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The Week in Spandex – Justice League set photos, DC’s ‘Invasion!’, John Cena in Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel and X-Men deal “an impossibility” and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Justice League, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Suicide Squad, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Gotham, Superman Lives, Justice League Action, The LEGO Batman Movie, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Carnage, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Agents […]

The Week in Spandex – Justice League casting and rumours, Deadpool 2 finds a director, Fox and Marvel work out a swap deal, The Inhumans head to TV and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Green Lantern Corps, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dr. Mirage, Gotham, Justice League Dark, The LEGO Batman Movie, Deadpool 2, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, […]

The Week in Star Wars – Episode VIII character details, Rogue One advance tickets, Game of Thrones star joins Han Solo, new LEGO sets revealed

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It’s a packed edition of The Week in Star Wars as we’ve got some possible character details for Star Wars: Episode VIII, a rumour about the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer, loads of new posters and featurettes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and more… We’ll kick things off this week with Star Wars: Episode VIII. […]

The Week in Star Wars – Everything you need to know about Lord and Miller, Ron Howard and Han Solo

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It’s a special edition of The Week in Star Wars following the shock news from the Han Solo spin-off movie, along with some bits from The Last Jedi, Episode IX and more… Before we kick things off, The Week in Star Wars celebrated it’s second birthday this week. Thanks to everyone who has read any […]

Top 10 Films of 2017 (So Far)

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The Flickering Myth team vote… July marks the second half of 2017, can you believe it’s been half a year already? We’ve seen so much already! Audiences have been wowed by the movies approved by the Academy, Beauty and the Beast earned $1 billion, we’ve seen Fate of the Furious push the franchise to whole […]

Lord and Miller: 12 other directors who left/got fired from movies during production

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Luke Owen looks at directors who left/got fired from movies during production… With the shocking news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller have vacated the director’s chairs for the yet-to-be-titled Han Solo movie over “creative differences” (some sources say they were forced out), I thought it was time to look at some other directors who […]

Michael Bay is a disgusting, deplorable director – and he should be ashamed of himself

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Luke Owen is not a fan of Michael Bay and his Transformers movies… Last night I was unfortunate enough to stumble upon a film I’ve not seen in nearly a decade. It’s an epic failure of a movie, an odious mess of horribly-shot action, gross depictions of women, bizarrely-placed racism and woefully bad writing. The […]

It’s time for us to admit that Batman ’66 was awesome

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Luke Owen with some thoughts about Batman ’66… Following the tragic passing of Adam West over the weekend I’ve been thinking a lot about Batman ’66, the TV show that entertained millions of children at the tail-end of the swingin’ sixties. Like many, it was my introduction to the character, and it genuinely might be […]

We need to talk about the disappointing Wonder Woman box office tracking

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Luke Owen on the box office tracking for Wonder Woman… Last month it was reported that Wonder Woman, the latest entry in the struggling DCEU, was tracking around $83 million. While not a complete disaster, it really wasn’t a great number when compared to its contemporaries. However a new report yesterday stated it was more […]