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Faster & Furiously: How Vin & the Family Owe an 80s & 90s Debt

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Tony Black on how Fast & Furious owes a debt to 80s and 90s action movies… You may have avoided the Fast & Furious franchise. I did, for ages. To me it was nothing more than ‘car porn’, full of slick machismo, bad dialogue and poorer plot choices. 2008’s semi-reboot Fast & Furious began a […]

Cable gets cast in Deadpool 2, Del Toro directing a Star Wars movie, Hela in Avengers: Infinity War and more – Daily News Roundup

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BROLIN 4 CABLE After weeks and weeks and weeks of speculation, it has finally been revealed who will play Cable in the upcoming Deadpool 2, which sees Ryan Reynolds reprise his role as the Merc With a Mouth. Was it Pierce Brosnan? Was it Michael Shannon? Was it Brad Pitt? Was it that guy from […]

Does knowing too much about a film ruin your enjoyment?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether knowing too much about a film can ruin your enjoyment… There are still people who decide what movie they’re going to see in the span of time it takes between arriving at the theater and purchasing a ticket. Carefree film fans who are somehow able to miss (or purposefully avoid) the […]

Exclusive Interview with Follow the Money writer Jeppe Gjervig Gram

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Paul Risker chats with Follow the Money writer Jeppe Gjervig Gram… “Back when we did Borgen everyone told us that it would not be possible to take boring Danish coalition politics and make it into a drama – it couldn’t be done” remembers series writer Jeppe Gjervig Gram. From the drama of Danish politics that […]

The Flickering Myth reaction to the first Thor: Ragnarok trailer

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The Flickering Myth team react… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Justice League, War of the Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Blade Runner 2049, Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, Logan, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and more Out of nowhere, Marvel and Disney dropped the first trailer for Thor: […]

Critical Thinking: Reviewing Content in the Digital Age

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Anghus Houvouras on reviewing content in the digital age… I was in a discussion with a friend regarding Rick and Morty; a show I love more than just about any piece of produced content in the 21st century. My friend gave the show a go but decided that he, and I quote, ‘just didn’t get […]

Exclusive Interview with Julia Ducournau, director of Raw

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Thomas Harris chats with Raw director Julia Ducournau… There’s currently an unprecedented buzz around Julia Ducournau’s feminist, cannibal-come-coming-of-age horror, Raw. It helps in part that during its debut screening at Toronto film festival last year, it was met by audience members fainting, vomiting and a collective sea of shock gasps. Rather proudly, I was not one […]

Raising Caine: Sir Michael Going On In Style

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Tony Black on screen legend Michael Caine… His recent political leanings aside, Sir Michael Caine remains one of the surviving legends of British and indeed American cinema of the last fifty years, and this weekend’s Going in Style–a heist caper directed by none other than Scrubs‘ Zach Braff–sees him share top billing with fellow aged […]

The Week in Star Wars – Leia confirmed for Episode IX, The Last Jedi details, Obi-Wan spin-off and more

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The Week in Star Wars is back with news on Carrie Fisher in Episode IX, details on The Last Jedi, a possible Obi-Wan movie and more… Following her tragic passing last December, there has been a lot of talk and speculation about the involvement of Carrie Fisher’s Leia Organa in Episode IX. We already know […]