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A Little Bit Of Love For Tom Cruise

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Tom Jolliffe shows his appreciation for Tom Cruise on the actor’s 57th birthday… Approaching 40 years in the industry. Tom Cruise has spent over 30 of those as a superstar. He’s been a box office behemoth. A star turn, a headliner and a poster boy for blockbuster pulling power. He’s also been maligned and dismissed. […]

Is Quentin Tarantino about to tear down Hollywood?

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Cameron Frew speculates on the upcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from director Quentin Tarantino…  “Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.” This incendiary quote from the director himself perfectly sums up the swaggering […]

The B to Z of Movies: How B Movies Ruled the Cinema

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In this short series of features, Tom Jolliffe will look at the humble B Movie and everything below. From the golden period of B cinema, to the rise in popularity of the B picture, to the underground mavericks making films on a shoe string from the 50’s right up to the present. To begin with, […]

5 Xbox Game Pass Games You Should Be Playing

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Despite all the criticism Microsoft has been getting for its lack of exclusives this generation, the Xbox One continues to boast one strong feature over its competition: the Xbox Game Pass. Described by Forbes as the “Netflix for Video Games,” Game Pass has over 250 titles from past generations of Microsoft consoles, giving players access […]

In Defense of Fox’s X-Men Franchise

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EJ Moreno looks back on Fox’s X-Men franchise… During the start of the Fox/Disney merger, the Internet took a sharp turn when it came to discussing the X-Men films. While it was never universally loved, the long-running comic book series never had such negativity surrounding it. With many fans wanting to see these characters find […]

Do Kaiju movies need human characters?

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Anghus Houvouras on kaiju movies and whether they need human characters… I love a good monster movie. They can, on occasion, still produce some of the childhood joy of watching massive creatures stomping on skyscrapers and battling one another to determine hierarchical dominance. All Kaiju movies deal with the same problem: the movie has to […]

After the Endgame: Can Marvel Studios Do It Again?

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the MCU’s success to this point, and wonders whether they can repeat the formula again… So the dust has settled. A whole slow building 11 year phase of Marvel films (it’s had splits in among those, but everything stems all the way back to Tony Stark’s first outing). Attempting to […]

Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame – A Post-Mortem

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Anghus Houvouras delves into Avengers: Endgame (major spoilers follow)… As a writer, there are times where you are genuinely excited to sit down in front of your computer and hammer out a column. When your typing fingers can barely keep up with the thoughts pouring out of your overactive cerebellum. There are others where your […]

Looking Back at the 5 Most Iconic Horror Films of 1999

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Twenty years on, E.J. Moreno looks at the five most iconic horror films of 1999… The horror genre twenty years ago is a much different beast than it is now. Not regarding quality, as there are good and bad films in any year, but the way the studios handle the genre and how viewers digest the […]