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Gotham creators respond to Arrow name-dropping Bruce Wayne

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A clip of the second episode of Arrow season 6 made its way online showing Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) taking part in a press conference. The question comes up, once again: Is Oliver Queen the infamous Green Arrow? Nonsense. After all, that photo could have been doctored to be anyone, says Queen. Even Bruce Wayne. Interesting… […]

The Snowman director Tomas Alfredson gets very candid about what went wrong with the film

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The film adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman is releasing this week in theaters, and the critical reaction hasn’t been pretty. Our own review had this to say: “How it is a film of this magnitude could fall at every hurdle is to be beholden, and one can only presume Alfredson, in years to come, […]

Kit Harington feels Season 8 is the right time to end Game of Thrones: “I wouldn’t want it to go on any longer than it has”

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It’s been quite a long run for Game of Thrones — the show premiered all the way back in 2011 — and it’s a testament to the shows quality that many fans feel eight seasons is simply not long enough to finish telling the massive story of A Song of Ice and Fire. However, one key […]

Christian Bale really hit Heath Ledger during The Dark Knight’s interrogation scene

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Cut to 2017 and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is still regarded as one of, if not the best comic-book films ever made. The movie transcended the genre in a way that few comic-book films have, and showed that Nolan intended to make good on his promise of creating a Batman film “grounded in reality”. […]

David Fincher thinks that the Marvel Cinematic Universe makes it challenging for directors to tell complex tales

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Seven, and Fight Club director David Fincher has some criticism for the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During an interview with Youtuber Yellow King Film Boy, while talking about his excellent new Netflix series Mindhunter, the conversation swerved to Marvel Studios. As it turns out, Fincher takes some issue with the often light-hearted, and […]

Karl Urban lays out the conditions for suiting up as Judge Dredd once again in Mega-City One

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2012’s Dredd was just one more film — in a long line of films — that received very positive reviews, and tanked at the box-office. As a result, the Dredd film franchise was left dead in the water. However, as luck would have it, a Judge Dredd TV series was announced this summer for (potentially) […]

Luke Evans hesitant to play James Bond after Daniel Craig: “It wouldn’t be an easy thing to do”

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With Bond 25 rumored to be Daniel Craig’s last turn as 007, there has been a lot of talk regarding who could replace him. Several names have popped up over the last year: Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Fassbender, etc. One of the other names thrown into the mix is that of Luke Evans. The […]

Lore actress Kristin Bauer van Straten on the TV show’s traditional approach to horror

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Aaron Mahnke’s Lore podcast started out small, and quickly grew into a wildly popular bi-monthly series. Each episode is a dark history lesson filled with urban myths, with the goal being to find the historical truth in the legends. The show is very informative, and often unsettling. The newly premiered TV show is no different. […]

Luke Evans would like to see his Dracula added to the Dark Universe

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Dracula Untold released in 2014 to middling reviews. Critics seemed to agree that the film wasn’t terrible, but certainly didn’t serve as an adequate franchise-starter, and even less an entryway into a planned “shared universe”. As a result, a sequel wasn’t planned, and Universal confirmed that Dracula Untold would officially be considered “non-canon”, with 2017’s […]