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VOD is Beating Cinema, and Maybe, Just Maybe, That’s a Good Thing

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Samuel Brace on the rise of VOD… Sometimes you have to go off the beaten path to find quality films these days. Gone is the time where you could solidly rely on what was top billed at your local cinema to be the cream of the crop. Those days are well and truly over. If you […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #49 – Tetris

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After the adrenaline, wheelie filled world of Enduro Racer we need a come down, and what better game to take with us to our quiet corner than the one resting at Number #49 in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is Alexey Pajitnov’s classic Tetris. Tetris is the game that quite possibly everybody on the […]

Forget The BFG, Spielberg ain’t past it yet…

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Tony Black on what the future holds for Steven Spielberg following the box office disappointment of The BFG… This week, The BFG joined this year’s list of ‘illustrious’ flops, at least in the US where it tanked hard as it released off the back of Indepedence Day: Resurgence and the much more successful Finding Dory. […]

The Week in Spandex – Suicide Squad images galore, Justice League and The Flash casting, Batman’s kill count, Thor: Ragnarok begins filming, Gambit to shoot next year and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Suicide Squad, Justice League, The Flash, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Gotham, Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Batman: The Killing Joke, Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants, LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes – Justice League: Gotham City Breakout, Teen Titans Go!, […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #50 – Enduro Racer

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It’s time to kick our gaming up a gear, leaving the frantic and addictive Robotron in the distance for we’re now bunny-hopping and tearing up the place as we arrive at No.#50 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Dig out the Kick Start theme music and play it at full volume as Enduro Racer has just […]

Terminator 2 at 25: Revisiting Cinema’s Greatest Sequel

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Edward Gardiner revisits Terminator 2: Judgment Day on its 25th anniversary… *Spoilers for the Terminator franchise There was a time, if you remember, when James Cameron wasn’t weirdly obsessed with those funny blue aliens over on Pandora. Back in the early ’90s, when Tarantino was paving his way into Hollywood and Spielberg was bringing dinosaurs back to life, Cameron […]

Exclusive interview with Bed of the Dead actress Alysa King

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Ricky Church chats with Bed of the Dead actress Alysa King… The upcoming horror film Bed of the Dead features two young couples out for night of debauchery at the city’s oldest sex club find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where getting off means suffering a gruesome fate. Upon calling the police they […]

Exclusive interview with Galen Chu, co-director of Ice Age: Collision Course, about the new adventure, Simon Pegg’s return and the franchise’s continued popularity

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This July sees the release of the fifth installment in Blue Sky Studios’ Ice Age franchise, entitled Ice Age: Collison Course. While the film is still in the “final touches” stage, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis was able to not only see some extended footage from the film, but sit down with the film’s co-director […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #51 – Robotron

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From one highly addictive classic to another, we attempt to tear ourselves away from Jumping Jack and load up No. 51 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Robotron will have you swearing so loudly your surrounding neighbours will be picking up a few new colourful words today. Robotron – also known as Robotron 2084 – […]