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The Importance of Film Archives and Curated Selections

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the importance of archiving seminal films, and giving new life to forgotten classics and cult titles…. Cinema history is etched with key figures. Mould breakers, revolutionaries, and visionaries. Fritz Lang, leading the German expressionist era. Orson Welles breaking tradition and Hollywood protocols. Maybe Brando thundering an arrow through the conventions of […]

Ranking Every Netflix Marvel Season from Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks every Marvel season from Netflix leading up to Daredevil season 3… Since the release of Daredevil season 1 in 2015, Marvel and Netflix have teamed up to give us a combined total of 10 shows, including one crossover series, The Defenders. While the quality of the shows has somewhat dwindled over the […]

The Cult of Cults in Movies

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s preoccupation with Cults…  Minor Spoilers Follow… Film has always had a fascination with the odd. It delights in the macabre, the outsiders, and in portraying the sects who lurk off the grid, away from the rest of us. There was a particular shift toward the idea of cults especially after […]

4 Hopes for Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3

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Samuel Brace with four hopes for Marvel’s Daredevil season 3… Daredevil season three is nearly upon us, arriving to Netflix in just one week’s time after what feels like far too long away from our screens. Daredevil, ever since its arrival to the platform has been the strongest Marvel offering present, only coming close to […]

Hollywood’s Unhealthy Obsession With Movie Ratings Needs to End

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Harrison Abbott on Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with movie ratings and why it has to end… From a sanitised Die Hard sequel to an R-rated Star Trek, when it comes to ratings Hollywood is incapable of leaving well enough alone. The Dark Age of PG-13-ification Alien Vs Predator, The Expendables 3, World War Z, Max Payne, […]

The first episode of Titans puts DC Universe well above The CW’s Arrowverse

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EJ Moreno on the new DC Universe series Titans… Titans does what many other DC properties struggle with; finding the right balance between the cheesiness and the darkness that the comic company is infamous for having. While The CW’s Arrowverse feels like a live-action cheesy Super Friends, and the Nolan/Snyder pieces are these darker mature films, […]

Ranking The Best American Horror Story Characters

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EJ Moreno on American Horror Story’s best characters… If any show prides itself on having memorable characters, American Horror Story will take that crown. The anthology show switches out characters and stories each season, delivering iconic heroes and villains as much as they do shocking storylines. One of the more exciting factors though is some […]

Why Venom Should Get a Sequel

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George Chrysostomou wants to see a sequel to Venom… Critics and fans are once again divided around a film in 2018. We’ve already witnessed the high and lows of this new phase of apparent out of touch reviewers, with The Last Jedi receiving fan backlash whilst The Greatest Showman is poured over by the general public. Venom seems to be […]

Will The Mandalorian be the start of great things to come for Disney’s Star Wars?

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Samuel Brace on The Mandalorian and what it might signify for the future of Star Wars… Star Wars in 2018 has found itself existing in a strange old state of affairs. Of course, the die-hards, those enamoured with this world, with these characters, and the entire saga until this point, most of these people have […]