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The overwhelming overreaction to Zack Snyder’s Justice League

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Anghus Houvouras on Zack Snyder’s Justice League… Pigs are flying. Hell has frozen over. Dogs and cats living together…. MASS HYSTERIA. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is actually going to happen. The legendary ‘Snyder Cut‘ will be released in 2021 courtesy of HBO Max. Once thought to be nothing more than a fever dream fuelled by […]

The Legacy of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40 Years Later

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Ricky Church on the legacy of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back… When Star Wars was released in the summer of 1977, it changed the face of cinema as audiences knew it with George Lucas’ sci-fi take on the fantasy genre, its imaginative world and brand new special effects. The film went on to […]

Sorry Tarantino, Netflix’s Hollywood Is How You Do Revisionist History

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EJ Moreno on Netflix’s Hollywood and how to correctly rewrite cinematic history… BEWARE: Spoilers for Hollywood follow. For our spoiler free thoughts, watch the video review here… If you had the chance to go back in time and change the world to your vision, would you? That’s the question Ryan Murphy and company asked themselves […]

Kingdom of Heaven at 15: Mediocre historical epic or compelling 21st Century comment?

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With Kingdom of Heaven turning 15 this week, George Nash looks at how Ridley Scott’s underrated epic remains an important examination of 21st Century religious and international relations… Like the plight of Jerusalem’s dwindling forces as they struggle to hold off a 200,000-strong Muslim army during the film’s final third, Kingdom of Heaven was fighting […]

Extreme Cinema – Pieces (1982)

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Pieces, 1982. Directed by Juan Piquer Simón. Starring Ian Sera, Christopher George, Frank Braña, and Lynda Day George. SYNOPSIS: Young girls find themselves brutally hacked to pieces when a chainsaw killer strikes an American university campus. The tagline for Pieces – ‘You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!’ – should suitably […]

What Happened To Alex Proyas?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career, rise and fall of Alex Proyas… Born to Greek parents in Egypt and subsequently raised in Australia, you could say that Alex Proyas has an interesting background. He started, as a lot of film directors have, in music videos (working with the likes of INXS and Sting). To many […]

In Defence of the Star Wars Prequels: Are they really that bad?

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Ricky Church with a defence of the Star Wars prequels… To say that the Star Wars prequels are controversial would be an understatement. Leading up to May 19, 1999 fans young and old alike were very excited for The Phantom Menace only to be disappointed with what director George Lucas had delivered. As the trilogy […]

I Don’t Get It: The Films We’re Supposed To Love But Don’t

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Tom Jolliffe looks at when films receive almost universal praise from critics and audiences, and an expectation that you should also love them. It’s not always the case… The year is 2001. At this point I’ve already seen a few David Lynch films. I’d never (still haven’t) got round to Twin Peaks. I sort of […]