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Why Dirty Sci-Fi Is The Best Sci-Fi

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This week Neil Calloway argues that one thing unites all the best science fiction… Guardians of the Galaxy, the original Star Wars movies, Alien, and Firefly all have something in common. The obvious thing is that they’re all science fiction, but if I was just listing sci-fi surely I’d have included Star Trek, too. They’re […]

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2018

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Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2018… As 2018 draws to a close, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been looking back over another twelve months of cinema to vote on our favourite movies of the year. As always, our writers have shared their personal top ten picks, which we’ve […]

The Top 15 Video Games of 2018

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Shaun Munro on the top 15 video games of 2018… Time sure flies, doesn’t it? It seemed like yesterday that Red Dead Redemption 2 was still forever away and people thought that Bethesda wasn’t capable of releasing one of the year’s worst video games. 2018 has come and gone, then, and following the incredible momentum of 2017, […]

The Best Movie Action Sequences of 2018

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Harrison Abbott on the best movie action sequences of 2018… About a week ago, I wrote an article ranking the Worst Action Sequences of 2018 and the reception to it was contentious to say the least. A few readers apparently emerged from the piece under the impression that I don’t like ‘’fun’’, or that I […]

The Best New TV Shows of 2018

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Samuel Brace on the best new TV shows of 2018… Continuing our countdown to 2018’s end, the next article in our TV ‘best of’ series – following on from the ‘best TV moments of 2018’ and ‘best TV characters of 2018’ – focuses on the best new TV shows to come to our screens across […]

The Best TV Characters of 2018

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Samuel Brace on the best TV characters of 2018… Continuing our countdown to 2018’s end, and following on from last week’s roundup of ‘The best TV moments of 2018’, today we are going to dive into the best characters that have populated the small screen this calendar year, highlighting a selection of vibrant, complex characters […]

The Millennium Films Problem

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the output and upcoming slate of Millennium Films… For around 20 years now, Millennium – which spawned off as a theatrical venture from their lucrative straight to video production company Nu Image (which produced countless action and horror pics in Africa, and then more prominently, Bulgaria) – has been producing mid-budget […]

A Beginner’s Guide To Sam Raimi

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Tom Jolliffe continues our series of beginner’s guides to directors with a look at Sam Raimi… After a recent re-watching of the two films which brought Sam Raimi to fame (the first two Evil Dead films) I felt compelled to provide a beginner’s guide on the man. Raimi remains a director who has become a […]

Commander-in-Chief: The Top 10 Fictional US Presidents

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Cameron Frew on the top 10 fictional US presidents… Adam McKay’s take on the cataclysmic career of former Vice President to George Dubya Bush, Dick Cheney, in Vice, arrives in U.S. theaters today. The Presidency is a reoccurring casting across film; sometimes they’re biopic or factual works, which often give way to some fabulous performances […]