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More Ben Affleck done with Batman talk, Daniel Craig back as Bond, Infinity War “biggest movie” ever made and more – Daily News Roundup

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AFFLECK SPEAKPrior to San Diego Comic Con, there was a rumour that Ben Affleck would be stepping down as The Dark Knight, promoting the star himself to respond and say he’s staying on with DC as Batman. Well, his brother Casey Affleck has had a few words about the subject – albeit in a joking […]

George Lucas still involved in Star Wars, new Captain Marvel writer, Samuel L. Jackson offers MCU update – Daily News Roundup

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LUCAS STILL INVOLVED IN STAR WARS?It has been reported many times that since George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, the man who created Star Wars has had very little involvement in the rebooted franchise. He did offer a potential storyline for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but nothing he suggested was ever used. In a […]

Guardians of the Galaxy alternate post-credits scene, SpiderVerse rumours, Deadpool 2 tragedy and more – Daily News Roundup

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I AM TEEN GROOTGoing by the fan reaction, everyone seemed to enjoy all six of the post-credit sequences from James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and now Marvel Studios have shared an alternate version of one of the most popular ones. In the original scene, Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord enters into the room of […]

The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Belly of the Beast’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Strain season 4…Solid character scenes, period drama flashbacks and a moment or two of hard-core hand to hand atop moving vehicles, make this mid-season waypoint one of the best thus far. Moody camera colourisation and moments of a blossoming relationship in Edwardian London, hark back to Coppola’s […]

Movie Review – Anti Matter (2016)

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Anti Matter, 2016.Written and Directed by Keir Burrows. Starring Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson, Tom Barber-Duffy, and Noah Maxwell Clarke.SYNOPSIS:Ana, an Oxford PhD student finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who – […]

Blu-ray Review – Ronin (1998)

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Ronin, 1998.Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, and Skipp Sudduth.SYNOPSIS:A group of mercenaries are hired by Irish terrorists to retrieve a case to stop it falling into Russian hands.In case you didn’t know, ronin are Samurai warriors whose masters have been killed, […]

The Cinematic Universe Fascination: A Bigger Picture Obsession

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Tom Jolliffe on Hollywood’s fascination with the shared cinematic universe… Marketing, labelling, packaging. It’s everywhere. In cinematic terms it’s more important than ever. Everything is governed by men with clipboards. Or the modern equivalent. I suppose it’s all tablets now. I’m a cave dwelling Cro-Magnon man, so I wouldn’t know but there’s an inherent need […]

Video Game Review – Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 (PS4)

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Luke Owen reviews Mega Man Legacy Collection 2…Mega Man Legacy Collection was a great round-up of the original NES line-up of games, a series that was constantly improving itself by adding in new features to keep it fresh and original. Although the formula grew stale by the time you got to Mega Man 6, the […]