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The Cinematic Universe Fascination: A Bigger Picture Obsession

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Tom Jolliffe on Hollywood’s fascination with the shared cinematic universe… Marketing, labelling, packaging. It’s everywhere. In cinematic terms it’s more important than ever. Everything is governed by men with clipboards. Or the modern equivalent. I suppose it’s all tablets now. I’m a cave dwelling Cro-Magnon man, so I wouldn’t know but there’s an inherent need […]

Twin Peaks season 3 is exquisite, but why am I so unenthused by it?

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Samuel Brace on Twin Peaks season 3… Twin Peaks season 3 (The Return) had been something fans of the show, and of David Lynch, were dreaming of for years, and its revival has provided television viewers with some truly incredible moments, and some seriously beautiful filmmaking. But there is something about the resurrected series that […]

Remembering Carrie, the best Stephen King adaptation

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Henry Bevan on Carrie… The camera glides through the girls’ locker room. The girls are in various states of undress; steam from the shower creates a dreamlike quality, shrouding the scene, fogging up the lens. The camera pushes in on Carrie (Sissy Spacek) as she rubs herself with soap. It focuses on various parts of […]

New look at Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel vs. The Hulk, more Twilight and Hunger Games movies and more – Daily News Roundup

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AWW! LOOK AT THE CUTE THING! Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, some brand new images from Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi were revealed yesterday, featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley), Luke (Mark Hamill), Finn (John Boyega), Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Chewbacca and the Ahch-To inhabitants the Porgs and […]

Hellboy cinematic universe, Karl Urban returning as Judge Dredd, Superman in new Justice League promo – Daily News Roundup

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A HELLISH UNIVERSE This should come as no surprise, but there are hopes that Neil Marshall’s big screen reboot of Hellboy could spawn a cinematic universe. “It’s a very loose adaptation of one of the Hellboy graphic novels,” he told The Verge. “When you have more books out there, you have a lot more to […]

First look at Cable in Deadpool 2, Infinity War script, Flashpoint fan art – Daily News Roundup

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GRUMPY UNCLE After sharing our first look at Zazie Beetz as Domino last week, Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter to reveal the first image of Josh Brolin as Cable in Deadpool 2. Check him out here. CANCELLED BOUT Although it drew the biggest box office for both characters, many fans felt let down by 2003’s […]

Why David Mackenzie is the perfect choice to direct Bond 25

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Tom Jolliffe wants to see David Mackenzie directing Bond 25… The latest James Bond instalment has had a degree of uncertainty around it since Spectre hit cinemas two years ago. The target seems to be 2019, and only until recently it seems that momentum is building. In part it seems that Daniel Craig will be […]

Let’s Not Ban A Show Before It’s Made

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Neil Calloway thinks we should wait to see if Confederate is any good… While some of us are intrigued and excited by the news this week that HBO are planning an alternate history series Confederate, which portrays a United States where slavery is still legal, there are others who have taken a different view. A […]