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Wolverine 3 now titled Logan and won’t be a “city-block destroying, CG f***athon”

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We’ve heard several rumours for the title of Wolverine 3 from Weapon X to The Death of Logan, but the film’s director and star have taken to Twitter to share a new poster for the movie which confirms the title as Logan.Check out the tweets below: 3-3-17 pic.twitter.com/43M6utakTQ — Mangold (@mang0ld) October 5, 2016 LOGAN […]

Rumour: Details on Sharon Stone and Sylvester Stallone’s roles in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 and how they connect to Thor: Ragnarok

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While we know that Kurt Russell will be playing Ego the Living Planet in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we still don’t know what role Sylvester Stallone will be playing in the film. But the chaps over at Schmoes Know claim they’ve got the inside track on where he’ll feature alongside Sharon […]

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn says he “enjoyed” Man of Steel

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It’s a movie that didn’t get a great reception when it was first released, and is looked back upon even less kindly with hindsight, but Man of Steel does have its fans – and Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn is one of them.During a conversation on Twitter last night, someone asked how Gunn […]

Rumour: Star-Lord will be a “major player” in Avengers: Infinity War

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Warning: possible spoilers below…It was confirmed a little while ago by Vin Diesel that the Guardians of the Galaxy will be appearing in Avengers: Infinity War as many had speculated, but we didn’t know just how much involvement they’d have considering the huge cast of characters. Well according to the chaps at Schmoes Know, one […]

The world record speedrun for Super Mario Bros. has been beaten – by 0.05 seconds!

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Although it was released in 1985, competition for Super Mario Bros. supremacy still wages on with gamers, and a new world record has been set.A gamer under the name Kosmic claimed on Friday that he’d broken the record held by Darbian of 4 minutes and 57.244 seconds, but then retracted his claim when he noticed […]

The Universal Soldier film that foreshadows Donald Trump’s rise to power

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Tom Jolliffe on the Universal Soldier film that foreshadows Donald Trump’s rise to power… In case you haven’t noticed there’s an election race going on in America right now. Megalomaniacal business mogul, Donald Trump is head to head with former First Lady, Hillary Clinton. As for the general movie going public, I’d wager only a […]

The Week in Star Wars – Force Friday toy images, Warwick Davis set for Episode VIII, more Star Wars films confirmed

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Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars sees LOADS of promotional images from toys being released from Force Friday, a returning actor from the original trilogy, more Star Wars films on the way and more…Let’s kick things off with the latest updates from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and thanks to the folks […]

Second Opinion – Free State of Jones (2016)

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Free State Of Jones, 2016. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Christopher Berry, Bill Tangradi and Keri Russell. SYNOPSIS: A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government. Free State of Jones […]

Why is everyone so upset about the live-action Lion King remake?

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Luke Owen looks at the backlash to Disney’s live-action Lion King remake…Since Tim Burton re-imagined Alice in Wonderland in a live-action format in 2010 to an incredible box office return (the film earned over $1 billion), Disney have their new mission statement: re-telling animated classics for a new generation in live-action. This success continued with 2014’s Maleficent […]