205 Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Greater Manchester cinemas to host special Minecraft screenings after ‘disruptive’ TikTok trend

Fans have still be advised about making a mess during the 'just good fun' screenings

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9 d. ago Cinemas threaten Minecraft Movie audiences over ‘chicken jockey’ TikTok trend

Incidents reported in the UK and US of cheering, shouting and throwing popcorn during screenings of hit film have prompted cautions to audiencesCinemas have warned audience members they will be ejected if they join in with a TikTok trend encouraging filmgoers to disrupt screenings of the hit Minecraft film.Footage has emerged on social media of audiences cheering, throwing popcorn and shouting out during the film, particularly during a scene where one of the film’s stars, Jack Black, calls out “Chicken jockey!” at the appearance of a baby zombie riding a chicken. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Shacklewell Arms to host special screening of Black Mirror episode filmed on its premises

Season seven kicks off with an episode called Eulogy — and the historic boozer where it was filmed is screening it

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1 week ago Minecraft movie carnage: Screenings descend into chaos with fights breaking out, police called and cinemas covered in vomit and popcorn

Loved by gamers, dreaded by parents, derided by critics: for the most part, the noise surrounding A Minecraft Movie has been predictable. But a viral TikTok trend has caused bedlam in cinemas.

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1 week ago Cinema warns 'the police will be called' as Minecraft movie showings hit by TikTok trend

The film's popularity has spread on social media platforms with groups of young viewers seen shouting and screaming

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1 week ago Minecraft warning issued by cinema as police are called to ‘disruptive’ screenings

Police have been called to screenings across the world as one cinema warned chaos ‘will not be tolerated’

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1 week ago Cinema issues Minecraft warning as police are called to ‘disruptive’ screenings

Police have been called to screenings across the world as one cinema warned chaos ‘will not be tolerated’

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1 week ago A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-inIt’s a curious choice of title. A Minecraft Movie implies that this cynical intellectual property-rinsing exercise is one of numerous film adaptations of the enduringly popular sandbox video game. Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. What becomes clear is that one of the key elements in the game’s popularity – the latitude it affords gamers to create their own experience – is a big stumbling block for any film adaptation of Minecraft.In the absence of a single fixed storyline the screenplay can follow, A Minecraft Movie has a cobbled-together feel, borrowing a device from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – and, in Jack Black, a star – and superimposing an all-purpose quest-for-an-artefact structure o...

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2 w. ago A Minecraft Movie celebrated with astonishingly realistic baking art

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2 w. ago Jack Black, Jason Momoa enter the Minecraft universe as the video game phenom hits the big screen

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3 w. ago Davina McCall to host special Long Lost Family episode dedicated to mother and baby homes scandal

ITV's award-winning show Long Lost Family is set to air another heart-wrenching special as they focus on one of UK's biggest scandals that affected a number of mothers

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