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Sugar Coating Hollywood-Style

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Tom Jolliffe on when real life stories are sugar coated in film… A good biopic can be fascinating. There are characters, through TV and print media, biographies, documentaries and more, that we learn the most fascinating things about. Documentaries of course have the goal of showing us (when done right) both sides of a personality, […]

Are the days of the big name headliners disappearing?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at whether the days of the superstar headliner are disappearing with audiences more drawn to franchises or film concepts than the stars attached… You could say it started in Hollywood’s classic era. The movie star. The big name. They were in some ways manufactured, or at least their image was. Rock Hudson […]

The 4 Best Moments from Daredevil Season 3

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Samuel Brace on the four best moments from Daredevil season 3… Hallelujah! Our prayers have been answered. Daredevil finally overcame its most significant of obstacles and transcended to a higher plane of existence. It looks like I can stop complaining about Netflix Marvel shows never having enough storyline to cover their allotment of episodes, as […]

How Marvel is setting up the future of the MCU

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George Chrysostomou on how the future of the MCU is being set up… What was once a pipe dream in the mind of a competent producer has become a unprecedentedly successful shared cinematic universe, tying in movies and TV into a coherent world of characters and locations. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it has come […]

A Beginner’s Guide to Brian De Palma

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Tom Jolliffe begins a series of features focused on iconic directors. Those whose work has influenced many younger directors who have followed them. First up is Brian De Palma… The 70’s saw a group of exceptional directors coming to the forefront of cinema. It’s an era where I could all too easily cover Martin Scorsese, […]

5 iconic villains the Spider-Man PS4 game sets up for a sequel

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Thomas Roach with five villains Insomniac’s Spider-Man sets up for a sequel… Insomniac’s Spider-Man game has received great reviews and is the fastest selling PlayStation 4 exclusive to date. Because of this a sequel is definitely on the books. The first game has done so well setting up the world in which these characters interact […]

The Importance of Film Archives and Curated Selections

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the importance of archiving seminal films, and giving new life to forgotten classics and cult titles…. Cinema history is etched with key figures. Mould breakers, revolutionaries, and visionaries. Fritz Lang, leading the German expressionist era. Orson Welles breaking tradition and Hollywood protocols. Maybe Brando thundering an arrow through the conventions of […]

Ranking Every Netflix Marvel Season from Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks every Marvel season from Netflix leading up to Daredevil season 3… Since the release of Daredevil season 1 in 2015, Marvel and Netflix have teamed up to give us a combined total of 10 shows, including one crossover series, The Defenders. While the quality of the shows has somewhat dwindled over the […]

The Cult of Cults in Movies

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s preoccupation with Cults…  Minor Spoilers Follow… Film has always had a fascination with the odd. It delights in the macabre, the outsiders, and in portraying the sects who lurk off the grid, away from the rest of us. There was a particular shift toward the idea of cults especially after […]