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A World Without Cinema: How Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War are paving the way to Box Office success in Saudi Arabia

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Pim Razenberg on the changes in Saudi Arabia’s cinematic landscape… What was the first movie you ever watched in theatres? Was it a family friendly animated film, or the action-packed blockbuster your father really wanted to see? For me, it was most probably Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1991. At the […]

Why are people crying at the end of Avengers: Infinity War?

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Anghus Houvouras on the end of Avengers: Infinity War (spoilers in the house)… Avengers: Infinity War is a massive, worldwide, expectation-exceeding box office busting phenomenon that has managed to capitalize on 10 years of world building. All the success is a victory lap for what Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have accomplished. This is well-earned […]

Why Avengers: Infinity War is Everything Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wanted to Be

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James Turner looks at the similarities and differences between the two biggest blockbusters of the last twelve months… This piece makes references to the plot of Avengers: Infinity War, but there are no substantial spoilers. For those who didn’t read my review of The Last Jedi, let’s just say I was less than impressed by it. […]

Questioning the Snap: How Thanos caused an extinction-level event and ruined yogurt

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Pim Razenberg on the unconsidered consequences of Thanos’ finger snap… Warning: If you have not seen Avengers: Infinity War and want to avoid spoilers, do not read the following article. Intelligent, calculated and truly righteous in his own beliefs, Thanos snapped his fingers at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, disintegrating half of all life […]

We’ll never see Zack Snyder’s Justice League and I’m angry

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Anghus Houvouras is angry that we’ll never get to see Zack Snyder’s Justice League… The best and worst thing about being an opinion based columnist is that the only requirement to write a column is having a strong opinion about something. For the last month or so, I haven’t. I’ve started a few pieces here […]

Does Avengers: Infinity War Ruin Thor: Ragnarok (and The Hulk)?

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Anghus Houvouras on Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, and The Hulk… I really enjoyed Avengers: Infinity War. Not since the original Avengers have I felt this excited about a Marvel movie as well as the urge to see it multiple times. As someone who had been suffering a case of Marvel movie malaise, this is […]

3 Reasons Why I Was Surprisingly Impressed by Avengers: Infinity War

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Samuel Brace with three reasons why he was surprisingly impressed by Avengers: Infinity War… For someone who has fallen out of love with superhero films in the last few years, for someone who has grown tired of the genre, the formula, the interconnected nature of shared universes, I am more than a little surprised by […]

Does the world really need Bad Boys For Life?

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Tom Jolliffe on whether the world needs another instalment of Bad Boys… I recall a time, in my more youthful days. Die Hard was the greatest film ever (okay…it still probably is). Speed was probably second for a time. Then something happened. Michael Bay happened. He delivered a film that, though it was R rated […]

In A Battle Of Kevin Smith vs James Cameron, Let’s Sit On The Sidelines

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Neil Calloway looks at the seemingly endless debate over comic book movies… You’ll often here talk of a culture war; countries that are divided into red states and blue states, leave or remain. It’s good journalistic shorthand, but in reality people are complex, with a range of tastes and opinions moulded by their unique experiences. […]