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Thirty Years of Top Gun

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Thirty years after its first release, Neil Calloway takes a look at Top Gun… Thirty years ago this week – 16th May 1986, to be precise, Top Gun was released and pop culture was changed forever. With the possible exclusion of films where Spielberg and Lucas were involved, it is arguably the most iconic film […]

The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse reviewed, Civil War tops Deadpool, Justice League rumours, Affleck unhappy with Batman v Superman, Booster Gold in development, Agent Carter cancelled, Supergirl renewed, new DC shows announced, Fox “committed to trying again” with Fantastic Four and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Gambit, Wolverine 3, Deadpool, Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Agent Carter, Marvel’s Most Wanted, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Jessica Jones, The Defenders, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Green Lantern Corps, […]

The ABC’s of Death: Does the network’s cull spell trouble for Marvel?

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In one of the biggest TV culls of recent memory, ABC today cut a veritable swathe through some of its most well known and long-running material, cancelling a raft of shows with a built-in pedigree and audience. Castle is one of the most prominent, a Steven J. Cannell-esque procedural detective show that has seen the […]

Interview: A conversation with TV and comic scriptwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns

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Kat Kourbeti interviews Krysty Wilson-Cairns, writer of Penny Dreadful #1… BEWARE: There is a spoiler for the ending of Penny Dreadful #1 towards the end of the interview! Kat Kourbeti: How did this comic adaptation come to be? Krysty Wilson-Cairns: I believed Titan had approached Showtime about a Penny Dreadful comic, and when we in the Penny […]

Assassin’s Creed Trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth team reacts… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Doctor Strange, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad, Ghostbusters and more With a flood of movie news coming in (Just Cause, Centipede and Missile Command and Splinter Cell to name but a few), it’s easy to forget […]

Marvel Studios: The Movie Villain?

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Henry Bevan on whether the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is having a negative effect on cinema… We are in the middle of the superhero smorgasbord that is 2016. Three down, three to go. Captain America: Civil War has been a huge success and that is a problem. The more successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe […]

Interview: Everybody Wants Some!! star Tyler Hoechlin talks Richard Linklater, working with Tom Hanks and Fifty Shades sequels

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This Friday sees the long-awaited release of Everybody Wants Some!! [read our ★★★★★ review here] the new film from acclaimed writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before trilogy). Promoted as the “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, the new film charts the lives of a group of college baseball players navigate their way through […]

MIB 23: How the most unlikely movie mash-up came to be

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Tony Black on the Jump Street and Men in Black crossover MIB 23… Remember the big Sony leak at the end of 2014? The one that made everyone panic about that really rather rubbish North Korea-baiting Rogen/Franco comedy? Well aside from the news that Spider-Man might end up coming back to the MCU (and arguably […]

Free Critics From Disney (Or How I Should Learn to Stop Worrying About Marvel)

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Tony Black on the conspiracy theory that Disney is paying critics to attack non-Marvel superhero movies… In what could be the most ludicrous movie news this year, and possibly the most ridiculous Change.org petition yet, a group of frustrated fans appear to have fired the first salvo in a war against critics they believe Disney […]